International Nutrition and Health Communication Programme Held in Istanbul

The second of the "International Nutrition and Health Communication Programme" organized by the Sabri Ülker Foundation, which develops projects with reference institutions at home and abroad to fight against information pollution and to communicate scientific information in the fields of health and nutrition for the future of public health, was held on November 16-18, 2018 in Istanbul.
The programme aims to bring together expert scientists and communicators to make them experience the stages of scientific knowledge reaching the public through interactive studies, and this year's theme was "Popular Diets: Health Effects and Effective Communication".
The communicators who participated in the first internationally certified nutrition and health communication program completed their training with a certificate issued by the Society of Nutrition and Food Science, the leading German nutrition and food science community.

Sabri Ülker Foundation has been developing crucial projects for the society to reach up-to-date, reliable and scientific information in the field of food, nutrition and healthy living, and in this framework, organized the second International Nutrition and Health Communication Programme on November 16-18 in Istanbul. The curriculum of the two-day training was created by Prof. Hans Konrad Biesalski, Head of the Nutrition Department at the University of Hohenheim and Member of the Sabri Ülker Foundation Scientific Committee. This year's title of the training, which is Turkey's first "Nutrition and Health Communication Programme", was "Popular Diets: Health Effects and Effective Communication"
 

Accreditation from Europe's largest nutrition society

Within the framework of the programme, nutrition and communication experts from Turkey and abroad conveyed essential information on topics to participants, such as the development of obesity and eating disorders in the society, health effects of today's popular diets, transmitting diets to the public in a scientific manner, and food hygiene. In addition to print media representatives, representatives from digital platforms also attended the programme. At the end of the training, participants were awarded internationally accredited certificates by the European Society of Nutrition and Food Science, Germany's leading nutrition and food science community.
 

Expert names in their fields met with communicators

The curriculum of the International Nutrition and Health Communication Programme was conveyed by Prof. Dr. Hans Konrad Biesalski, Head of the Nutritional Biochemistry Department at the University of Hohenheim; Prof. Dr. H. Tanju Besler, Vice-Chancellor of Eastern Mediterranean University; Prof. Dr. Temel Yılmaz, Chairman of the Turkish Diabetes Foundation; Raymond Gemen, Nutrition Manager at the European Food Information Council (EUFIC); Prof. Dr. İrfan Erol, Professor at the Eastern Mediterranean University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics; Prof. Dr. Beraat Özçelik, Dean of The Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University; Prof. Dr. Julian Stowell, Research Assistant at Oxford Brookes University; and Prof. Dr. Diana Banati, Director of the International Life Sciences Institute. The programme was completed with a media workshop moderated by Prof. Dr. Ali Atıf Bir and enriched with news reviews and communication principles.

Popular diets were discussed

In the International Nutrition and Health Communication Programme, popular nutritional approaches and controversial topics such as the Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, clean nutrition, intermittent fasting, low-carbohydrate-high-fat diet, and detox were discussed and scientific data on these topics were shared. The prominent information is as follows: