Mission
The
Health and Nutrition Division promotes and facilitates communication and
cooperation among industry, academia, and government professionals whose
interests in lipid biochemistry and physiology relate to all aspects of
dietary fats and health.
The Division encompasses the technical areas of
dietary fats and general health. Areas include: the relationship of dietary
fats to promotion of wellness and prevention of disease; omega-3 and omega-6
essential fatty acids and eicosanoids, fat-soluble vitamins, and other
fat-soluble constituents; fat substitutes; and advancement of nutrition
policy. The Division advances the field by organizing symposia and technical
sessions at the AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo, by the development of
international conferences, and by contributing articles and books to AOCS
publications.
Newsletters
Members of the
Health & Nutrition Division receive 2 newsletters per year which
contain information relevant to the Health & Nutrition audience.
Contents include industry and member news, meeting and symposium profiles,
upcoming events, awards, and new books. To view a past issue, click on
any link below. To get the newsletters as they are released, join the division!
February 2006 April 2006 February 2007 February 2008
Archived newsletters.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Help the Division achieve its mission.
A contribution to the Division provides assistance in technical program development, speaker support, and award administration. Donations are greatly appreciated and recognized in the Division newsletter, website, and at the Annual Meeting. Sponsor an AOCS Annual Meeting event or session (E-mail link)
Of Interest
This section provides links to items of interest to the Division membership. Visit the other AOCS program areas for books, meetings, and official methods related to fields this Division serves.
The 10th Asian Congress of Nutrition. September 9-13, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan
The conference was sponsored by the Nutrition Society of Taiwan and the Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies. The meeting covered such topics as general nutrition, applied nutrition, glycemic index, metabolic syndrome, vitamin supplementation, the actions of PUFA and the current status of GMO development and detection. An impressive array of plenary presentations covered perspectives in Human Nutrition (Walter Willet, Harvard University, USA), Nutritional Science in Practice (Mark Wahlqvist, Monash University, Australia), Tackling Disease Burden (Ricado Uauy, Chile), Nutrigenomics (Hisanori Kato, Japan), and the New Growth Standard for the 21st Century (Nita Bhandari, Society for Applied Studies, India).
Full proceedings of the 10th Congress of Nutrition were published in the January 2008 issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition and are now available for viewing here.
Awards
Mark Bieber Memorial Symposium
- "Dietary Fat, Obesity, and Health--from Theory
to Practice"
The Health & Nutrition Division of the AOCS planned a
symposium in memory of Dr. Mark Bieber during the 93rd AOCS
Annual Meeting & Expo. This symposium was conducted in
collaboration with the International Food Information Council
(IFIC) and the International Life Sciences Institute of North
America (ILSI-NA). This symposium was also designed to co-ordinate
with ISSFAL (International Society for the Study of Fatty
Acids and Lipids) 5th Congress which also took place in Montréal,
May 7-11, 2002. The symposium was designed to reflect Mark's
commitment to the importance of science as the basis of nutrition
education, policy, and practice, and his resolution that science
be translated into practical applications for the consumer.
Recent developments in the understanding of the interaction
of nutrition, genetics, and the environment in these disorders
makes these topics very timely.
- Mark
Bieber Memorial Symposium Abstracts
- A Mark Bieber Memorial Session will take place at the 99th AOCS Annual Meeting and Expo.
Health and Nutrition Division Brochure (pdf)
