Antoni Caimari, director of the Biotechnology Area of Eurecat and MED4Youth’s principal investigator, participated in the International Conference on AgriFood Tech organised by the University Andrés Bello of Santiago de Chile and celebrated last 23rd of January 2023.
During the conference, Antoni Caimari presented MED4Youth as a key European project working to demonstrate the link between the Mediterranean Diet and the health benefits against youth obesity and associated cardiovascular disease risk factors. He took the opportunity to highlight the urgent need to counteract youth obesity and explain what the Mediterranean Diet is.
In addition, the presentation included an explanation of some details of the project’s implementation such as the design of an energy-restricted Mediterranean Diet and low-fat diets, the sourdough breads produced, the nutritional education-web-application developed, and some preliminary results achieved during the MED4Youth’s interventional study.
The International Conference on AgriFood Tech, which was attended by more than 800 participants via streaming and in person, had the objective to present R&D biotechnological technologies and applications that are helping to satisfy increasingly demanding markets and consumers, with a focus on sustainability and triple impact: economic, environmental and social.