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ICN 2009 PRESENTATIONS
 

The following are the presentations from the 19th International Congress of Nutrition held last October 4-9, 2009 - BITEC, Bangkok Thailand.

Cascade I:  Scientific-based knowledge and model in nutrition science and food-based strategies

(a) Nutrient Requirements & Metabolism 

S01 Polyunsaturated fatty acids and human health: getting the balance right
S08  Recent advances in methods to determine amino acid requirements and availability in humans and animals
S52 - Carbohydrates: Continuing controversies
  • - Does altering the nature of carbohydrates influence gene expression?
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    S40 EURRECA network of excellence – Aligning micronutrient requirements
    S15 Antioxidant defense/oxidative damage & nutrition
    S38 Optimal calcium and vitamin D nutrition

    (b) Nutritional Assessment

    S03 - Innovative tools and indicators for program planning and advocacy: mathematical modeling tools and new indicators for infants, young children and women of reproductive age
  • - The Cost-to-Nutritional Benefits of Alternative Intervention Strategies to Improve the Nutrient Intakes of Indonesian Children
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    S23   Body composition from conception through infancy
    S30 Nuclear techniques to move the nutrition agenda forward
    S50 Household food security measurement in developing countries: can we inform better policy makers?
  • - International Congress of Nutrition
  • - Food Insecurity Measurement and Monitoring: Development of Indicators
  • - REACHING FOR THE STARS?: IDENTIFYING NIVERSAL
    MEASURES OF FOOD INSECURITY
  • - HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY MEASUREMENT IN BRAZIL: INFORMING POLICY MAKERS.
  • - Security Measurement Scale (ELCSA)
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    (c) Clinical Nutrition

    S11 Novel lipids and their implications to health
    S18  The metabolic syndrome : New insights into mechanisms and treatment
  • - Overview of the Metabolic Syndrome
  • - Vitamin D & Cardiometabolic Disease
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    S41 Fight against malnutrition in hospitals
  • - Nutritional Assessment in Clinical Nutrition
  • - Care of the Hospitalized Patient with Diabetes
  • - Nutrition Therapy in the ICU
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    (d) Food-based Strategies/Interventions for Optimal Nutrition

    S12 - Ensuring appropriate nutrition from the start: Infant and young child nutrition
  • - Guiding Principles for Feeding Infants and Young Children 6-23 months old: Evidence for Current Recommendations
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    S21  Infant and young child nutrition: public private partnerships: experience from the field
    S33 From biological efficacy to program effectiveness (the case of food fortification)
  • - Elements of a Food Fortification Program: Functions and Players
  • - Recommendations for Fortification of Wheat and Maize Flour
  • - The Quality is Essential Initiative
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    Cascade II: Integrating agriculture, food systems, indigenous cuisines and diet quality

    (e) Agriculture and Food Systems

    S16 Biofortified crops as an emerging nutrition intervention for two continents: state of the art update on rice and maize
  • - Biofortification: general introduction
  • - Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition
    • S02  Bridging agriculture and health through nutrition
  • - Agriculture, Health, Nutrition Linkages
  • - HIV AND FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY
  • - Food safety awareness, practices and enabling assets in India
  • - Dietary quality and small scale food production
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    S09 Ensuring safe food supply - a continuing challenge

    (f) Food Cultures, Cuisines, and Indigenous Diets

    S53 Asian food culture: Dietary factors for obesity and diabetes
    S31   Glutamate function in human nutrition, taste and satiety
    S04 Various food practices for nutrition and health
    S26 Challenge to nutrition security among diverse and vulnerable populations in U.S. and Canada: Access and availability to healthier foods in a changing food environment
    S48 Indigenous peoples’ food systems and nutrition: Finding solutions in local cultures and environments
  • - Ecological Approaches to Human Nutrition
  • - Global Circumstances of Nutrition and Health of Indigenous Peoples
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    (g) Right to Adequate Food

    S24 - The human right to adequate food as a basis for good governance for nutritional wellbeing
  • - Framing Nutrition Policies and Action through Governance based on Human Rights Norms and Principles
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    S39 Nutritional benefit-risk assessments of foods and food consumption patterns
    S54
  • - Protecting nutrition in times of food price crisis: Programs and policy responses
  • - Experiences from the Malawi Nutrition Programme in Accelerating Child Survival: October 2009 ICN 2009 – Malawi National Nutrition Programme MALAWI Mainstreaming Nutrition within the National Health System
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    S42 Econutrition: Integrating food based human nutrition with ecology and agrodiversity

    Cascade III:  Application of knowledge to policy formulation, problem solving, disease prevention and health promotion

    (h) Nutrition and the Triple “I”

    S05  Meeting the nutritional needs of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings: From science to practice
    S10 Iron and malaria interactions: Where are we now and where do we go from here?
    S25 Gut dynamics : the impact of prebiotics on gut health and well-being
  • - Prebiotics in Infant Food
  • - Probiotics:Screening, Cultivation & Effects on mineral absorption
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    S17 Nutrition and infection, inflammation and the immune system - update on impact and mechanisms
  • - SYMPOSIUM NUTRITION AND THE TRIPLE “I”
  • - Diet, Exercise and Mucosal Immunity
  • - Fatty acids and immune function
  • - TB and the role of vitamin D.
  • - Biomarkers of nutritional status influenced by inflammation
  • - Vitamin A, Immune modulation and Mortality
  • - SYMPOSIUM NUTRITION AND THE TRIPLE “I”
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    (i) Obesity and Non-related Chronic Diseases

    S13  Childhood obesity: A global challenge
    S20 - Global alliance/WHO: Prevention and control of obesity and related chronic diseases
  • - The French National Nutritional Health Programme (PNNS)
  • - Finland´s approach with an emphasis on salt
  • - The Danish approach to pricing policies in diet regulation
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    S28 Food, nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of cancer: Relevance & implications for global health
  • - WCRF International and American Institute for Cancer Research
  • - Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention
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    (j)  Nutrition Throughout the Life Course

    S55 Interactions within the ‘double burden’ of malnutrition: obesity, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance and micronutrient deficiencies
    S51  Preventing micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children: Emerging issues and latest findings
  • - WEEKLY IRON/FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE (WRA) TO PROMOTE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
  • - Preventing anemia and micronutrient deficiencies in school children in Vietnam
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    S27 Impact of interventions to enhance zinc status
  • - Zinc supplementation during pregnancy – effects on outcomes and beyond
  • - Can dietary strategies enhance zinc nutriture in low income countries?
  • - Preventive zinc supplementation: Current evidence & programmatic recommendations
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    S06 Correction of iodine deficiency in populations: strategies for control and the changing epidemiology of thyroid disorders with changes in iodine intake
    S32  Nutrition, lifestyle, brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases: Quenching the fires of aging
    S44 Nutrition and cognition in children: possible mechanisms of action
    S34 The long term significance of nutrition in early childhood

    k) Evidence-based Policies & Programs to Address the Global Health and Nutritoin Goals

    S19 Africa nutrition highlights
  • - The nutrition transition and the double burden of malnutrition in Africa Symposium
  • - Nutrition leadership in Africa: meeting the current and future nutritional challenges
  • - Nutrition Profession in Africa: Meeting the Current and Future Challenges
  • - Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Developing Countries A Global Perspective
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    S36 Asia nutrition highlights
  • Nutrition Programmes in India Evolution and Current Status
  • Success, sustainability and current challenges of malnutrition in Thailand
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    S47 Europe nutrition highlights
  • - Highlights Europe: Promoting a healthy diet and physical activity in the Euopean Union (Design and outcomes of pan-European EC co-funded projects)
  • - Food PRO-FIT
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    S45 Latin America nutrition highlights
  • - Future prospects for Nutrition, Health and Policy Responses from the Southern Cone Region
  • - Future Prospects for Nutrition, Health and Policy Responses for the Andean Region
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    (l)Food & Nutrition Interventions for Health

    S35  Obesity prevention – effective interventions using public-private partnerships
  • - Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Brazilian High Schools
  • - School-based Obesity Prevention: Three Case Studies
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    S43 Communication and partnership building to improve child nutrition
    S56
  • - A global perspective on consumer understanding and use of nutrition information on food labels
  • - Asian Food Information Centre
  • - Nutrition labelling and the European Consumer
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    S46 - Nutrition profiling and labeling: current research, controversies and impact
  • - Front of the Package Labeling
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    Cross-Cutting Cascades I, II, and III

    (m) Frontiers in Nutrition Research

    S37 Nutritional genomics in health and disease
  • - Nutrition and Epigenetics
  • - Nutrigen(Etic/Omic)s Responses to dietary intervention in obesepeople as affected by the genotype
    • S07 Epigenetics: linking nutritional, hereditary and environmental aspects of human health
    S14   Building better programs through delivery science: Experiences, challenges and the way forward
  • - Experiences from Country-Level Testing of a Micronutrient Program Assessment Tools
  • - Supporting Delivery Science: the FANTA-2 Investment
  • - Building Better Programs through Delivery Science
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    S22  Understanding policy processes in nutrition
  • - Successful policy development through effective program management : the Senegal case
  • - Prospective Analysis of Nutrition Policy Developments in Viet Nam
  • - REACH Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition
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    S29 Effects of micronutrient interventions early in life on health, development and survival later in life: Findings from randomized controlled trials (2 hours)
    S49 Amino acids and related metabolites; nutritional and physiological significances in regulation of normal appetite, digestion and homeostasis for healthier life
  • - Creatine Synthesis Plays a Major Role in Amino Acid Metabolism in Neonatal and Adult Animals
  • - Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • - No relation was observed between Monosodium glutamate intake and body weight in Vietnamese adults
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    Important Dates :

    30th April 2009
    Late-breaking Abstract Submission Deadline

    20th April 2009
    Notification of Abstract Selection

    4th July 2009
    Deadline for Early-Bird Registration
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