The Danone Institutes are not-for-profit organizations. Our mission is to develop and disseminate scientific knowledge on diet and nutrition to benefit public health.

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Childhood Obesity

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Risks and Benefits of rapid Early Growth

This pre-congress symposium was organized by Danone Institute International in October 2006 during the Europaediatrics 2006 Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The objective of this scientific conference was to review the most recent data on early nutrition as a determinant of future health in humans as well as animals models and to address practical nutritional recommendations for infants

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.

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

Our Network

Danone Institutes are not-for-profit entities which link scientists involved in human nutrition with health and education professionals. They support nutrition research programs and provide diet and nutritional information including: information on eating behaviors, dietary guidelines, nutrition events and nutrition organizations. The Institutes focus particularly on, Nutrition and child development, early childhood nutrition and childhood obesity prevention.