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

Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children (news)
Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children

Sugar intake during pregnancy is associated with allergy and allergic asthma in children

Research on active substances in breast milk can begin  (news)
Research on active substances in breast milk can begin

Research on active substances in breast milk can begin

Late teen years are key period for bone growth  (news)
Late teen years are key period for bone growth

Late teen years are key period for bone growth

Interview with Maureen Black: Impact of Nutrition on Growth, Brain and Cognition (videos)
Interview with Maureen Black: Impact of Nutrition on Growth, Brain and Cognition

Interview with Maureen Black: Impact of Nutrition on Growth, Brain and Cognition

Maureen Black
Interview with Ken Ong: Healthy Growth and Development (videos)
Interview with Ken Ong: Healthy Growth and Development

Interview with Ken Ong: Healthy Growth and Development

Evolutionary explanation? Research reveals how gut bacteria adapted to human breast milk  (news)
Evolutionary explanation? Research reveals how gut bacteria adapted to human breast milk

Evolutionary explanation? Research reveals how gut bacteria adapted to human breast milk

NNI European Meeting - Nutrition of Preterms and further preventive nutritional aspects (publications)
NNI European Meeting - Nutrition of Preterms and further preventive nutritional aspects

NNI European Meeting - Nutrition of Preterms and further preventive nutritional aspects

Importance of Dietary Sources of Iron in Infants and Toddlers: Lessons from the FITS Study (news)
Importance of Dietary Sources of Iron in Infants and Toddlers: Lessons from the FITS Study

Importance of Dietary Sources of Iron in Infants and Toddlers: Lessons from the FITS Study