3rd World Congress of Public Health Nutrition

INC sponsored and organized the symposium "Nuts in Health and Disease" in the framework of the 3rd World Congress of Public Health Nutrition, on November 10, 2014, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, where four international leading researchers shared the latest findings in the field of nuts and health, as well as ongoing studies. The congress was attended by 848 participants from 62 different countries.

The session brought together expertise and insight on nuts consumption in relation to metabolic syndrome, cognitive function, diabetes and overall mortality. International speakers included clinical researcher Prof. Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Professor and Director of the Human Nutrition Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, and Chair of the INC World Forum for Nutrition Research and Dissemination; Dr. Joan Sabaté, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Loma Linda University, Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles and Disease Prevention, Loma Linda, CA USA; Dr. Cyril Kendall, Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael's Hospital, Canada; and Dr. Ying Bao, Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Instructor in Harvard Medical School, USA.

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