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In a world that has embraced technological advancements, industrialization has become inevitable. However, these rapid developments have also been linked to reduction of microbiome diversity, alterations in metabolic function, which may then relate to chronic diseases. Watch the NNI Symposium at the 8th International Congress on Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Postbiotics in Pediatrics to navigate how we can cope with these changes and maintain utmost health. In focus will be new data on the intersection of dietary glycans and the microbiome and its importance in early life, as discussed by our moderator Sanja Kolacek, and speakers Jens Walter and Omar Delannoy Bruno.

In a world that has embraced technological advancements, industrialization has become inevitable. However, these rapid developments have also been linked to reduction of microbiome diversity, alterations in metabolic function, which may then relate to chronic diseases. Watch Session 2: How Dietary Glycans Can Improve Microbiome Diversity in the NNI Symposium at the 8th International Congress on Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Postbiotics in Pediatrics to navigate how we can cope with these changes and maintain utmost health.

In a world that has embraced technological advancements, industrialization has become inevitable. However, these rapid developments have also been linked to reduction of microbiome diversity, alterations in metabolic function, which may then relate to chronic diseases. Watch Session 1: Evolution of the Microbiome Ecology and Impact of Industrialization by speaker Jens Walter of the NNI Symposium at the 8th International Congress on Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Postbiotics in Pediatrics to navigate how we can cope with these changes and maintain utmost health.

Today, healthy eating has become a trend. While malnutrition in its different forms is being a threat to global health, more people are trying to make healthier food choices to be able to get their benefits, but what constitutes a healthy diet and how does one achieve this? Prof. Sumantra Ray, RNutr, discusses nutrition, diet and malnutrition in this lecture. He goes into the factors that affect food choices, as well as prevention and health promotion. Watch the video to learn more about not just good nutrition and how to achieve it, but also the double duty actions required by this double burden to achieve better food accessibility and availability to all.

Obesity cases are growing more than double the rate of cases of hunger and malnutrition. This has been such a widespread epidemic, that the WHO coined the term “globesity” to show the extent of its occurrence throughout the world. Areas of concern when it comes to obesity include its relationship with non-communicable diseases, and that it is now affecting an even younger population. In this lecture, Naglaa M. Kamal, MD, speaks more about this in detail, including the roots causes of obesity, and the action plans to combat this in adults and in children. Watch it to learn more.

Due to unprecedented health challenges over the past few years, people have been forced to stay home. Even with the resurgence of activities done face-to-face, the impacts of the pandemic have been proven to be here to stay. In this lecture with Federica Amati, PhD, we delve into things we have shifted to which have had indirect effects to nutrition, such as virtual schooling, and parental stress in relation with home-cooked meals. She also tackles why maternal and child health are a primary focus in research, the changing eating habits before, during, and now as we recover from the pandemic, and household food insecurity. Watch this video to learn more, and modern-day solutions worth looking into.

Over the course of the pandemic, alarming rates of infections have shifted the focus of populations towards health and wellness, particularly on immunity. Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD, details more about the possible role nutrition can play on immunity, more specifically with regards to upper respiratory tract infections, which is of utmost essence in the time of COVID-19. View the video to hear Dr. Kohlmeier discuss further about nutrition and immunity, as well as the roles of early acting innate, then humoral immunity, the impact of nutritional status on respiratory infections, and the latest updates on the relationship of vitamin D status and COVID-19 severity and outcomes.

While new forms of malnutrition has emerged, such as overnutrition, undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies still affect the world today. Currently, one-third of the population is deficient in at least 1 micronutrient, and this may affect immune response. Otilia Perichart-Perera, PhD, MSc, RDN, details how nutrients and the lack thereof may affect the immune system, such as how it may alter immunologic function and have inflammatory effects, nutrition-related chronic diseases, and in the era of COVID-19, the dietary and lifestyle changes that have brought about the trends in nutrition today, and its effects of the gut microbiome and its implications on immunity. Learn more about this, as well possible interventions such as supplementation, especially in women and children in this video.