NNI BITES, BIG LEARNINGS

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Dr. Nandita Perumal about healthy weight management before and during pregnancy. Dr. Perumal explains how being underweight and overweight can impair fertility, while obesity increases the risk of complications including miscarriage, neural tube defects, gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders, preterm...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Professor Parul Christian about the drivers and lifelong consequences of low birth weight. Professor Christian explains how nutritional factors such as maternal undernutrition, inadequate gestational weight gain, anemia, and multiple micronutrient deficiencies contribute to preterm birth and fetal growth res...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice and  Professor Stephen Kennedy talk about the INTERGROWTH-21st Project and its contribution to the assessment of fetal and newborn growth worldwide. Professor Kennedy explains the development of international fetal growth, birth weight and preterm growth standards to address the limitations of locally derived reference...

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In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice interviews Professor Maria Makrides, exploring the evolving science of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy and their implications for maternal and infant health. Professor Makrides explains how omega-3 fatty acids, particularly DHA, support fetal brain and nervous system development during late gestation, wh...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice with Professor Kathryn Dewey talks about the role of protein-energy supplementation during pregnancy and its potential to improve birth outcomes among nutritionally vulnerable populations. Professor Dewey explains how maternal undernutrition contributes to low birth weight, small-for-gestational-age birth and preterm de...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Dr. Klaus Kraemer about the development and the science behind UNIMMAP — the standardized multiple micronutrient supplement formulated for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Kraemer explains how data from over 20 randomised trials and multiple meta-analyses demonstrate that multiple micr...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Professor Helene McNulty about the landmark evidence linking periconceptional folic acid supplementation to the prevention of neural tube defects (NTDs). Professor McNulty traces the science from early observational findings to the pivotal 1991 MRC trial demonstrating a 72% protective effect against NTD recu...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri about the remarkable biology of the placenta and its critical role as the fetus’s supply line during pregnancy. Professor Sferruzzi-Perri explains how the placenta develops from the earliest stages of embryonic life to regulate the transfer of oxygen, early metabolites and nu...

In this episode of Milestones in Maternal Nutrition, Dr. Carla Cerami speaks with Professor Andrew Prentice about how a mother's diet and nutritional status around the time of conception can leave a lasting imprint on her baby's biology — shaping health outcomes that persist across an entire lifetime. Professor Prentice explains how key nutrients, particularly B vitamins and folate, fuel the epige...

In this new series of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are featuring episodes covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103. In this episode, Dr. Yvan Vandenplas speaks with Dr. Rosan Meyer about how early complementary feeding practices shape food allergy outcomes in infants. Dr. Meyer highlights that a four-to-six-month window of opportunity exists for allergen introduction — with evidence from the LEAP...

In this new series of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are featuring episodes covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103. In this episode, Dr. Yvan Vandenplas speaks with Professor Nadja Haiden about supporting the nutritional needs of preterm infants after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. Professor Haiden emphasizes that post-discharge nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and...

In this new series of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are featuring episodes covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103. In this episode, Professor Raanan Shamir interviews Dr. Natália Ferré about early metabolic programming and the role of dietary protein in obesity prevention. Dr. Ferré explains that the early protein hypothesis suggests higher protein intake in the first months of life is linked to...

In this new series of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are featuring episodes covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103. In this episode, Professor Raanan Shamir speaks with Professor Patrick Tounian about the role of young child formula in meeting the nutritional needs of toddlers beyond infancy. Professor Tounian explains that without young child formula, it is remarkably difficult for toddlers to me...

In this episode of NNI Bites, Big Learnings featuring the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103, Professor Raanan Shamir interviews Dr. Sean Deoni about the critical role of nutrition in early brain development. Dr. Deoni explains that the brain grows by approximately a factor of three in the first two years of life, with myelination requiring a precise combination of fatty acids, DHA, choline, cholesterol,...

In this new series of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are featuring episodes covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103. In this episode, Professor Raanan Shamir speaks with Professor Ciarán Forde about how children learn to eat during the first two years of life. Professor Ford explains that the ability to bite, chew, and swallow is entirely learned — not innate — and that early, progressive texture e...

In this episode of NNI Bites, Big Learnings featuring the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103 series, Professor Raanan Shamir speaks with Dr. Julie Lanigan about optimising early childhood nutrition across the first years of life. Dr. Lanigan shares that the first 1,000 days are a uniquely important window for growth and the formation of dietary habits, and that new data from the MILQ study suggests that...

In this episode of NNI Bites, Big Learnings, we are covering the NNI & WNSC Workshop 103 series. In the first episode, Dr. Yvan Vandenplas interviews Professor Raanan Shamir about the importance of complementary feeding in early childhood. Professor Shamir emphasizes that timing is critical — with a four-to-six-month window recommended by most societies — and that both early and late introduct...

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In this episode of Milestones in Pediatric Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice interviews Professor Mark Manary from Washington University and Adeline Lescanne, CEO of Nutriset, about ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) for severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Professor Manary describes how hospital-based treatment historically achieved only 45% recovery rates, prompting exploration of home-based a...

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In this episode of Milestones in Pediatric Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice interviews Professor Hania Szajewska from the Medical University of Warsaw about probiotics and prebiotics in pediatric nutrition. Professor Szajewska emphasizes the importance of evidence-based definitions from the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP), requiring documented health...

In this episode of Milestones in Pediatric Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice interviews Professor Chittaranjan Yajnik about the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) theory. Professor Yajnik traces its origins to David Barker's "Fetal Origins of Adult Disease" hypothesis, which demonstrated geographic correlations between early-life deprivation and adult cardiovascular disease mor...

In this episode of Milestones in Pediatric Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice speaks with Professor Josef Neu from the University of Florida about advances in preterm infant nutrition. Professor Neu traces the field's evolution from the late 1800s, when incubators adapted from poultry technology reduced mortality by half, through critical developments including infection control, mechanical vent...

In this episode of Milestones in Pediatric Nutrition, Professor Andrew Prentice interviews Dr. Howarth Bouis, 2016 World Food Prize laureate and founding director of HarvestPlus, about the development and impact of biofortification of staple crops. Dr. Bouis describes how his work began in the early 1990s, driven by the high recurrent costs of supplementation and the potential for crops themselves...