The 57th National Days of Dietetics and Nutrition
In Marseille, for three days, took place at the hospital of Timone, the 57th days of dietetics and nutrition. Specialists from the medical field made available to visitors and other health specialists, qualitative conferencesfor professional purposes as well as content more adapted to people new to the subject.
Specific annual days
To know everything about current nutritional issues, just look at the latest symposium proposed in Marseille on nutrition. It is sharp because it is proposed, presented, and fed exclusively byprofessionals in the medical field.
Denis Raccah, head of the endocrinology department at the Sainte-Marguerite University Hospital, opened these days.
The four themes discussed were:
- Obesity in children and adolescents,
- Micro nutrition,
- The current place of meat,
- General information on nutrition.
Apart from the last day open to all, the content of the exchanges was more oriented towards professionals. This is what makes the originality of this event in Marseille. Thus, dieticians, nutritionists and general practitioners were the target audience for three days.
In search of common sense
What emerges from the results concerning the informative meetingsis positive for the year 2016. Dr. Flora Bat-Pitault, child psychiatrist is an expert on the singular theme of “food beliefs and consumption”. This professional wants to make overweight people aware of the need not to erect rules into dogma and explains that many beliefs guide our food choices. According to the doctor, since the post-war period, there have been more and more preconceived ideas about food.
For her, vigilance is requiredbecause cognitive restriction concerns can be put in place. At that moment, obese subjects end up eating according to their own ideas even if they are wrong. For example, she cites snacking between meals or pasta that is, so to speak, fattening or eating more than three times a day. Yetonly the benchmark of satiety counts because nothing obliges us to eat at fixed times.
A device for diabetics
Professor Raccah’s conference on “perspectives in the treatment of diabetes” aimed to present a specific device entitled “Diabeloop”. In fact, it is a kind of organ that replaces the pancreas and measures blood sugar levels for the patient. The principle of operation is that of the “closed loop”. This “pancreas 2.0” autonomously controls the pump and delivers the necessary dose of insulin to subjects suffering from type 1 diabetes (200,000 cases in France). The device can only work when the patient’s blood sugar level has stabilized and no longer changes due to a meal or physical activity. At present, seven hospitals, including Professor Raccah’s Conception Center, are testing this device. Tests are conducted and if they prove conclusive the product, manufactured in France, will be marketed in 2017. Denis Raccahassures that for the moment the tests are satisfactory.
It is with these technical and technological advances that hope can be restored to diabetic or morbidly obese people. Nearly three million French people suffer from these pathologiesand fifty thousand are unaware of it.
It is clear that, as every year, these meetings allow nutrition and dietetic professionals to take stock of the progress of their professions and patients to be informed.
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