The students of the Master's Degree European University in Food, Nutrition and Metabolism (E-MENU) participated from December 2 to 4 in the Winter Meeting of the UK Nutrition Society, which was held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. This is an event that each year addresses a different topic and, on this occasion, focused on per diem expenses and digestive diseases, in conjunction with the British Society of Gastroenterologists (BSG) and BAPEN.

During the meeting, students had the opportunity to listen to speakers from more than 10 countries, who addressed various topics related to nutrition, gastrointestinal tract diseases and other pathologies. They also attended various presentations of student projects from postgraduate program.

The scientific meeting addressed the complex, bidirectional relationship between per diem expenses and digestion. Healthy diets promote proper gastrointestinal health, and poor per diem expenses can exacerbate all subject systemic diseases. At the same time, having underlying problems in the gastrointestinal tract can trigger different conditions of malabsorption and malnutrition.

"It has been an extremely enriching experience for our academic training ," comments Alfonso André Sosa, one of the participating students. "Multidisciplinary conferences like this one allow us to keep updated on new therapies and diagnostic methods available in the medical-nutritional field, in order to provide a quality service to the population at nutritional risk." He adds that, in addition, a comprehensive management of pathologies such as celiac disease, food intolerances, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, deficiency diseases, among others, is extremely important to ensure a favorable prognosis in patients.

"That academic environment is conducive to discussing ideas, analyzing issues from a different point of view, relearning concepts and improving our store of knowledge about nutrition, so activities like this serve to open our horizons and eliminate preconceptions we may have about certain pathologies."