In Bruges

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Friday, 10 December 2010 21:01

Bruges, Belgium, December 2010—Big things are being planned for next spring at the Kempinski Hotel Duke’s Palace in Bruges. www.omega3summit.org It’s being forecast as a Global Summit on Nutrition, Health and Human Behavior — a meeting that will feature the world’s foremost authorities in neuroscience coming together to develop new product strategies and policies for omega-3 consumption. The meeting will take place March 3-4, 2011. The world’s neuroscience experts warn that the new epidemic of mental illness and brain dysfunction is exponentially broadening due to inadequate long chain fatty acid intake. This leads to a cost to society potentially higher than the cost of the worldwide obesity issue. A lead question being planned to introduce the scope of the summit will be: Why is this Summit needed to start the Turnaround in lc-Omega-3 Consumption on Worldwide Scale? Among the speakers at this important two-day meeting will be Michael Crawford, professor at the Division of Reproductive Physiology and Obstetrics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Campus, Imperial College, London, U.K; Captain Joseph Hibbein, from the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland; Dr. Norman Salem Jr., Martek Biosciences Corporation, Columbia, Maryland; Professor Dr. Alexandra Richardson, Oxford University, U.K.; Mr. Paolo Bray, Friends of the Sea, Italy, and Mr. Frederico Tripodi, Monsanto/Solae, St. Louis, Missouri. Topics that will be covered include estimating global burdens of diseases from deficiencies in omega-3 fatty acids; research, nutrition and health effects; food and cognition; how nutrition and particularly fatty acids can affect behavior, learning and mood; shifting the paradigm of the seafood industry and doing things differently; and novel omega-3 supplies from major food crops. For more, go to www.omega3summit.org. SOURCE: Global Summit on Nutrition, Health and Human Behavior < Prev   Next >