Events Program*
Saturday 16 October – Welfair Plenary
12.00 AM – 1.30 PM
ROUND TABLE
Diets in comparison: Mediterranean Diet, Zone Diet, Ketogenic Diet, Calorie Restriction and Fasting
Science progresses and what was wrong before becomes right, and vice versa: in the past in order to feel good you had to take full and regular meals, now nutritionists talk about fasting as a healthy thing… Who do we listen to? In this Round Table we will examine some of the most established and healthy nutritional models, trying to understand the scientific basis, the beneficial effects on health, how easy they are to follow, their nutritional completeness, their safety and their potential to prevent chronic diseases and manage health.
Speakers:
The sustainability of the Italian Mediterranean reference Diet
Laura Di Renzo – Professor of Nutrition Sciences, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Zone Diet
Gigliola Braga – Nutritionist biologist and professor, University of Turin
Blue Zone Diets
Eugenio Luigi Iorio – Surgeon, Phd in Biochemical Sciences, specialist in Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, president of the International Observatory of Oxidative Stress and the Popular University of Lifestyle Medicine – Lifestyle Medicine.
Calories Restriction and Fasting
Antonio Paoli – Full Professor. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova
Ketogenic Diets: Dietotherapy or Dietetic Therapies?
Giovanni Spera – Senior professor of internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Graduated in medicine in 1966, he specialized in endocrinology in 1969. Founder and scientific director of the master “Prevention and therapy of overweight, obesity and eating disorders“ at La Sapienza. President of the Italian Society for the Study of the Diseases of the Nutrition Behavior (SISDCA).
