PREVIOUS CONGRESSES

Plant Nutrients and Cardiovascular Health - an educational symposium designed specifically for nutrition, dietetic and food science students.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Alpro Foundation and the University of Nottingham, students from Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield were invited to attend a unique learning event at the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus on November 11th, 2009.

The presentations can be downloaded from this site.

 

 

 

 

 

Plant-based foods: Important role to play against obesity

Satellite symposium on May 6th, 2009 at the latest European Congress on Obesity (Amsterdam).

Natural and synthetic peptides in the prevention of obesity - Dr Paolo Magni (Milan, Italy)

Unsaturated fatty acids and obesity - Dr. Sander Kersten (Wageningen, The Netherlands)

 

Effect of soya-substituted diet in children and adolescents with familial and polygenic hypercholesterolaemia - Prof. Dr. Kurt Widhalm (Vienna, Austria)

Effect of soy food products on satiety, food intake and subjective sensations - Dr. Clare Lawton (Leeds, UK)

Plant-based foods and exercise: how to motivate people? - Prof. Dr. Greet Vansant (Leuven, Belgium) 

Download English report - Dutch report - French report

 

 

8th INTERNATIONAL SOY SYMPOSIUM (Tokyo, November 2008) 

 

 

 

 

 

7th INTERNATIONAL SOY SYMPOSIUM (Bangkok, March 2007)
 

 

 

 

 

Dietary approaches for atherosclerosis prevention: vegetable protein

Satellite symposium at the XIV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis (June 18-22, 2006) in Rome.

 

 

 

 

Alpro Foundation symposium on MENOPAUSE (Hamburg, 2005).
Alpro Foundation invited four international scientists in Hamburg (May 26, 2005) to present the latest news on how to relieve menopausal symptoms.

 

 

 

 

Can food proteins affect the course and mortality caused by cardiovascular diseases?
Alpro Foundation sponsored a symposium at the Austrian Academic Institute of Nutritional Medicine on April 15th, 2004 in Vienna.