Nutrition, Health and Wellness

With vast clinical problems persisting in the world today, the role of nutrition for overall health, and prevention and treatment of diseases may sometimes be overlooked.

In this section you will find extensive research on the therapeutic role of diet, including resources for dietary guidelines and nutrition screening & assessment. We also cover requirements and recommendations for food safety, healthy eating, nutrients and hydration.

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NNIW100 Publication
NNIW100 - Shaping The Future with Nutrition

NNIW100 - Shaping The Future with Nutrition

With the theme “Shaping The Future with Nutrition,” NNIW100’s first session looked at current understanding of the fundamentals of maternal and child nutrition, and the different factors that shape an individual’s health and wellbeing such as maternal preconception nutrition, mode of birth, infant nutrition, breastfeeding and human milk research, complementary feeding practices, environmental factors and more. The second session also examined food dietary habits for optimal development, wherein speakers highlighted a strong evidence base for the nutritional approach that supports good health

Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve
Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve

Food, planet and health: A complex equation to solve

Zakari Ali
Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security
Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security

Eating better: Enhancing health, sustainability, and food security

Kevin Chen
Influencing flavor perception and preference in infants for long-term health (infographics)
Influencing flavor perception and preference in infants for long-term health

Influencing flavor perception and preference in infants for long-term health

Nutrition 2018 (Amercian Society of Nutrition, formerly in conjunction with Experimental Biology) Annual Meeting: NNI-led
Nutrition 2018 (Amercian Society of Nutrition, formerly in conjunction with Experimental Biology) Annual Meeting: NNI-led

Nutrition 2018 (Amercian Society of Nutrition, formerly in conjunction with Experimental Biology) Annual Meeting: NNI-led

Nutrition one of most 'significant individual factors' for child development in first 1,000 days  (news)
Nutrition one of most 'significant individual factors' for child development in first 1,000 days

Nutrition one of most 'significant individual factors' for child development in first 1,000 days

Lack of sleep among pregnant women linked to increased risk of gestational diabetes  (news)
Lack of sleep among pregnant women linked to increased risk of gestational diabetes

Lack of sleep among pregnant women linked to increased risk of gestational diabetes

Expectant mother’s elevated blood pressure raises child’s risk of obesity  (news)
Expectant mother’s elevated blood pressure raises child’s risk of obesity

Expectant mother’s elevated blood pressure raises child’s risk of obesity

Eating peanuts while breastfeeding could protect babies from allergy, study suggests  (news)
Eating peanuts while breastfeeding could protect babies from allergy, study suggests

Eating peanuts while breastfeeding could protect babies from allergy, study suggests

XXII World Congress of the International Federation of Gynecologists & Obstetricians (FIGO) 2018
XXII World Congress of the International Federation of Gynecologists & Obstetricians (FIGO) 2018

XXII World Congress of the International Federation of Gynecologists & Obstetricians (FIGO) 2018

European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) 2018
European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) 2018

European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) 2018