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
Gut hormones and nutrition (videos)
Gut hormones and nutrition

Gut hormones and nutrition

Stephen Bloom
Nutrition, metabolic health, cancer and NCDs (videos)
Nutrition, metabolic health, cancer and NCDs

Nutrition, metabolic health, cancer and NCDs

Elio Riboli
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