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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Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Feeding Practices in the Introduction of Complementary Feeding and Implications for Future Healthy Eating

Feeding Practices in the Introduction of Complementary Feeding and Implications for Future Healthy Eating

Complementary feeding period begins when human milk or formula alone can no longer meet an infant’s nutritional needs…

Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Biological and Experiential Factors That Impact the Acceptance of Complementary Foods

Biological and Experiential Factors That Impact the Acceptance of Complementary Foods

Annales 74.3 - Human Milk: Lessons from Recent Research (publications)
Prevention of Food Allergy: Harmonizing Perspectives from the East and West

Prevention of Food Allergy: Harmonizing Perspectives from the East and West

Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk (news)
Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk

Modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days of life predict higher adiposity and cardiometabolic risk

Allergy Prevention – Where are we now? (videos)
Allergy Prevention – Where are we now?

Allergy Prevention – Where are we now?

Kent Woo
The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions (videos)
The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions

The Long Search for Evidence Based Nutritional Interventions

Hania Szajewska
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs)

Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be (videos)
Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be

Video Teaser: Dietary Sugars: Not as Sour as they are made out to be

Dennis Bier
Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution?  (videos)
Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution?

Video Teaser: Gut Discomfort in Toddlers: Can Nutrition Bring a Solution?

Yvan Vandenplas
Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood (news)
Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood

Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood

Tackling nutrient inadequacy in toddlers and preschool children. (videos)
Tackling nutrient inadequacy in toddlers and preschool children.

Tackling nutrient inadequacy in toddlers and preschool children.

Tsz-Ning Mak