Growth & Development

Early life events, including nutrition, play a powerful role in programming a person’s development, metabolism and health for the future. This section covers all aspects of the importance of maternal nutrition in the first 1000 days including nutrition in pregnancy, epigenetics, metabolic programming, breastfeeding, growth & cognitive development and a lot more.

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Feeding children with gastrointestinal impairment

Feeding children with GI impairment ESPGHAN 2024

Children with gastrointestinal impairments, including those with neurological diseases, congenital heart disease, short bowel syndrome, neuromuscular disorders, and cancer, often face significant nutritional challenges. Addressing these challenges requires careful consideration of nutritional strategies and enteral formula selection to ensure optimal health outcomes for these vulnerable patient populations. In this NNI Symposium at ESPGHAN 2024, experts Prof. Claudio Romano, Prof. Antonella Diamant, and Dr. Graeme O’Connor, detail these conditions, risks for malnutrition, and the various

Flavia Indrio NNIW101

Gut bone axis: Clinical implications

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
Siddarth Ventakesh

Microbiome-targeted dietary regiments to combat pediatric malnutrition

Sid Venkatesh
Gut bacteria linked to development of Alzheimer’s disease: Mouse data (news)

Gut bacteria linked to development of Alzheimer’s disease: Mouse data

Dementia risk reduced by eating 'five-a-day' (news)

Dementia risk reduced by eating 'five-a-day'

Is your child a fussy eater? The reason could be in their genes (news)

Is your child a fussy eater? The reason could be in their genes

Effect of formula with Lactobacillus on Cesarean-born Infants (news)

Effect of formula with Lactobacillus on Cesarean-born Infants

Complementary feeding for infants - ESPGHAN position paper offers guidance

Complementary feeding for infants - ESPGHAN position paper offers guidance

NNIW40 - Clinical Trials Infant Nutrition (publications)

NNIW40 - Clinical Trials Infant Nutrition

NNIW19 - The Malnourished Child (publications)

NNIW19 - The Malnourished Child

NNIW03 - Nutritional Adaptation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Newborn (publications)

NNIW03 - Nutritional Adaptation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Newborn