100th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop - 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, but how in practice there are many challenges to achieving this. The last session looked into research about the food systems and the new challenges that have emerged with the changing times, such as the shift to a more plant-based diet for sustainability, and new food technological advancements.