Next April the 23rd, the University of Granada will hold the Granada’s Scientific Week on Healthy Lifestyle & Nutrition in Europe: from Conception to Adolescence (http://www.enasymposium2008.org), a meeting in which nearly 300 researchers from all over the world will take part. This act is part of the European project EARNEST, in which 38 enterprises and universities from 16 countries are involved.
The meeting, organized by the Department of Pediatrics from the University of Granada is aimed at paediatrics, neonatologists, obstetricists, biochemists, physiology professionals, nutritionists, pharmacists, biologists, nurses, matrons, etc.
The symposium, headed by professors Cristina Campoy Folgoso ( Department of Pediatrics of the University of Granada) and Berthold Koletzko (University of Munich), will analyze the latest results of the EARNEST project in child nutrition and the onset of various diseases in adult life (cardiovascular problems, diabetes, obesity, allergies, weak bones and neuromotor and behavioural results).
Lectures scheduled:
1. “SESSION ON PROGRAMMING OBESITY- INSULIN RESISTANCE BY EARLY NUTRITION”, headed by Berthold Koletzko (Germany);
2. “EARLY NUTRITION PROGRAMMING AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT & MENTAL PERFORMANCE”, by Mijna Hadders-Algra (Holland);
3. “EARLY NUTRITION PROGRAMMING AND INMUNE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT”, by Philip Calder (United Kingdom),
4. “INFANT FEEDING POLICIES AND COMMUNICATION”, by Monique Raats (United Kingdom).
EARNEST Project
The EARNEST Project (The Early Nutrition Programming Project – http://www.metabolic-programming.org) aspires to help in the development of policies, information campaigns, documents, guides and recommendations on the nutritional components in children food for the improvement of children’s formulas; the Project has also designed plans of action to prevent and avoid nutrition effects on metabolism.
EARNEST is coordinated by the University of Ludwig-Maximilians of Munich (Germany). The Projects started in April 2005 and will keep on working until 2010.
Reference:
Dr. Cristina Campoy Folgoso. Department of Pediatrics of the University of Granada
Phone: 958023419. Mobil: 629308695.
E-mail.: ccampoy@ugr.es.
Web: http://www.enasymposium2008.org
