MED4YOUTH FINAL EVENT
Mediterranean Diet for the promotion of healthy nutrition habits: interventional studies, digital tools & foods development
Wednesday 29th November, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM CET | ONLINE
The MED4Youth project, coordinated by Eurecat, is organizing its final webinar titled “Mediterranean Diet for the promotion of healthy nutrition habits: interventional studies, digital tools and foods development”.
The project has carried out an interventional study targeting adolescents with obesity from Spain, Portugal and Italy, to demonstrate that a Mediterranean diet is more effective in maintaining an optimal weight and healthy habits than a conventional low-fat diet among adolescents.
During the final webinar, partners will present the main results and outcomes of the research and the study in order to gain knowledge about the mechanisms through which the Mediterranean Diet exerts its health effects, as well as the main products produced and some digital tools developed to promote the personalized nutrition.
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Agenda
10.00 – Welcome & introduction to MED4Youth final webinar
Dr. Biotza Gutiérrez, MED4Youth coordinator, Eurecat
10.05 – Keynote session “Mediterranean Diet: a focus on epigenetics”
Prof. Alfredo Martínez, Director of the Precision Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health Program and Group leader of the Cardiometabolic Nutrition Group, IMDEA-Alimentación
10.20 – The MED4Youth project: Tackling youth obesity through the Mediterranean Diet
Dr. Toni Caimari, MED4Youth’s principal investigator and Director of the Biotechnology Area, Eurecat
10.30 – The SwitchToHealthy project: Switching Mediterranean consumers to Mediterranean sustainable healthy patterns
Simona Mincione, Senior Project Manager, Enco Consulting
10.40 – SESSION I – MED4Youth study results
“MED4Youth intervention study: main results on behavioral and dietary data, phenolic metabolites and food intake biomarkers”.
Dr. Alice Rosi, Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma
“The effects of the Mediterranean Diet intervention on classical anthropometric and biochemical biomarkers and health”.
Paulo Matafome, PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
“Omics and data integration approaches in MED4Youth”.
Helena Torrell, PhD Researcher at the Omic Sciences Unit, Eurecat
11.25 – SESSION II: Development of healthy foods and products
“Healthy bread: sourdough and ingredients”.
Guillermo Saldaña, Technical and Scientific Assistant, NOVAPAN
“Snacks developed in SwitchToHealthy”
Sonia Sanchez, R+D Developer, Delafruit
11.55 – SESSION III: Digital tools for personalised nutrition plans
“The MED4Youth app: insight into contents and usability of a web-based educational application for adolescents and their parents”.
Perla Degli Innocenti, PhD Student at the Human Nutrition Unit, Unviersity of Parma.
“SwitchToHealthy APP”
Lazaros Gymnopoulos, Project Manager, CERTH
12.15 – Questions & Answers
12.30 – Final conclusions and closure of the webinar
