Positive Nutrition: a new mindset to address the obesity epidemic and beyond

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable® in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, Cambridge Food Science, and the American Italian Food Coalition, cordially invite you to the symposium: "Positive Nutrition: Shifting the Focus from Nutrients to Diet for a Healthy Lifestyle," to be held on Thursday, September 15, 2022, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC (3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008), with a reception to follow. H.E. Mariangela Zappia, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, will give opening remarks.

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  • Mariangela Zappia, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, will give opening remarks.
  • A general scientific consensus endorses the Mediterranean eating pattern, its food matrix, lifestyle and societal variables, and environmental conditions contributing to long-term well-being.
  • A complex and multifaced problem such as obesity cannot be simplified to a single solution."
  • Additional information about the speakers can be found by visiting http://www.MDRproject.com Interested Media please RSVP to: [email protected]


Positive Nutrition: a new mindset to address the obesity epidemic and beyond

As nutrition issues take center stage with the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and policymakers prepare for debates on these topics, the MDR® and the AIFC launch a scientific symposium focusing on positive nutritional strategies for a healthy future.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable® in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, Cambridge Food Science, and the American Italian Food Coalition, cordially invite you to the symposium: "Positive Nutrition: Shifting the Focus from Nutrients to Diet for a Healthy Lifestyle," to be held on Thursday, September 15, 2022, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC (3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008), with a reception to follow. H.E. Mariangela Zappia, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, will give opening remarks.

The impact of dietary choices on human health is gaining undivided attention, with an urgent call to action for developing new strategies able to contrast weight-related diseases as well as poverty. This symposium aims to provide an inclusive approach to adopting positive nutritional strategies, focusing on the long-term results and not on specific nutrients, moving the narrative to the whole lifestyle: sustainable dietary patterns, physical, and social activity as agents of change.

Since Hippocrates, food, and medicine have been interlaced in many ways. But now more than ever, it is imperative to better understand these complex relationships, with a multidisciplinary approach able to create a cohesive relationship between food, nutrition, environment, economic, social, and policy aspects, creating a new narrative about eating patterns.

With the discovery of essential nutrients in the first half of the 20th Century, nutritionists began employing relatively short- or intermediate-term experiments for disease prevention. However, fad diets never contemplate the whole picture: e.g.: people eat complex foods, not individual nutrients; observational studies are unable to determine causality; there are serious difficulties in designing, implementing, and funding long-term intervention trials.

A general scientific consensus endorses the Mediterranean eating pattern, its food matrix, lifestyle and societal variables, and environmental conditions contributing to long-term well-being. One result of such scientific investigations highlights the importance of avoiding stigmatizing this or that ingredient, and to focus on the whole meal and the right portion: a distinctive feature of the Mediterranean Diet as well as other traditional eating patterns.

Building on this science-based perspective, speakers at this symposium will discuss how public policy can help support whole diets, physical activity, and associated lifestyles.

Featured world-class scholars in the program include:

  • Dennis Bier, Director of the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine (USA)
  • Hugo Da Costa Ribeiro, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
  • Lorenzo Maria Donini, University La Sapienza (Italy)
  • Paul Gately, Leeds Beckett University (UK)
  • Daniela Martini, University of Milano (Italy)
  • Rick Mattes, Perdue University (USA)
  • Roberta Re, Director at Cambridge Food Science (UK) and Scientific Chair of the event

 

The program will be organized in two sessions: Importance of Diets not individual ingredients – European and American Dietary Pattern: Nutrition/Nutrients/ Mediterranean Diet; followed by The Role of Portion in Dietary Pattern: Energy balance, physical activity, portion size, and frequency of consumption.

"Nutritional science and nutritional policy cannot continue to ignore the interactions among diet, environment, lifestyle, and health maintenance," says Dennis Bier adding "In order to illuminate the full nutritional field for the future, we must shine a light on all those variable interdependencies and their contributions to causal relationships among diet and disease prevention." Roberta Re, Scientific Chair of the event states: "Dietary recommendations have promoted a restriction approach for several years, meanwhile level of obesity has continued rising across the globe. Are we tackling the problem with the right tools? A complex and multifaced problem such as obesity cannot be simplified to a single solution."

Additional information about the speakers can be found by visiting http://www.MDRproject.com Interested Media please RSVP to: [email protected]

Media Contact

Daniela Puglielli, founder, The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable, 1 9088033809, [email protected]

 

SOURCE The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable

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