IFMED – INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF MEDITERRANEAN DIET:
THE NEW SCIENTIFIC AND INTERNATIONAL GUARANTOR

 has been presented at the 3^rd World Congress on Public Health Nutrition at Las Palmas on 12 November 2014

Lluis Serra Majem, President

Sandro Dernini, Secretary-General

Emmanuel Pauze, Executive Director

“There is a need for a new interdisciplinary and intercultural rethinking for the revitalization of the Mediterranean Diet – says Sandro Dernini, general secretary of IFMeD -. Therefore, IFMeD can be the ideal international place for promoting this change by acting to reconstruct a sustainable food cultural context for the Med Diet, more suitable to the current times and for all people”.

Milan, 27 October 2014 – The Mediterranean Diet has a new pole of multi-disciplinary knowledge and expertise, internationally recognized, it is IFMeD – International Foundation of Mediterranean Diet.

Within the complex contemporary reality of increased unsustainable and unhealthy dietary patterns in the world, the Foundation is born in response to the need to have a trans-national scientific guarantor, above local and national interests.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 April 2014

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Welcome message from the III World Congress President

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Congress will be focused on the topic:

Public Health Nutrition: The Core of the International Cooperation for Development; Arriving together

Following the work we started in Barcelona 2006, I am pleased to inform you that the WCPHN 2014 will be held in November 2014.

The opening session of the congress will take place on November 9, 2014 in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

The Canary Islands will be the location to set this link between the developing countries, and the first world countries, to help filling the nutritional gaps and planning a nutrition transition from deficiencies to a balanced diet.

This edition, the WCPHN programme starts with several “Pre-congress” activities to be carried out on 7-8 November 2014 in Banjul, and other areas of Gambia. With our joint efforts, we strive for better future for the Public Health Nutrition, working from local to global level. As an African saying goes;  “If you want to go fast, walk alone; if you want to go far, walk together”

I would like to welcome you to the Congress, and to ask you to take part in it. Suggestions for the programme will be welcome, as well as your latest research in this field.

With my best wishes,

Lluis Serra-Majem, MD, PhD

President III WORLD CONGRESS OF PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION