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20th Annual congress on Eating Disorders, Obesity and Nutrition, will be organized around the theme Emphasizing latest Innovations in the Field of Eating Disorders, Obesity & Nutrition

Eating Disorder 2018 is comprised of 26 tracks and 136 sessions designed to offer comprehensive sessions that address current issues in Eating Disorder 2018.

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An eating disorder is a condition in which a person takes excessive food intake which affects a person's physical or mental health. It occurs in both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, and from all cultural backgrounds. The most common eating disorders include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. It can develop during in any stage in life but appears in teens and young adulthood. According to the survey conducted by the National Eating Disorder Association around the word 70 million people are prone to eating disorders. Since 1990's dietary problems have been progressively regular in Singapore.

  • Track 1-1 Anorexia Nervosa
  • Track 1-2Adolescent eating and weight loss behavior
  • Track 1-3Bulimia Nervosa
  • Track 1-4Abnormal and maladaptive eating
  • Track 1-5Binge Eating Disorder
  • Track 1-6Food Addiction

Eating disorders symptoms and behaviors are complex. Many are caused by malnutrition. Some physical symptoms of eating disorders are weakness, feeling cold, reduced beard growth in men, Sleep problems, Dental problems, Muscle weakness Other possible manifestations are dry lips, burning feeling on toungue, parotid gland swelling. Though often associated with obesity it can occur in normal weight individuals also

  • Track 2-1Amenorrhea
  • Track 2-2Reduction in waking erections
  • Track 2-3Ritualistic food behaviors
  • Track 2-4 Low body weigh
  • Track 2-5Cognitive distortions

Scientists are still researching possible biochemical or biological causes of eating disorders. In some individuals with eating disorders, certain chemicals in the brain that control hunger, appetite, and digestion have been found to be unbalanced. The exact meaning and implications of these imbalances remain under investigation. Eating disorders often run in families. Current research indicates that there are significant genetic contributions to eating disorders.

  • Track 3-1Antidepressants
  • Track 3-2BDNF - brain-derived neurotropic factor Cortisol
  • Track 3-3Genetic predisposition
  • Track 3-4Over-the Counter Drugs (OTC)
  • Track 3-5Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)

Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is a holistic and therapeutic method for treating medical conditions and correlating symptoms. Medical Nutrition Therapy is established on the idea that several medical conditions progress or are made worse by an inadequate diet or insufficient nutrient intake. The components of MNT include; Intake assessment, Dietary modification, Patient education, Aftercare. Therapy also includes creating goals for the patient’s treatment and developing a focused nutrition prescription that entails patient education along with self-management training.  Initial nutrition therapy assessment sessions may occur over a period of 60-75 minutes. Medical Nutrition Therapy for several diseases and conditions with the intent of improving overall health and quality of life. The goal of MNT in the eating disorder treatment is to stabilize complicated medical conditions, normalize food intake, establish healthier and normal eating behaviors, and promote the founding for an improved relationship with food

  • Track 4-1Chronic/Severe dieting
  • Track 4-2Eliminating specific food items
  • Track 4-3Intake assessment
  • Track 4-4Dietary modification
  • Track 4-5Hunger and Fullness
  • Track 4-6 Healthy exercise
  • Track 4-7Nutritional supplement assessment

Treatment for an eating disorder can rely upon the specifics of the disorder and can be tailored to every individual. Generally, the goals of eating disorder treatment are to restore the person to a healthy weight, treat any psychological issues associated with or coexisting with the disorder, and reduce in behavior or thoughts that contribute to the disorder. Alternative therapies may be helpful for a few individuals as an adjunct to psychological, nutritional and medical treatments. For example meditation will facilitate the reducing levels of anxiety or massage will facilitate to reconnect with our bodies. Every approach is totally different, but different therapies are typically involved with treating the person as a whole, as well as their mental and physical health.

  • Track 5-1Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Track 5-2Medical Nutrition Therapy
  • Track 5-3Equine Therapy
  • Track 5-4Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Track 5-5Art Therapy
  • Track 5-6Dance Movement Therapy
  • Track 5-7Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy

Eating disorders cause a wide variety of complications, some of them life-threatening. The more severe or long lasting the eating disorder, the more likely you are to experience serious complications. Some of the underlying issues that are associated with an eating disorder include low self-esteem, depression, feelings of loss of control, feelings of worthless, identity concerns, family communication problems and an inability to cope with emotions. Patient suffering from anorexia nervosa will have a number of potential complications which include minor side effects such as fatigue or lack of energy as well as major ongoing health problems or even death. Whereas patient suffering from Bulimia nervosa often feel trapped in this cycle of deregulated eating, and there is a risk for major medical consequences associated with bulimic behaviors.

  • Track 6-1Reduce bone density
  • Track 6-2Constantly feeling cold
  • Track 6-3muscle weakness

Obesity is a medical condition where the excess body fat accumulates in the body to an extent that it has a negative effect on health. It is defined by using body mass index (BMI) and is evaluated in terms of fat distribution and total cardiovascular risk factors. IF a person’s body weight is more than 20%  is consider as obese .Prevention of Obesity can be done by changes in diet, exercising and other medical treatments. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility. A person is more likely to develop obesity if one or both parents are obese. Obesity can be prevented by changes in diet, exercising and other medical treatments

  • Track 7-1Types of Obesity
  • Track 7-2Epidemiology of Obesity
  • Track 7-3Global Issues

In 2001, six genes were connected to monogenic human weight and no normal variations were connected with polygenic weight. However genes do not always predict future health but genes and behavior may both be needed for a person to be overweight. The % of obesity which can be attributed to genetics varies widely depending on the population .Genes can cause obesity disorders as Bardet-Biedl syndrome and Prader- willi syndrome. In some cases multiple genes may increase one’s susceptibility for obesity and require outside factors; such as abundant food supply or little physical activity. We propose an ignore of significant lessons gained from 15 years of research in the field of the hereditary qualities and weight

  • Track 8-1Biological pathways
  • Track 8-2Genetic continuums
  • Track 8-3Cellular, Molecular and Genetic bases of Obesity
  • Track 8-4Hereditary Factors
  • Track 8-5 Epigenetics

Obesity Management includes lifestyle changes, medications, or surgery and the main treatment for obesity consists of dieting and physical exercise. Knowing what your body desires is very important to weight management and may control overconsumption and under consumption of food. Weight management doesn't include fad diets that promote fast, temporary weight loss. It focuses on the long-term results that are achieved through slow weight loss, followed by retention of an ideal weight for age, sex and height. . Diet programs may produce weight loss over the short term period, but maintaining this weight loss is frequently difficult and often requires making exercise and a lower calorie diet a permanent part of an individual's lifestyle

  • Track 9-1Hypertension
  • Track 9-2Abnormal obesity
  • Track 9-3Dietary Supplements
  • Track 9-4Metabolic Outcomes
  • Track 9-5Pharmacologic Therapy
  • Track 9-6Herbal Weight loss Medication

The incidence of weight problems in the Western international has expanded dramatically at some stage in the current a long time. Treatment of obesity begins with complete way of life management (i.e., weight loss plan, bodily pastime, behavior amendment). Scientific evidence suggests that multidisciplinary applications reliably produce and preserve modest weight reduction between 5% and 10% for the long-time period. As with all continual clinical conditions, powerful control of weight problems ought to be based on a partnership among a fairly influenced patient and a devoted group of health experts.

  • Track 10-1Clinical management
  • Track 10-2Endocrine Surgery
  • Track 10-3Islet cell transplantation
  • Track 10-4Clinical management
  • Track 10-5Advanced Inch Loss therapy

The major diseases associated with obesity are hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes, as well as certain types of cancer. Less well-known complications include hepatic steatosis, gallbladder disease, pulmonary function impairment, endocrine abnormalities, obstetric complications, trauma to the weight-bearing joints, gout, cutaneous disease, proteinuria, increased hemoglobin concentration, and possibly immunologic impairment. A U- or J-shaped curve illustrates the relation between body mass index and the degree of these various complications. This relationship can be used to provide guidelines for assessing treatment of obesity.

  • Track 11-1Coronary heart disease
  • Track 11-2Type 2 diabetes
  • Track 11-3Gallstones
  • Track 11-4Osteoarthritis

The link between obesity and risk for several kinds of cancer is currently well established by over a decade of scientific research. Overweight or obesity is liable for nearly twenty fifth of the relative contribution to cancer incidence that ranks second solely to tobacco use. Obesity is strongly tied to several of the most common types of cancers, are post-menopausal carcinoma, colorectal cancer and cancers of the endometrium, kidney, thyroid and bladder. However, evidence is less convincing and somewhat controversial for prostate cancer, lung cancer and pre-menopausal breast cancer; several studies report an inverse relationship between obesity and these particular cancers.

 

  • Track 12-1Obesity and breast cancer
  • Track 12-2Obesity and thyroid cancer
  • Track 12-3Obesity and Colorectal cancer

During the previous 20 years, obesity among grown-ups has risen altogether in the United States. The most recent information from the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrates that 33% of U.S. grown-ups 20 years old and more established—more than 100 million individuals—are stout. This expansion is not restricted to grown-ups, but rather has likewise influenced youngsters. Among youth, 18 percent of kids matured 6-11 years and 21 percent of youngsters matured 12–19 years are viewed as obese. These rates of obese have significant ramifications for Americans' wellbeing. Albeit one of the national well-being goals for the year 2020 is to diminish the commonness of stoutness among grown-ups by 10 percent, current information shows that the circumstance is not progressing. Hopkins GIM employees are examining overweight the full scope of its characteristic history and difficulties, and in addition attempting to battle the plague by exploring different techniques and intervention

  • Track 13-1Diabetes and its complications
  • Track 13-2Probiotics for human health, New innovations and emerging trends
  • Track 13-3Drug treatments and devices for obesity
  • Track 13-4Insulin and islet biology

The eating regimen of an organism is what it eat which is largely decided with the aid of the provision, the processing and palatability of ingredients. A healthy food plan includes training of food and storage techniques that keep nutrients from oxidation, heat or leaching, and that reduce chance of contamination. There is growing scientific and clinical hobby in the interactions of vitamins and fitness as part of the growing older system in Food Science. This interest is due to the important function that nutrients play in the course of the existence span. This position affects the boom and improvement of the frame in the course of childhood, affects the hazard of acute and continual illnesses, the upkeep of physiological strategies of Nutrition and the biological technique of ageing. It is a critical to recognize the relationships between vitamins and the getting older method from delivery to antique age. A bad weight loss program may additionally reason fitness troubles, causing  Nutritional deficiency diseases along with blindness, anemia, scurvy, preterm delivery, stillbirth and cretinism health-threatening conditions like obesity and metabolic syndrome and such commonplace chronic systemic illnesses as cardiovascular sickness, diabetes, and osteoporosis. A negative food plan can reason the wasting of kwashiorkor in acute instances, and the stunting of marasmus in chronic cases of malnutrition. Nutritional complement remedy can be suitable for principal depression, bipolar ailment, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive ailment, the 4 maximum commonplace mental problems in advanced countries. Supplements which have been studied most for mood elevation and stabilization encompass eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid (each of which an omega-3 fatty acid contained in fish oil but now not in flaxseed oil), nutrition B12, folic acid, and inositol.

  • Track 14-1Bio active Nutrients
  • Track 14-2Molecular Gastronomy
  • Track 14-3Public Health Nutrition
  • Track 14-4Animal Nutrition
  • Track 14-5Maternal and Infant Nutrition
  • Track 14-6Dietary Metabolics
  • Track 14-7Eco nutrition

Nutritional science is the study of how an organism is nourished, and includes the study of Nutrition and metabolism. Nutritional science shelters a wide spectrum of disciplines. Nutrients must be obtained from diet, since the human body does not synthesize them and are used to generate energy, notice and respond to environmental surroundings, move, excrete wastes, respire. Healthy food habit is becoming ever more of a science, with new research showing us which foods may decrease our risk of disease, and which are progressively pointed to as the culprits behind ill health. Researchers are looking to better recognise how nutrients work in our bodies, with studies that investigate the diets of people with heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. There are various classes of nutrients such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals which are required for the body to function and maintain overall health

  • Track 15-1Nutrition and metabolism
  • Track 15-2Nutrition literacy
  • Track 15-3Food Science of Animal Resources
  • Track 15-4Nutritional Biochemistry
  • Track 15-5Dietary guidelines and nutrition assessment studies

A balanced diet is one that provides your body the nutrients it needs to perform properly. The conditions for a balanced diet are often met from associate assortment of plant and animal primarily based foods. A diet won't be an equivalent for everybody. Most are completely different and infrequently, people would require a special quantity and type of nutrients. Consumption the proper foods and responding to what our body needs is called having a balanced diet. It’s vital to consume these six nutrients on a daily to create and maintain healthy biological process. Poor health are often caused by an imbalance of nutrients, either an excess or deficiency, which, in turn, affects bodily functions

  • Track 16-1Macronutrients and Micronutrients
  • Track 16-2Calorie Counting
  • Track 16-3Nutrient profiling
  • Track 16-4Nutrition Disorders
  • Track 16-5Different types of Diet plans

It’s no secret that the amount of calories individuals eat and drink includes a direct impact on their weight: Consume the same number of calories that the body burns over time, and weight stays stable. Consume more than the body burns body weight goes up. Less, weight goes down. Several of those that help to prevent diseases with weight control-foods like whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Recent reviews the research on dietary intake and weight management; highlighting diet methods that also facilitate prevent chronic diseases

  • Track 17-1Measuring Food Intake
  • Track 17-2Nutrients, Non-nutrients and energy
  • Track 17-3Global Malnutrition
  • Track 17-4Lipids in Human Nutrition
  • Track 17-5Chemicals affecting Food safety

Food exceptional is the satisfactory characteristics of food this is suitable for consumers. This consists of outside factors as look (size, form, color, gloss, and consistency), texture, and taste elements together with federal grade standards (e.g. Of eggs) and internal (chemical, physical, microbial) Nutritional score systems are strategies of ranking or score food merchandise or meals classes to talk the dietary worth of food in a simplified way to the audience. Rating structures are advanced through governments, noncommercial teams, or private institutions and agencies.

  • Track 18-1Synthetic Vitamins
  • Track 18-2Nutraceuticals
  • Track 18-3Functional foods
  • Track 18-4Food allergy
  • Track 18-5Intolerance
  • Track 18-6Adulterated food
  • Track 18-7Internal factors
  • Track 18-8Cholesterol free
  • Track 18-9Food quality management
  • Track 18-10Food laws and regulations
  • Track 18-11Food policy
  • Track 18-12Food safety
  • Track 18-13Food engineering

Nutritional epidemiology is a new field of medical research and is defined as an area of epidemiology that involves investigation to study the importance of nutrition in the etiology of disease and to monitor the nutritional status of populations

  • Track 19-1Role of nutrition in the etiology of disease
  • Track 19-2Monitor the nutritional status of populations
  • Track 19-3Innovative human therapeutics
  • Track 19-4Importance of Nutrition in Chronic Diseases
  • Track 19-5Epidemiological studies on nutrition
  • Track 20-1Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases
  • Track 20-2Food Allergies in Pediatrics
  • Track 20-3Pediatric Malnutrition Effects
  • Track 20-4Pediatric Obesity Consequences

Clinical nutrition is of central importance for our ability to handle diseases generally infections, surgery and trauma in particular. the target of nutrition therapy is improved patient outcome by-

1) Avoiding deficiency disease

2) Maintaining body tissue and functioning plasma protein stores

3) Preventing macro- and micronutrient deficiency

No patient should have inadequate intake of energy and substrates in modern medical aid treatment. The parenteral route can be used prosperously when other alternatives of pabulum are arduous or infeasible. Nowadays, planarity adequate pabulum can be performed by giving total parenteral alimentation (TPN). The regimen can be individualized to cover different needs. In the short term we can compensate for perturbances in the longer term we can maintain alimental balance.

  • Track 21-1Nutrition & Cardiovascular Health
  • Track 21-2Considerations during intensive care
  • Track 21-3Parenteral nutrition
  • Track 21-4Enteral Nutrition
  • Track 21-5Nutritional assessment
  • Track 21-6Nutrition Physiology
  • Track 21-7Role of Nutrition in prevention of other diseases
  • Track 21-8kidney failure, liver failure

Current research in Nutrition is exhibiting us which foods may lower our peril of disease, and which are responsible for ill health. Researchers are looking to better understand Pabulum Safety network, Victuals and nutrient intake dietary pattern and dietary pattern, Pabulum Quality, Safety and Sustainability. Latest research is providing advances erudition about the correlation between alimentation and health

  • Track 22-1Food Safety Network
  • Track 22-2Food & Nutrient Intake Dietary Pattern and Dietary Guide
  • Track 22-3Food Quality, Safety and Sustainability
  • Track 22-4Public Health and Consumer Protection

Due to the onset of urbanization the fresh market source is disappearing and more of processed food is being utilized by the public. High increase in the consumption of dairy and poultry is also seen throughout the world.  Due to such transitions in the diet several negative health implications are seen in in the public due to the presence of harmful components in food like pesticide, antibiotic residues and chemical fertilizers. The recent studies showed that genetically modified food have reported to increase obesity in the population

  • Track 23-1Organic food
  • Track 23-2Genetically Modified Food
  • Track 23-3Pesticide and chemical fertilizer residues in vegetables
  • Track 23-4Meat consumption and cancer risk

Current research in Nutrition is screening which foods may inferior the danger of disease, and which are accountable for illness. Researchers across the sphere are looking for better understanding of Food Safety network, Food and nutrient intake dietary pattern and dietary guide, Food Quality, Safety and Sustainability

  • Track 24-1Essential micronutrients and macronutrients
  • Track 24-2Increased nutritional research
  • Track 24-3Nutrition–Developed vs Underdeveloped Country
  • Track 24-4Nutrition Transition

Public health refers to the technological know-how and artwork of stopping disorder, prolonging life and selling human health via prepared efforts and informed alternatives of society, organizations, public and private, communities and people.  Public health carries the combining processes of epidemiology, biostatistics and fitness services. Environmental fitness, community health, behavioral fitness, fitness economics, public coverage, intellectual health and occupational safety and fitness are different crucial subfields. The main purpose of public health intervention is to enhance health and first-class of life through prevention and remedy of ailment

  • Track 25-1Public Health & Epidemiology
  • Track 25-2Health & Community Nutrition
  • Track 25-3Health & Climate Change
  • Track 25-4Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Track 25-5Environmental Health
  • Track 25-6Nutrition & Occupational Health
  • Track 25-7Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Track 25-8Healthcare & Management
  • Track 25-9Health Policy Research