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Gut, Fat, Iron & Brain: where are we?
This symposium was organized by Danone Institute International in August 2008 on the occasion of the 3rd World Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepathology and Nutrition in Iguassu, Brazil. The objective of this meeting between members of the Danone international Institutes and selected guests participants was to discuss new knowledge on how essential fatty acids and iron affect brain development before and after birth and what we can do to support foetal, infant and child brain development providing optimal nutrition to mothers and children during these critical periods. |
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Acquisition of Food-Related Behaviour in Children: Critical Windows for Later Health
This International pre-congress symposium was held in Paris in July 2007 during the10th European Nutrition Conference. The program covered many factors that might affect a child’s ability to maintain a healthy body weight during growth from genetics factors to environmental influences. Internationally recognised experts in the field of healthy growth contribute to a perspective to the problem of child weight control failure and suggest few solutions. |
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Nutrition Solutions for Pre-school Children: how to optimize growth and development?
This International Symposium was organised by Danone Institute International in September 2005 on the occasion of the 18th International Congress of Nutrition in Durban, South Africa. The scientists dealt with the antagonists nutrition problems: undernutrition and deficiencies and overnutrition and obesity |