Main Conference Topics/Sessions
Session 1: Functional Food Definition and the Status of Functional Foods in Japan, China, USA and other Countries
- The regulations, policy, and labeling of functional foods in Japan
- Weaknesses and strong points of FOSHU/Food for Special Health Usage
- What is the status of Functional Foods in the USA? Expert opinions from NIH, USDA, and FDA
- How the new definition of Functional Foods can help to improve the status of functional foods word wide
Session 2: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Obesity
- Epidemiology of obesity
- The modern mechanisms of obesity; energy metabolism and obesity; neurobiological mechanisms of obesity; microbiological mechanisms of obesity; pathophysiologic mechanisms of obesity
- Biomarkers of obesity
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of obesity
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for obesity
Session 3: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Diabetes
- Epidemiology of diabetes
- The modern mechanisms of diabetes
- Biomarkers of diabetes
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of diabetes
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for diabetes
Session 4: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Neurological Diseases
- Epidemiology of mental and neurological diseases
- Mechanisms of neurological diseases
- Biomarkers of different mental and neurological diseases
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of neurological diseases
- Functional foods for mental and neurological diseases
- Nutrition, Functional and Medical foods for neurological diseases
Session 5: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)
- Epidemiology of CVD
- Biomarkers of different cardiovascular diseases
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for CVD
Session 6: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Cancer
- Epidemiology of Cancer
- Biomarkers of different types of cancer
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of different types of cancer
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical Foods for the Cancer
Session 7: Functional Foods with Bioactive Compound(s): Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases
- Functional foods and other non-communicable diseases
- Bioactive compounds and other non-communicable diseases
- The effects of medical food on biomarkers of non-communicable diseases
Session 8: Safety of the Bioactive Compounds and Functional Foods
- Food-Drug Interactions
- Safety of bioactive compounds at efficacious levels
- Safety of functional foods at efficacious levels
- Regulatory issues and health claims
Session 9: Biomarkers and Functional Food
- Biomarkers and functional foods
- Biomarkers available for assessing diet-related changes
- How can biomarkers improve functional food products development process?
- The importance of Monitoring Biomarkers in Functional food Science
- FDA’s Biomarker Qualification Program and creation of new functional foods
Session 10: Coffee consumption benefits and adverse events: Session Chair: Gabriela Riscuta MD, CNS, Program Director, Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Coffee composition and nutritional information
- Identification and quantification of bioactive compounds in coffee
- Coffee and its consumption: Benefits and risks, epidemiological and clinical studies
- Coffee consumption and risk of chronic disease: Clinical and epidemiological studies
- Functional properties of coffee and coffee by-products
Special session (12): Functional Foods in Chronic Kidney Disease. Session Chair: Amrendra Ajay, PhD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease
- The modern mechanisms of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Biomarkers of Chronic Kidney Disease
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Chronic Kidney Disease
Session 13: Current Research and Development of New Functional and Healthy Food Products.
- Incentives for functional and healthy food research and development
- Consumer acceptance of healthy and functional food products
- Functional food composition and dietary intake databases
- Food vehicles for delivery bioactive compounds
- Research, development and marketing of new healthy and functional food products
Session 15: Nutritional Approach to Manage Chronic Allergies with Functional Foods
- Chronic allergies: What causes them and what are the symptoms?
- Functional foods in the management of food allergy
- Dietary management of chronic food allergy in children
- The role of nutrition in the development and functioning of the immune system
- The role of prebiotics and probiotics in the prevention of chronic allergy
Session 16: The Human Microbiome, Diet, Functional Foods, and Health
- The microbiome, health, and disease
- How diet impacts the microbiome
- Diet, obesity, and the gut microbiome
- Impact of microbiome on oral and gastrointestinal health
- Future market of functional food products for human microbiome
- Translation of probiotic and prebiotic science into probiotic and prebiotic foods
- How to build and preserve health capital through food
