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"We transmit indigestible messages, we must be creative in the nutritional Education ". This was stated by Alma Palau, president of the committee General of the Official Colleges of Dietitians-Nutritionists, on the 25th anniversary of the programs of study of Human Nutrition and Dietetics of the University of Navarra.

Palau has participated in the IX conference of update in Nutrition organized by the University of Navarra. These conference have brought together nearly 200 national and international experts dietitians-nutritionists to discuss how to act in the treatment and prevention of diseases.

In patient care, according to María Lecha, dietician-nutritionist at the Nutrition and Dietetics Unit of the Moisés Broggi Hospital in Barcelona, "individualized dietary treatment adapted to their needs" is necessary. This is the case of celiacs, "whom we must teach to be competent and responsible in the face of their disease", according to Nerea Segura, expert of the association of Celiacs of Euskadi. "Diets evolve, as does knowledge, products and labeling. In addition to providing information internship and support, the dietician-nutritionist must encourage the patient to continually update his or her knowledge," she continues.

On strategies of Education nutritional also took place a workshop on 'Nutritional Coaching', at position by María Hernández Bascuñana, director of EISANE Health & Business School.

PREDIMED Symposium

The training on nutrition will continue on Saturday with a workshop dedicated to 'Personalized Nutrition and Obesity' and to the 'Symposium on the essay PREDIMED'. In this, the latest advances, effects on biomarkers or cardiovascular prevention of this essay whose goal has been to assess the functions of the Mediterranean per diem expenses in the prevention of chronic diseases will be presented. There will also be a lecture on the integration of epidemiological research in nutrition with new advances in biology at position by the international expert from Harvard University, Frank Hu.

quotation The program will continue on Monday under the degree scroll "Symposium on Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiometabolic Prevention: OMICS, Epigenetics and Epidemiology" and will be attended by specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and other institutions such as INSERME of Toulouse or the universities of Lund, Athens, Valencia and Reus. 

The presentations include "Nutrition and metabolism: a systematic review", "New cardiometabolic risk factors: Where genes and per diem expenses meet"; or "per diem expenses Mediterranean and health in the elderly", among others. There will also be a tribute to the late Dimitrios Trichopoulos, father of modern epidemiology and great advocate of the Mediterranean per diem expenses .