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

Regulation of Healthy Growth in Young Humans
The regulation of heathy growth in young humans

The regulation of heathy growth in young humans

Linda Adair
Critical and sensitive periods in child development
Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Critical and sensitive periods in child development

Ahmad Suryawan
Nourishing healthy brain growth and development in young children
Nourishing healthy brain growth and development in young children

Nourishing healthy brain growth and development in young children

Sarah Cusick
Global and secular trends in patterns of child growth
Global and secular trends in patterns of child growth

Global and secular trends in patterns of child growth

Aryeh Stein
Examining the role of environmental exposures on child growth and development
Examining the role of environmental exposures on child growth and development

Examining the role of environmental exposures on child growth and development

Usha Ramakrishnan
Impact of gut microbiome on child musculoskeletal health and development
Impact of gut microbiome on child musculoskeletal health and development

Impact of gut microbiome on child musculoskeletal health and development

Nicolas Bonnet
Future-ready: The importance of nutrition during adolescence
Future-ready: The importance of nutrition during adolescence

Future-ready: The importance of nutrition during adolescence

Hema Divakar
Fetal growth & its impacts on long-term health
Fetal growth & its impacts on long-term health

Fetal growth & its impacts on long-term health

Keith Godfrey