PROGRAM

TUESDAY MARCH 4

WELCOME ADDRESS 8:00-8:30 a.m.

PLENARY LECTURE

8:30-9:20 a.m.
Diet, nutrients and cancer prevention: The Nutrigenomics Era (View)

Chair: Joan Sabaté
David Heber

SYMPOSIA

9:40-11:10 a.m.
Plant-based diets and cancer
Chair: Johanna Lampe

• Diet patterns, plant foods and cancer risk: New epidemiological findings and strategies for future (View)
  Tim Key
• Reducing recurrence in breast cancer survivors with plant foods (View)
  John Pierce
• Inter individual differences in response to plant-based diets – Implications for cancer risk (View)
  Johanna Lampe

11:20-12:20 a.m.
Plant versus marine n-3 polyunsaturated fat
Chair: David Jenkins

• Walnuts versus fatty fish and cardiovascular risk factors (View)
  Sujatha Rajaram
• α-linolenic acid and prostate cancer (View)
  Joel Simon

LUNCH 12:20-2:00 p.m.

DEBATE

2:00-3:20 p.m.
Do vegetarians have to eat fish for optimal cardiovascular protection? (View)
Moderator: David Jenkins
Debators: Alexander Leaf, Iqwal Mangat

SYMPOSIA

3:40-5:40 p.m.
Current issues on soy
Chair: Mark Messina

• Is isoflavone metabolism the key to the efficacy of soy foods? (View)
  Johanna Lampe
• Health implications of soy infant formula (View)
  Thomas Badger
• Making sense of the soy and breast cancer relationship (View)
  Mark Messina
• Soy ferritin: implications for iron status of vegetarians (View)
  Bo Lönnerdal

POSTER SESSION

6:30-8:00 p.m.
Poster Category 1: Nutritional Epidemiology (6:30-7:15 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 2: Nutrition Education (6:30-7:15 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 3: Clinical Nutrition (7:15-8:00 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 4: Nutrition & Chronic Disease (7:15-8:00 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 5: Nutritional Assessment (7:15-8:00 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 6: Nutrients/Phytochemicals (7:15-8:00 p.m.) Authors present
Poster Category 7: Others (7:15-8:00 p.m.) Authors present

CONGRESS RECEPTION 6:30-8:00 p.m.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5

PLENARY LECTURE

8:00-8:50 a.m.
Vegetarian Diets and Health Outcomes: What we know and where do we go from here? (View)
Chair: Synnove Knutsen
Gary Fraser

SYMPOSIA

8:50-11:10 a.m.
Nutritional and Health Status of Vegetarians
Chair: Winston Craig

• The pros and cons of vegan diets (View)
  Winston Craig
• Health status of vegetarians: An update (View)
  Tim Key
• Nutritional status of different vegetarian populations: opportunities and challenges
  Nutritional status of Seventh-day Adventists (View)
  Vegetarian diets among Latin Americans: Challenges and opportunities in research (View)
  Nutritional status of Flemish vegetarians: opportunities and challenges (View)
  Panelists: Pramil Singh, Julio Acosta-Navarro, Peter Clarys

SYMPOSIA

11:10-12:40 a.m.
Plant-based diets, obesity and diabetes
Chair: Sujatha Rajaram

• Effective vegetarian diets for weight loss and glycemic control: A high vegetable protein diet perspective (View)
  David Jenkins
• Effective vegetarian diets for weight loss and glycemic control: A low-fat vegan diet perspective (View)
  Neal Barnard
• Plant foods and plant-based diets: Protective against obesity? (View)
  P.K. Newby

LUNCH 12:40-2:20 p.m.

SIMULTANEOUS SESSION

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 1 - Nutritional Epidemiology
Chair: Bert Connell; Co-Chair: Larry Beeson

SYMPOSIA

2:20-4:20 p.m.
Plant based diets - Nutritional perspective and non-nutritional perspectives
Chair: Ella Haddad

• Predicting serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (View)
  Jacqueline Chan
• Cultural aspects of vegetarian eating (View)
  Susanne Montgomery
• Vegetarian Nutrition: Intended and actual effects (View)
  Ingrid Hoffmann, Katharina Bernsmeier, Lena Wagner
• Vitamin B-12 and homocysteine status among vegetarians- A global perspective (View)
  Ibrahim Elmadfa

DEBATE

4:40-5:50 p.m.
Dairy foods - Should they be part of a healthy vegetarian diet?
PRO (View) CON (View)
Moderator: Joan Sabaté
Debators: Connie Weaver, Walter Willett

CONGRESS BANQUET 7:00 p.m.

THURSDAY MARCH 6

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2

7:45-9:00 a.m.
Session 2A - Nutrition & Chronic Disease
Chair: Serena Tonstad; Co-Chair: Stoyan Grakov

Session 2B - Nutritional Status
Chair: Ingrid Hoffamnn; Co-Chair: Kathryn Knecht

SYMPOSIA

9:10-11:00 a.m.
Food based versus nutrient based dietary guidelines
Chair: David Jacobs

• Food not nutrient is the fundamental unit in nutrition (View)
  David Jacobs
• PANEL: How to better position vegetarian diets in the upcoming dietary guidelines
  Moderator: David Jacobs
  Panelists:
  Victor Fulgoni, (View)
  Kathryn Greaves, (View)
  Ella Haddad, (View)
  Amy Lanou (View)

SYMPOSIA

11:20 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Plant based diets and aging
Chair James Joseph

• Epidemiological perspective on aging, longevity and plant based diets (View)
  Walter Willett
• Role of antioxidants from berries and other sources in brain aging and diseases associated with aging (View)
  James Joseph
• Diet restriction versus diet selection: A convergence of concepts (View)
  Donald Ingram

LUNCH 12:40-2:20 p.m.

SYMPOSIA

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Current issues on nuts
Chair: Michelle Wien

• Nuts and health - Epidemiological perspective: What's new? (View)
  Joan Sabaté
• Nuts and newer cardiovascular disease risk factors (View)
  Emilio Ros
• Nuts, metabolic syndrome and diabetes (View)
  Cyril Kendall

3:50-5:20 p.m.
Climate change and food production - Dietary choices
Chair: Sam Soret; Co-Chair: Seth Wiafe

• Environmental impacts of food production and post-production of meat and plant-based diets (View)
  Hal Marlow
• Potential contribution of food consumption patterns to climate change (View)
  Annika Carlsson-Kanyama
• The prospects of food production (and consumption) in the context of global climate change (View)
  Gidon Eshel

CONGRESS CONCLUDES 5:30 p.m.

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