PREVENTOMICS project has been presented during the workshop “Application of omic sciences to precision nutrition”, organised within the IV Conference on Nutrition and Health of the Foodservice Cluster on March 9th. During the session, project’s partner Ignasi Papell business development manager food industry from Eurecat presented PREVENTOMICS as a key European project in the field…
PREVENTOMICS project has been presented during the online session “Personalised nutrition: improving health from nutrition tips and individualised healthy lifestyles”, organised by l’Escola Oberta de Salut de Reus and Eurecat and celebrated last 28th of January. Josep Maria del Bas, director of Eurecat’s Nutrition and Health Unit and PREVENTOMICS’ technical supervisor, was the main speaker…
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide and, especially when accompanied by group of disorders known as metabolic syndrome, is the common factor of reduced lifespan. Diagnosis of metabolic syndrome allows the identification of people at two-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease and five-fold increased risk of type 2 diabetes. According to the International Diabetes Federation,…
Because eating well is a bet on health In recent decades, developed societies have experienced a food overabundance and this is reflected in the increase in life expectancy. At the same time health problems, such as obesity, have appeared, which highlight the lack of balance between nutrition and health. World Health Organization data clearly show…
PREVENTOMICS project materials have been distributed during the “I Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis Symposium” hosted by the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER) from 28th – 29th of February in A Coruña, Spain. During the event, project partners’ representatives from OAFI presented the project to all attendees approaching its booth, in which PREVENTOMICS materials were also distributed.…
PREVENTOMICS project has been presented to 4th year Dietetics’ students during a seminar on Nutrigenomics hosted by the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow, Poland, last 26th of November. During the session, scientific basis for the personalised nutrition has been provided and PREVENTOMICS has been shown as a key European project with a novel approach…
Project partner OAFI has presented PREVENTOMICS at the international Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, which took place from 8th-13th of November in Atlanta, Georgia (EUA). This meeting is an important international event that every year counts with the participation of more than 15.000 doctors and professionals specialised in rheumatology and medicine. Representatives…
The PREVENTOMICS project has been presented at the 7th Central European Congress on Obesity (CECON) which took place in Kliczków, Poland, from 12th-14th September 2019. During the event, Malgorzata Malczewska-Malec, project partner from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), presented a lecture focused on genetic changes in obesity which includes a presentation of the PREVENTOMICS…
Małgorzata Malczewska-Malec, chair of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry of the Jagiellonian University has participated at the Festival of Science and the Arts, celebrated in Kraków, Poland, from 16th – 18th of May 2019. This was the 19th edition of the event, which aims to familiarise the city’s residents with the academic achievements of Krakow’s…
