Researchers ACCDiS exhibited at the first International Symposium on food, nutrition, fitness and health
In the dependencies of the Institute of nutrition and food technology of the U. of Chile (INTA) developed the First International Symposium on food, Nutrition, Physical activity and health (First International Symposium of Food, Nutrition, Physical Fitness and Health).
This event took place between Wednesday 27th and Friday 29th March, instance in which addressed, from different disciplines, key issues for the challenges of malnutrition, healthy and sustainable food, Genomic nutrition, nutrition and physical activity, socio-economic and cultural factors in urban planning and nutrition.
On the occasion, Dr. Alejandro Corvalan, principal investigator of ACCDiS, He presented the topic "non-communicable chronic diseases, reality and perspectives", occasion in which spoke about the work done at the Center for advanced chronic diseases, In addition to presenting challenges for the next five years of the Center.
"Healthy eating and life physically active", they are fundamental principles that promote a healthy life style. These aspects allow us to generate a discussion from the biological field, that they are also influenced by social and economic factors. In this reality, "Government policies are essential to promote an election among the population to have a healthy life", explained Dr. Rodrigo Troncoso, ACCDiS contributor, INTA member and one of the organizers of the event
On the other hand, Dr. Troncoso presented the theme "Regulation of hepatic lipid droplets by exercise" developed together with his team in collaboration with Espinosa Alejandra from the Faculty of Medicine of the U. of Chile. In it, shows how aerobic exercise is capable of modular training, the size and the degradation of lipid droplets in both in normal liver and in models of obesity by diets high in fat, relating it in addition to an improvement in fitness and in metabolic parameters.
Are there healthy obese? A controversial topic
In both, the researcher ACCDiS and INTA, Mariana Cifuentes, he exhibited the work "obesity and adipose tissue: is there the 'obese healthy'?”, a highly controversial for the medical and scientific community.
"At the present time, three of every four people have overweight or obese, and the message is that not all obese are equal, There are some who are metabolically healthy. For this reason, I presented the evidence that there are biological reasons and different responses of the adipose tissue from these people, They also have a different distribution of body fat. There is even evidence that there are those who do not benefit by a low weight, then limited public health resources patients should aim to obese metabolically", added Dr. Cifuentes.
In addition, collaborator ACCDiS noted that "many of the talks mentioned that health professionals frequently "reat" patients, make them feel guilty, then the people away from the medical system. In this sense for example, a person who fails to lose weight but actually changing your lifestyle, get something much more important: a change which Yes brings benefits in their metabolic health, which is much more relevant than a scale that tells you that you downloaded so many kilos", completed.
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