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Dairy Council

Dairy Council Conference 2018

Nutrition & Health – What’s New?

The Dairy Council hosted a conference for nutrition and health professionals on 27th April at W5. The conference focused on new developments in nutrition science and practice, including those in relation to dairy foods, and was chaired by Professor Sean Strain from Ulster University.

Presentations:

Dr Emma Feeney, University College Dublin
The dairy matrix: is food more than the sum of its nutrients? 

Professor Moira Dean, Queen’s University Belfast
Cooking and food skills: what impact do they have on achieving a healthy diet?

Professor Ian Givens, University of Reading
Putting nutrition at the heart of sustainable diets

Dr Alison Yeates, Ulster University
An update on iodine in the UK diet: the role of milk 

Professor Wendy Kohrt, University of Colorado, Denver
Exercise, hormones and disease prevention 

Dr Megan Rossi, King’s College London
The low FODMAP diet for IBS: panacea or just another fad?
Links to FODMAP research:

Meta–analysis

Mechanisms beyond gut function control I

Mechanisms beyond gut function control II

To download the abstracts of the presentations please click here

Pictured L to R: Dr Alison Yeates, Prof Ian Givens, Dr Emma Feeney, Prof Wendy Kohrt, Dr Carole Lowis (Dairy Council), Dr Megan Rossi, Prof Moira Dean, Prof Sean Strain