Nutrition, Health and Wellness

With vast clinical problems persisting in the world today, the role of nutrition for overall health, and prevention and treatment of diseases may sometimes be overlooked.

In this section you will find extensive research on the therapeutic role of diet, including resources for dietary guidelines and nutrition screening & assessment. We also cover requirements and recommendations for food safety, healthy eating, nutrients and hydration.

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NNIW100 Publication
NNIW100 - Shaping The Future with Nutrition

NNIW100 - Shaping The Future with Nutrition

With the theme “Shaping The Future with Nutrition,” NNIW100’s first session looked at current understanding of the fundamentals of maternal and child nutrition, and the different factors that shape an individual’s health and wellbeing such as maternal preconception nutrition, mode of birth, infant nutrition, breastfeeding and human milk research, complementary feeding practices, environmental factors and more. The second session also examined food dietary habits for optimal development, wherein speakers highlighted a strong evidence base for the nutritional approach that supports good health

Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve
Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve

Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve

Zakari Ali
Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security
Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security

Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security

Kevin Chen
Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth (news)
Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth

Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities
NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities (publications)
NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

NNIW91 - Nurturing a Healthy Generation of Children: Research Gaps and Opportunities

Co-Authored by 4 Experts
ASN 2018 - Samuel J. Fomon Award for Young Investigators (news)
ASN 2018 - Samuel J. Fomon Award for Young Investigators

ASN 2018 - Samuel J. Fomon Award for Young Investigators

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies' brain development? (news)
Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies' brain development?

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies' brain development?

Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity (news)
Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity

Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity

Prenatal vitamin D tied to lower risk of underweight babies and birth defects (news)
Prenatal vitamin D tied to lower risk of underweight babies and birth defects

Prenatal vitamin D tied to lower risk of underweight babies and birth defects

NIH-funded study: Fish oil, blueberry may boost cognitive performance (news)
NIH-funded study: Fish oil, blueberry may boost cognitive performance

NIH-funded study: Fish oil, blueberry may boost cognitive performance