Hot Topic Conference 2015: Dietary Sugars, Obesity and Metabolic Disease Risk
Consumption of dietary sugars have increased in the population and have emerged as a major dietary component that has been linked with development of obesity and associated metabolic outcomes.
The issues surrounding dietary sugars have become of global importance and have numerous implications for the development of suitable local, national and global policies that might prove successful in combating obesity. These issues include sugar/soda taxes, warning signs on foods/beverages that are high in sugars and global trade policies. The science behind the links between dietary sugars and obesity/metabolic outcomes is rapidly developing and it would be of great benefit to the scientific community to be reviewed and brought together at one venue.
This event appealed to a broad inter-disciplinary mix of basic, clinical, epidemiological and population based researchers working in the area of dietary sugars and obesity/metabolic diseases. This included researchers, clinicians, health professionals, policy and public health scientists in addition to representatives from government, policy institutes and industry.
The event took place from 29-30th June 2015 in Berlin, Germany.
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This Hot Topic Conference was supported by the Deutsche Adipositas Gesellschaft (DAG). World Obesity would like to thank all of our sponsors and exhibitors who kindly supported the event.
For enquiries please contact hottopics@worldobesity.org
