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Meeting at a glance



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Topics to be covered

Track 1: Advances in Nutrition Research
  • Nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics and personalized nutrition
  • Epigenetics and early programming
  • New advances in experimental nutrition
  • Biomarkers in nutrition
  • New experimental approaches in clinical nutrition
  • New experimental approaches using stable isotopes

Track 2: Nutrition through Life Course
  • Nutrition in pregnancy and lactation
  • Nutrition in infancy and childhood
  • Nutrition and adolescence
  • Nutrition in the elderly
  • Sport nutrition

Track 3: Public Health Nutrition
  • Epidemiology
  • Healthy life styles promotion
  • Physical activity
  • Nutrition intervention policies
  • Guidelines

Track 4: Nutrition and Management of Diseases
  • Obesity, diabetes and related disorders
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Cancer
  • Malnutrition
  • Other inflammatory and immune diseases
  • Osteoporosis
  • Emergent and rare diseases

Track 5: Nutritional Assessment
  • Body composition
  • Growth and development
  • Macronutrients
  • Micronutrients
  • International data base of food composition
  • Dietary assessment methods

Track 6: Functional Food and Bioactive Compounds
  • Prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics
  • Bioactive food components and ingredients
  • Evaluation of food functionality

Track 7: Food culture practices
  • Joining cultures through the Mediterranean diet
  • Nutrition transition challenges in Latin America
  • Nutrition, health and wellness in Asia and Oceania
  • Improving indegenous food system in Africa
  • Changing dietary patterns in Northern and Western countries

Track 8: Food Technology and Safety
  • Nutritional claims
  • Econutrition and agrodiversity
  • Generating new food sources
  • New frontiers in food technology
  • Food safety, nutrition and wellness