ISPAMed 2024

The importance of Diet in Health: What About the Future?

Not scheduled

20m

Aula Magna "G.P. Ballatore" (UniPA SAAF)

Oral Presentation Topic 3. Food and Health: How the research of Well-being passes through the Agri-food Production System Sessione 3

Speaker

ANTONIO GARCIA RIOS (Department of Internal Medicine, Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

Description

Food habits and preferences of our population are continuously changing throughout the world. In an era with more evidence about the importance of diet for health, there is increasing abandonment of heart-healthy diets such as the Mediterranean diet. The direct consequence of this is an increase in metabolic diseases such as obesity, dyslipidemia, and diabetes, leading to a rise in cardiovascular disease.
In order to combat this pandemic, the agri-food sector is essential, which must use education, new technologies and research as weapons to improve the health of society in a sustainable way for the planet. To achieve this it will be key to establish alliances between professionals in the agri-food sector and health professionals, perhaps through research and evidence.