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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Snacking: Filling Nutritional Gaps in Toddlers

Snacking is one of the important sources of nutrition for toddlers’ diets, as well as a way to fill the nutritional gap…

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NNI European Meeting: Growth and Immunity (events)
NNI European Meeting: Growth and Immunity
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Human Milk Lessons : Human Milk Oligosaccharides Infl uence Neonatal Mucosal and Systemic Immunity

Breast milk contains a variety of carbohydrates – human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) – that protect the newborn and…

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Human Milk Lessons : Human Milk Lipids

Koletzko focuses on functional lipid components in human milk. Adding complex lipids and milk fat globule membranes as…

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COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING AND INFANT GROWTH (videos)
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COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING AND INFANT GROWTH

​Understand the next stage of infant nutrition or complementary feeding – the timing, composition of foods and the mode…

Dr Viet Grote, Dr. Von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Munich, …
19th Annual Summer Conference on Pediatrics 2017 (events)
19th Annual Summer Conference on Pediatrics 2017

Our 18th Annual Summer Conference on Pediatrics is designed to provide physicians, nurse practitioners, physician…

World Summit on Pediatrics 2017
World Summit on Pediatrics 2017

​It is a great pleasure and an honor to extend to you a warm invitation to attend the 3th World Summit on Pediatrics, to…

International Society for Neonatal Screening 10th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2017 (events)
International Society for Neonatal Screening 10th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2017

On behalf of the organizing team, we have the honor and pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the…

American Academy Of Pediatrics Conference 2017 (events)
American Academy Of Pediatrics Conference 2017

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) invites you to join us for the 2017 National Conference & Exhibition September…