Suggested Conference Sessions and Topics
Session 1: Functional Food Definition and the Status in Japan, 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
Special Session 2: Japanese traditional medicine (Kampo medicine)
- Kampo medicine: Differences between functional food, crude drugs, and low MW drugs
- Crude herbal drugs in Kampo medicine: How they can be used as functional foods
- Japanese traditional medicine (including Kampo medicine): How to assess its constituents
- Japanese traditional medicine: How to evaluate its activity on disease
- Pre-disease ('Mibyo' in Japanese): How to treat Mibyo with Kampo medicine consisting of functional foods
Special Session 3: Traditional medicines in China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Indonesia
- Chinese, Taiwanese, or Korean traditional medicines: Differences from Japanese traditional medicine
- Indonesian traditional medicine (Jamu): What is Jamu? Is Jamu crude herbal drugs or functional foods? Principles and Recipes of Jamu
- Pharmacological aspects of Jamu, such as anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and anti-cancer effects
Special Session 4: Traditional medicines and functional foods
- How to find new functional foods using traditional medicine
- Food science: Qualification and quantification of beneficial components (e.g., HPLC and biological assays)
- Functional foods for animals, such as fish (as replacement for antibiotics)
- Development of functional foods on the market
- Food economics: food industries and functional foods on the market
Session 5: Functional Food Ingredients: Sources and Potential Benefits in Public Health
Session 6: Functional Foods for Chronic Diseases
6a: 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
6b: 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
6c: 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
6d: 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
6e: 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
Special session 10: Bioavailability of bioactive compounds:
- Food structuring and bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
- Edible delivery systems for bioactive compounds
- Micro- and nano-encapsulation
- Impact of processing technologies/conditions on bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
- Underlying mechanisms of bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
Session 11: Current Research and Development of New Functional Food Products.
- Incentives for functional food research and development
- Consumer acceptance of functional food products
- Functional food composition and dietary intake databases
- Food vehicles for delivery bioactive compounds
- Research, development and marketing of new functional food products
Session 12: Nutritional Approach to Manage Chronic Allergies with Asian Traditional Medicine and Functional Foods
- Chronic allergies: What causes them and what are the symptoms?
- Asian Traditional Medicine in the management of food allergy
- 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
