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

Interview with Usha Ramakrishnan: What, when and how young are children fed? (videos)
Interview with Usha Ramakrishnan: What, when and how young are children fed?

Interview with Usha Ramakrishnan: What, when and how young are children fed?

Usha Ramakrishnan
Interview with Lynette Neufeld: What is the global landscape of malnutrition in children? (videos)
Interview with Lynette Neufeld: What is the global landscape of malnutrition in children?

Interview with Lynette Neufeld: What is the global landscape of malnutrition in children?

Lynette M. Neufeld
The WASH Benefits Bangladesh, WASH Benefits Kenya and SHINE Trials:  A summary of their findings (videos)
The WASH Benefits Bangladesh, WASH Benefits Kenya and SHINE Trials: A summary of their findings

The WASH Benefits Bangladesh, WASH Benefits Kenya and SHINE Trials: A summary of their findings

Jean Humphrey
Intergenerational influences on child development: an epigenetic perspective (videos)
Intergenerational influences on child development: an epigenetic perspective

Intergenerational influences on child development: an epigenetic perspective

Matt J. Silver
The Gut Microbiome in Child Malnutrition  (videos)
The Gut Microbiome in Child Malnutrition

The Gut Microbiome in Child Malnutrition

Ruairi C. Robertson
Environmental and physiological barriers to child growth and development (videos)
Environmental and physiological barriers to child growth and development

Environmental and physiological barriers to child growth and development

Andrew Prentice
The Role of Optimized Plant Protein in the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition (videos)
The Role of Optimized Plant Protein in the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition

The Role of Optimized Plant Protein in the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition

Mark Manary
Vegan diet in young children (videos)
Vegan diet in young children

Vegan diet in young children

Pascal Müller