Pediatric Nutrition, Gastroenterology and Child Development

Child Nutrition

A healthy diet helps children grow and learn. It also helps prevent obesity and weight-related diseases, such as diabetes. The best nutritious diet for children includes: fruits and vegetables, healthy sources of protein, such as lean meat, nuts, and eggs, whole-grain breads and cereals due to rich fibre content, Broil, grill, or steam foods and water or milk instead of sugary fruit drinks and sodas.

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food (e.g. phytonutrients, anthocyanins, tannins, etc.) in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes Food products and the real nutritive value, Nutrition & metabolism, Nutritional epidemiology, Implementing Nutritional Care. To provide exposure to technologies, government/institutional assistance, increase international tie-ups and to provide knowledge about recent trends in Food & beverages sector is the aim of this event.