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
Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans (videos)
Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Fat Tissue Growth and Development in Humans

Peter Arner
Muscle Growth (videos)
Muscle Growth

Muscle Growth

Marta L. Fiorotto
Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate (videos)
Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate

Bone Growth: Growth in Height Occurs at the Growth Plate

Ernst B. Hunziker
The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event (videos)
The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event

The Implications of Growth as a Time Specific Event

Michelle Lampl
Pediatric Nutrition in Practice: Volume 2 (publications)
Pediatric Nutrition in Practice: Volume 2

Pediatric Nutrition in Practice: Volume 2

Berthold Koletzko
Study supports safety & effects of human milk oligosaccharides in healthy adults (news)
Study supports safety & effects of human milk oligosaccharides in healthy adults

Study supports safety & effects of human milk oligosaccharides in healthy adults

Nestlé and British Nutrition Foundation - Horizon Scanning Project (publications)
Nestlé and British Nutrition Foundation - Horizon Scanning Project

Nestlé and British Nutrition Foundation - Horizon Scanning Project

Pain in Infancy and Childhood (publications)
Pain in Infancy and Childhood

Pain in Infancy and Childhood

International Committee of Paediatricians