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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The Relationship Between Nutrition, Brain, Cognition, Learning, and Behavior in School-Age Children: Systematic Evidence and Future Opportunities

The Relationship Between Nutrition, Brain, Cognition, Learning, and Behavior in School-Age Children: Systematic Evidence and Future Opportunities

School age (5–18 years) is a pivotal window for brain and cognitive development, yet nutrition‐related brain and…

Diandra Brkić
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The Importance of Breakfast in School-Aged Children

The Importance of Breakfast in School-Aged Children

Helena Gibson‐Moore
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Nourishing Transformative Changes as Children Grow

Nourishing Transformative Changes as Children Grow

Andrew Prentice
Interview with Viet Grote: Complementary Feeding and Infant Growth - Timing, Composition and Mode of Feeding (videos)
Interview with Viet Grote: Complementary Feeding and Infant Growth - Timing, Composition and Mode of Feeding

Interview with Viet Grote: Complementary Feeding and Infant Growth - Timing, Composition and Mode of Feeding

Interview with Peter Willatts: Effects of Nutrition on the Development of Higher Order Cognition (videos)
Interview with Peter Willatts: Effects of Nutrition on the Development of Higher Order Cognition

Interview with Peter Willatts: Effects of Nutrition on the Development of Higher Order Cognition

Peter Willatts
Interview with Kim Michaelsen: Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes (videos)
Interview with Kim Michaelsen: Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes

Interview with Kim Michaelsen: Breastfeeding, Breast Milk Composition, and Growth Outcomes

Kim F. Michaelsen
Interview with Josef Neu: Dysbiosis in the Neonatal Period: Role of C-Section (videos)
Interview with Josef Neu: Dysbiosis in the Neonatal Period: Role of C-Section

Interview with Josef Neu: Dysbiosis in the Neonatal Period: Role of C-Section

Interview with Sanjay Patole: Microbiota and NEC (videos)
Interview with Sanjay Patole: Microbiota and NEC

Interview with Sanjay Patole: Microbiota and NEC

Sanjay Patole
Interview with Matthias Zilbauer: Epigenetics in the GI Tract during Health and Inflammation (videos)
Interview with Matthias Zilbauer: Epigenetics in the GI Tract during Health and Inflammation

Interview with Matthias Zilbauer: Epigenetics in the GI Tract during Health and Inflammation

Interview with Peter Arner: Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans (videos)
Interview with Peter Arner: Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Interview with Peter Arner: Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Interview with Omry Koren: Microbiome during Pregnancy (videos)
Interview with Omry Koren: Microbiome during Pregnancy

Interview with Omry Koren: Microbiome during Pregnancy