Join international and UQ experts to discuss diet fads, ancient foods and new products for food and health.

22 November 2017
6 pm - 8 pm
Customs House, 399 Queens Street, Brisbane, Australia
$25 per person
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Ever since Hippocrates declared all disease begins in the gut over 2000 years ago, there has never been more public interest, or confusion, in the Western world about our diets and the food we should be eating for optimal health.

Program

1. Present and future of the Mediterranean diet

Prof. Lluis Serra-Majem
President of the International Foundation of the Mediterranean Diet and Professor of Preventive Medicine & Public Health at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

What are the challenges for the world’s most popular and scientifically-validated diet? Nutrition and culture versus convenience and globalisation. Uptake and sustainability of the Mediterranean diet in Australia and Asia.

2. Learning from the diets of our ancestors

Prof. Judith Kimiywe
CNS Chairperson, Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Kenyatta University, Kenya

Transitioning from traditional to modern diets; Indigenous knowledge, technology and nutrition; Enhancing food and nutrition security of communities

3. Human nutrition and gut microbial science

Prof. Mike Gidley
Director, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, QAAFI

The gut science r/evolution; Rethinking nutrition based on gut science learnings; Busting gut fallacies: prebiotics & probiotics, faecal transplants.

4. Ancient grains and superfoods

Prof. Robert Henry
Professor of Innovation and Director of QAAFI

Ancient grains – separating fact from fiction; The role of cereal grains in a modern diet; The future of rice.

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