SAVE THE DATES | FEBRUARY 24-26, 2013
LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA, USA
Every five years this scientific conference on the health effects of plant based diets offers an opportunity for health professionals and researchers to learn from each other in plenary sessions, workshops, poster presentations and social gatherings.
Professional interest in vegetarian nutrition has now reached unprecedented levels; however, scientific knowledge regarding vegetarian diets and their effects on human health is far from complete. The Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition is designed to provide a review of the accumulated findings, and introduce theoretical concepts, practical applications, and implications of vegetarian dietary practices for both the prevention of disease and the promotion of health, as well as for the furthering of research endeavors.
Program Highlights
- The Great Debate: Are all Omega-3’s created equal?
- Vegetarian diet pattern and longevity
- Are vegetarian diets the solution to healthy aging?
- Role of plant foods in prevention of chronic diseases
- Environmental cost of vegetarian diet patterns
- Vegetarian studies around the globe
- Myths and controversies surrounding soy
- New frontiers in nut research
- Plant versus animal foods: the eternal debate
- Dairy foods: what is the verdict?
- Why and how vegetarian diets prevent obesity
- Challenges of defining vegetarian diet
- And many more. . .
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