Early Nutrition and Long-Term Health task force

Position your company on cutting-edge scientific topics. Join companies, academics and public authorities to work on providing scientific evidence to support guidelines for maternal and infant nutrition to ensure life-time optimal health. Join also to identify risk factors for obesity and other health consequences at the earliest stages of life. Ongoing activities are focused on: - Early biomarkers for prediction of metabolic health with the aim to review biomarkers in early life that could be used to predict development of childhood obesity and metabolic health. This prediction may drive knowledge of personalised nutrition. - Lipid quality in early life nutrition with the aim to generate an overview of the dietary lipid quality in the first year of life and its relations with health benefits for consumers. - Plant-based proteins for infants with the aim to evaluate the nutritional quality of plant protein-based infant formula for term-born infants (< 1 years old). An upcoming activity is focused on postbiotics for early life nutrition which will explore the emerging role of postbiotics in infant nutrition through a focused, workshop-style debate involving experts in microbiota, pediatrics, and nutritional science. This initiative will identify key challenges, assess knowledge gaps, and develop recommendations to guide future research and applications. The outcomes will be published to support evidence-based guidance in infant and early childhood health. In the pipeline are also the following topics: - Evidence review on gut-brain-axis, early microbiome development and mental health later in life; - Evidence review on vegan diet for children; - Countries nutritional requirements for weaning food (1-3 years) and young child formula. More info: https://ilsi.eu/scientific-activities/nutrition/early-nutrition-and-long-term-health/