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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Does fortified whole grain infant cereal (WGIC) complement an infant's nutritional requirements and dietary needs?
Does fortified whole grain infant cereal (WGIC) complement an infant's nutritional requirements and dietary needs?

Does fortified whole grain infant cereal (WGIC) complement an infant's nutritional requirements and dietary needs?

In an interview with NNI at ESPGHAN 2025, Carole Bru of the Product Technology and Development Centre in Switzerland…

Carole Bru
Does the insulin-like growth factor axis influence the lipid profile in toddlers?
Does the insulin-like growth factor axis influence the lipid profile in toddlers?

Does the insulin-like growth factor axis influence the lipid profile in toddlers?

Johanna Neiß
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Early Growth and Impacts on Long-Term Neurodevelopment and Human Capital

Early Growth and Impacts on Long-Term Neurodevelopment and Human Capital

Infant and child nutrition and cognitive development (videos)
Infant and child nutrition and cognitive development

Infant and child nutrition and cognitive development

Wendy Oddy
Microbes, metabolism and autoimmunity (videos)
Microbes, metabolism and autoimmunity

Microbes, metabolism and autoimmunity

Ramnik Xavier
Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans (videos)
Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans

Lipid metabolism in high fructose fed humans

Luc Tappy
Food, health and disease: The evidence and reporting the evidence (videos)
Food, health and disease: The evidence and reporting the evidence

Food, health and disease: The evidence and reporting the evidence

Dennis Bier
Deeper down the rabbit hole of data, analysis, and inference errors and suggestions for digging back out (videos)
Deeper down the rabbit hole of data, analysis, and inference errors and suggestions for digging back out

Deeper down the rabbit hole of data, analysis, and inference errors and suggestions for digging back out

David Allison
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

Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom's breast milk (news)
Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom's breast milk

Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom's breast milk