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
Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents (news)
Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents

Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents

Breakthrough study shows synbiotic effective in prevention of sepsis in Indian babies (news)
Breakthrough study shows synbiotic effective in prevention of sepsis in Indian babies

Breakthrough study shows synbiotic effective in prevention of sepsis in Indian babies

Does a mother's pre-pregnancy weight determine her child's metabolism? (news)
Does a mother's pre-pregnancy weight determine her child's metabolism?

Does a mother's pre-pregnancy weight determine her child's metabolism?

Improving diet quality over time linked with reduced risk of premature death (news)
Improving diet quality over time linked with reduced risk of premature death

Improving diet quality over time linked with reduced risk of premature death

The double burden of childhood malnutrition (news)
The double burden of childhood malnutrition

The double burden of childhood malnutrition

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