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Diet and Gene Interactions: Equal Partners in Health? | ||||
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion-USDA and The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health
, The Jefferson Auditorium, USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. (Enter through Wing 4 of the South Building) December 6, 2000 |
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The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion is pleased to announce the upcoming symposium on Diet and Gene Interactions: Equal Partners in Health? to be held Wednesday, December 6, 2000, in the Department of Agricuture's Jefferson Auditorium. USDA Secretary Dan Glickman and USDA Under Secretary Shirley Watkins will open the symposium followed by Conference Chairs Rajen S. Anand of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion and Artemis P. Simopoulos of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health. The goals and objectives of the symposium are to discuss the relationship between diet and genes, specifically the role of genetic variation and dietary response in the susceptibility to chronic diseases and in determining nutritional requirements. Genetic factors contribute to virtually every human disease by conferring susceptibility or resistance, affecting the severity or progression of disease, and interacting with environmental factors that modify disease course and expression. Much of the current biomedical research in both the public and private sectors is based upon the expectation that understanding the genetic basis of disease will revolutionize diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Defining and understanding the role of genetic factors indisease will allow the non-genetic, environmental contributions to disease be more clearly identified and understood. In the past, genetics and nutrition were considered two competing forces * nature versus nurture. |
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Organized by: |
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion-USDA and The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health |
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Invited Speakers: |
Scientific Speakers Include Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. (USA) * Genetic Variation and Nutrition: An Overview Ronald Krauss, M.D. (USA) * Genetic Variation and Dietary Response: Its Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Steven Hunt, Ph.D. (USA) * Dietary Sodium, Genetic Variation, and High Blood Pressure Anne M. Molloy, Ph.D. (Ireland) * The Role of Genetic Variation in Establishing Nutritional Requirements: Folate, A Case in Point Robert F. Murray, Jr., M.D. (USA) * Methodology: State of the Art, Present and Future Donald B. Jump, Ph.D. (USA) * Nutrients and Gene Expression Dennis A. Savaiano, Ph.D. (USA) * Dietary Management of Lactose Intolerance: Environmental Adaptation to Genetic Variation Bruce A. Watkins, Ph.D. (USA) * Overview of the Center for Enhancing Foods to Protect Health at Purdue University Frank Booth, Ph.D. (USA) * Physical Activity and Gene Expression |
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Deadline for Abstracts: |
not applicable |
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Registration: |
For registration and additional informaton, go to www.cnpp.usda.gov. (Note new website address.You may now access the CNPP website at either www.cnpp.usda.gov or www.usda.gov/cnpp). Registration is free. |
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Email for Requests and Registration: | cgnh@bellatlantic.net | |||
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