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The director of the Chair in Cardiovascular Risk Jose Abellan, presented the Meeting on Food and Cardiovascular Risk
The Catholic University of Murcia was held this afternoon the Company Group Meeting Murciana GEVA-HT AND RCV-UCAM, a multidisciplinary journey which was attended by doctors and nutritionists have debated studies evidence that exercise benefits different nutritional components on the cardiovascular health.
The director of the Department of Cardiovascular Risk UCAM Jose Abellan, who presented the conference with GEVA group coordinator, Juan Antonio Division, said, "We have moved away from the Mediterranean diet and our food is more calorie and atherogenic This has together with physical inactivity and smoking acquisition led to an increase in our metabolic problems that lead to obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia and hypertension. "
Dr. Abellan has also pointed out that this situation must be corrected at an early age "from school age by encouraging the promotion of exercise and good eating habits acquisition," he qualified.
For his part, the Director of Pharmacy degree in the university, and department secretary Human Nutrition and Food Technology, Pilar Zafrilla, has focused his speech on the consumption of Omega 3 and its beneficial effect.
They have also participated in the meeting Dr. Organic Chemistry and Commercial Director and Marketing Probelte Biotechnology, Vicente Martí Bartual, who has lectured on value creation through R & D, and associate professor at the Chair in RCV UCAM and family physician, Dr. Mariano Leal Hernandez, who gave the conference 'Anti-oxidation and cardiovascular risk from the perspective of a clinical'.
BACCHUS
During the meeting, attendees were able to meet the BACCHUS project that is immersed UCAM in collaboration with the European Commission, and with which you are working on the development of tools that facilitate the assessment of claims on cardiovascular health (regulations, catalogs, characterization of bioactive, evidence of health benefits, etc..).
Has lectured on this subject Fidel Todra, from the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (CSIC) in Valencia, who gave the conference "Designing a meat derivative with bioactive peptides'.
In this regard, José Abellan said that "we are investigating through this European project action that certain bioactive peptides present in cured meats such as ham, have on reducing blood pressure, which is a novel approach in future guidance on feeding hypertensive patients. "
At the meeting have also collaborated Probelte Laboratories and Grupo Ferrer, whose facility was made a tour.
Source: UCAM
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