Functional Food Center is pleased to announce its 23rd International Conference and Expo on Functional Foods “Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds in Health and Disease: Science and Practice.” The conference will be held at San Diego on April 24-25, 2018. The 23rd International Conference of Functional Food Center will bring together experts in medicine, biology, and the food industry to discuss the functional foods with bioactive compounds as dietary interventions for chronic diseases, as well as for health promotion.
Main Conference Topics/Sessions:
Main Topics/Sessions at the 23rd FFC International Conference will include:
- The Status of Functional Foods in Japan, USA, and Other Countries
- Health Claims: Nutraceutical, Functional, and Medical Food Regulations
- Functional Foods and Chronic Diseases
- Functional Foods and Obesity
- Functional Foods and Diabetes
- Neurological Diseases
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Functional Foods and Cancer
- Functional Foods and other Chronic Diseases
- The Effects of bioactive molecules on Biomarkers of Chronic Diseases
- The Effects of Nutrition and Functional Foods on Aging and Health
- Functional Foods, Bioactive Compounds, and Microbiome
- Safety of Bioactive Compounds and Functional Foods
- Special session: Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Bioactive compounds
- Special Session: MicroRNAs from foods
- Special Session: Food Bioactive Compounds, Biomarkers, and Functional Foods: Promising Concept for Chronic Disease and Healthy Aging
- Special Session: Coffee consumption benefits and adverse events. Session Chair: Gabriela Riscuta MD, CNS, Program Director, Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Special session: Dietary Nitrite and Nitrate. Session Chair: Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
- Special session: Sports Nutrition and Functional Foods. Session Chair: Debasis Bagchi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, United States
- Current Research and Development of New Functional Food Products