​ILSI North America Annual Meeting

• ILSI North America Scientific Session: Mind and Body - Understanding the Connection between Neurobiology and Food Behavior
  This session will provide current perspectives on the neuroscience of food intake and will feature four dynamic speakers, Stephen Woods (University of Cincinnati), Paul Breslin (Monell Chemical Senses Center and Rutgers), Nicole Avena (University of Florida and Princeton University), and Fernando Gomez-Pinilla (UCLA), who will offer an integrative  overview covering individual, social and environmental influences on eating behavior, including the three levels of regulation (homeostasis, reward and cognition) and their neural basis.  The talks will also address specific areas of emerging interest and controversy in the field, emphasizing how a brain/cognition/behavior perspective can provide better understanding of three hot topics: 1) food choice, 2) food addiction and 3) food and brain health.   The session is chaired by Miguel Alonso-Alonso (Harvard Medical School) and Juan Navia (McNeil Nutritionals) and will include what is sure to be a lively panel session at the end of the program. 
• Neural systems involved in food intake: an integrative overview
  ​Stephen Woods, PhD, University of Cincinnati
• Senory/neuroscience approach to food choices and eating patterns
  Paul Breslin, PhD, Monell Chemical Senses Center and Rutgers University
• Food 'addiction': translational studies of the fine line between food reward and addiction
  ​Nicole Avena, PhD, University of Florida and Princeton University 
• Food and dietary patterns and brain health
  Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, PhD, UCLA
• Panel discussion
   
  The 2013 ILSI North America Scientific Program is chaired by Johanna Lampe (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and Juan Navia (McNeil Nutritionals).
  

• ILSI North America Scientific Session: Food: Balancing Risk and Benefit - Challenges and Limitations for Risk Management
  This session, chaired by Katy Tucker (Northeastern University) and Mark Moorman (Kellogg Company), will provide a better understanding of the current process of risk-benefit assessment, address challenges and limitations of current approaches, and identify researchable questions for use to develop a holistic framework.  The cross cutting session addresses both nutrients and food safety, and features four excellent speakers:   Richard Williams (George Mason University Mercatus Center) provides an overview on risk-benefit analysis of foods; Bob Buchanan (University of Maryland) addresses risk-benefit assessment for chemical contaminants; Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University) discusses a risk benefit approach to assess nutrient intake and ponders the need for a new approach  to setting DRIs; and Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon University) presents a talk on communicating risks and benefits – about food – or anything else.  A panel session is featured at the end of this thought-provoking session, at which time research gaps and challenges will be addressed. 
• Risk-benefit analysis of foods - chemicals and nutrients
  Richard Williams, PhD, George Mason University Mercatus Center
• Risk-benefit assessment for chemical contaminants
  Bob Buchanan, PhD, University of Maryland
• Risk benefit assessment for nutrients
  Alicia Carriquiry, PhD, Iowa State University
• Communicating risks and benefits, about food -- or anything else
  Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
• Panel discussion
  
  The 2013 ILSI North America Scientific Program is chaired by Johanna Lampe (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and Juan Navia (McNeil Nutritionals).
  
  
• Carbohydrates Forum

• ILSI North America Scientific Session: Move It! - Looking at the Health Consequences of Physical Inactivity
  Jim Hill (University of Colorado Health Science Center) and Brent Flickinger (ADM) chair this innovative session examining the health consequences of physical inactivity.  Some of the best scientists in the field are included on the program: Steven Blair (University of South Carolina) discusses what he calls the “biggest public health problem of the 21st century: not enough physical activity.”  Marc Hamilton (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) addresses the effects of physical inactivity on healthy aging and chronic disease and discusses the new concept that the effects of too much sitting are not the same as too little exercise.   John Blundell (University of Leeds) discusses the impact of physical inactivity on appetite regulation and energy balance.  The final speaker, Jim Levine (Mayo Clinic), discusses non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), the energy expenditure of all physical activities other than volitional sporting-like exercise.  Dr. Levine will cover the environmental and biological factors that account for variability of NEAT, and how best to reverse low NEAT and obesity to improve activity, health and longevity.  This session will conclude with a panel session and discussion on research needs in this fascinating field. 
• The Biggest Public Health Problem of the 21st Century: Not Enough Physical Activity
  Steven N.  Blair, PED, University of South Carolina
• Physical inactivity: effects on healthy aging, chronic disease
  Marc Hamilton, PhD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
• Physical inactivity & Compensation
  John Blundell, PhD, University of Leeds
• Non-exercise activity thermogenesis
  Jim Levine, PhD, Mayo Clinic
• Panel discussion
  

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