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 - 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
Neural circuits of food intake - is it all about calories? (videos)
Neural circuits of food intake - is it all about calories?

Neural circuits of food intake - is it all about calories?

Harvey J. Grill
Early weight gain in pregnancy correlates with childhood obesity, first study of its size shows (news)
Early weight gain in pregnancy correlates with childhood obesity, first study of its size shows

Early weight gain in pregnancy correlates with childhood obesity, first study of its size shows

How nutrition in early life affects adult bone health (news)
How nutrition in early life affects adult bone health

How nutrition in early life affects adult bone health

Breastfeeding makes children more likely to eat vegetables (news)
Breastfeeding makes children more likely to eat vegetables

Breastfeeding makes children more likely to eat vegetables

Breastfeeding may protect children from asthma exacerbations later in life (news)
Breastfeeding may protect children from asthma exacerbations later in life

Breastfeeding may protect children from asthma exacerbations later in life

Probiotic supplementation heightens breast milk antioxidant levels: RCT (news)
Probiotic supplementation heightens breast milk antioxidant levels: RCT

Probiotic supplementation heightens breast milk antioxidant levels: RCT

Research confirms exercising during pregnancy is good for mother and baby (news)
Research confirms exercising during pregnancy is good for mother and baby

Research confirms exercising during pregnancy is good for mother and baby

Life-saving fruit and vegetable diet need only be three portions (news)
Life-saving fruit and vegetable diet need only be three portions

Life-saving fruit and vegetable diet need only be three portions