26 March 2025
19.00 - 21.00
Program
This world class congress will gather international scientists and present the latest research on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
26 March 2025
27 March 2025
27 March 2025
08.30 – 09.00
Registration and coffee break
27 March 2025
09.00 - 09.30
Welcome – Authorities
27 March 2025
09.30 – 10.00
Plenary Opening Conference
No red in the Med?
Miguel Martínez-González - Medical epidemiologist & Professor of Public Health at the University of Navarra & CIBER obn, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
27 March 2025
10.00 – 11.30
Session 1: Lifestyle – related diseases – how to prevent the new epidemics
Overweight and obesity – how to prevent the global epidemic
Maria Puy Portillo - University of Basque Country
Type 2 diabetes – is sugar the new saturated fat?
Attilio Giacosa - University of Pavia
Lifestyle factors and cardiovascular diseases
Luc Djoussé - Harvard University, USA
Cancer - a lifestyle disease?
Carlo La Vecchia - Dept. of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan I
27 March 2025
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
27 March 2025
12.00 - 13.00
Session 2: Longevity – Are we all going to be centenarians?
Effects of anti-aging redox nutritional approach on health and lifespan
Giuseppe Poli - University of Turin
What is the best diet for longevity and good health?
Laura di Renzo - University of Tor Vergata
27 March 2025
13.00 - 14.30
Lunch and Poster Session
27 March 2025
14.30 – 15.30
Session 3: Gastronomy roundtable : Pleasure and health
Pleasurable eating - healthy for body and mind
Vito Mollica - Orchestrator of the restaurant venues at Palazzo Portinari Salviati, one of Florence’s oldest buildings now transformed into an elegant five-star hotel
Moderate wine consumption in a healthy lifestyle
Gabriele Gorelli MW - Italy’s first Master of Wine
Applying the scientific method to culinary techniques
Rosa Lamuela Raventos - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, School of Pharmacy and Food Science, INSA-University of Barcelona, Barcelona
27 March 2025
15.30 – 17.00
Session 4: What is the secret to healthy aging?
What role do exercise and diet play?
David Thivel - University of Clermont-Ferrand
Sleep – a neglected behavior?
Jean-Philippe Chaput - University of Ottawa
Superagers—have we found the opposite phenotype to Alzheimer's Disease?
Marta Garo-Pascual - Inselspital - Universitätsspital Bern
How mental well-being and happiness contributes to longevity
Michael Klein - Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
27 March 2025
17.00 – 17.30
Poster Awards
27 March 2025
19.30
Gala dinner, Casina Valadier
28 March 2025
28 March 2025
08.30 - 09.15
Welcome coffee
28 March 2025
09.15 - 10.00
Plenary conference
28 March 2025
10.00 – 11.30
Session 5: Moderate wine consumption in the Mediterranean Diet under debate – A global perspective on healthy eating
The “hidden” common “virtue” of the traditional Mediterranean diets
Rena Kosti - University of Thessaly
Mediterranean Diet - epidemiological evidence for being one of the best preventive diets
Simona Costanzo - Instituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed
Mediterranean diet, wine, lifestyles and biological aging
Licia Iacoviello - IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS) and LUM University Casamassima (BA), Italy
Polyphenols – the magic bullets in foods?
Rosa Lamuela Raventos - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, School of Pharmacy and Food Science, INSA-University of Barcelona, Barcelona
No red in the Med?
Miguel Martínez-González - Medical epidemiologist & Professor of Public Health at the University of Navarra & CIBER obn, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
28 March 2025
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee Break
28 March 2025
12.00 - 13.00
Session 6: Well-being and risk in context – Roundtable discussion
What is low risk?
Creina Stockley - University of Adelaide
Moderation and risk: How to encourage healthy choices
Laura Catena - Harvard and Stanford trained biologist and physician
Communication of public health messages
Richard Harding - Long-time Scientist in the UK civil service, first in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and later Head of Consumer Choice, Food Standards and Special Projects Division, Food Standards Agency, UK
Is there a role for pleasure?
Michael Klein - Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
28 March 2025
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
28 March 2025
14.00 – 16.00
Session 7: Inconsistencies in scientific evidence – Exploring research methods and what to believe
Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice and Policy: A Standardized Competency Training Program
Bradley Johnston - Texas A&M University
Trustworthy Guidelines
Gordon Guyatt - McMaster University
Observational Research – Valid For Guidelines?
Dena Zeraatkar - Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University
Understanding Randomized Controlled Trials: How They Shape Medical Evidence
Hania Szajewska - The Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Paediatrics
Evidence-Based Nutrition - How Can It Be Improved: Insights From PREDIMED Trials
Emilio Ros - Institut d'Investigació August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona
28 March 2025
16.00 – 16.30
Session 8: Moderate wine consumption and cancer risk
Do wine drinkers have an increased cancer risk? Epidemiological perspective and clinical aspects
Ramon Estruch - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona
28 March 2025
16.30 – 17.00