At the event, scheduled for 13 and 14 March, international experts will talk in particular about their effects in pregnancy on the development of infants and for the treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cognitive diseases such as multiple sclerosis
Rome, 11 March 2014 - They are polyunsaturated fatty acids present in fish, especially in species such as salmon and cod, in walnuts, flax and chia seeds, a plant native to Guatemala and Mexico, already a staple in the diet of ancient populations such as the Mayans and Aztecs. Nutrition experts have been interested in their properties since observations led them to observe that populations with a diet rich in fish, such as the Japanese and Scandinavians, have fewer cardiovascular problems.
Di Omega-3 we will speak atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma on 13 and 14 March (via Alvaro del Portillo 21, Trigoria). In its third edition, after Folic Acid (2011) and Vitamin D (2012), the Workshop stands as an international appointment of the Bio-Medico Campus on the most interesting topics related to nutrition.
"They are nutrients that almost have the characteristics of a drug – explains the Doctor Sara Emerenziani, nutrition expert at the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital. They are anti-inflammatory and vasodilator. As antiplatelet agents they prevent, for example, the formation of thrombi in the blood. They then act on the lipid profile, allowing to reduce cholesterol, or on the side effects caused by artificial nutrition on the liver".
Between basic research and clinical applications, al Workshop on Omega-3 we will analyze, in particular, theirs effects in pregnancy and in the cognitive development of the infant, in the treatment of cardiovascular pathologies, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and other chronic pathologies. When it comes to taking Omega-3 supplements, common sense is again important: “They can be useful, especially in the case of sick people - specifies Sara Emerenziani but in daily life they do not replace correct lifestyles and a balanced diet. A sedentary lifestyle, alcohol consumption and smoking addiction or even simply low consumption of certain foods such as fish cannot be rebalanced simply by taking Omega-3 based supplements".
And on theirs too therapeutic effects, delving into the subject, it turns out that scientists are still looking for an unequivocal answer. If a recent study of the Nutrition Foundation of Italy, published in 2014 in the scientific journal Atherosclerosis, speaks of a 65 percent reduction in the risk of heart attack recurrence in heart patients, another Italian study on 12 subjects, conducted at the 'Mario Negri' Pharmacological Institute in 2013 and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, questions the effectiveness of taking Omega-3 in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors (obesity and diabetes), in order to prevent complications.
The experts arriving in Rome this year will discuss this and more. Between them, Elizabeth A. Yetleyfrom the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Angelo Azzi, former White House adviser for federal policies on nutrition issues and professor at Tufts University in Boston, Manfred Eggersdorfer, of the Swiss DSM Nutritional Product, Isabella Denis, of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Maria Makrides, from the Australian University of Adelaide, Richard J. Deckelbaumof Columbia University in New York. Among the Italians, Carlo Agostoni, of the University of Milan, Laura De Gara,Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Luigi Mondello, of the University of Messina, e Dario Pitoccoof the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan.
The works of the Workshop start every morning at 9.30, ending at 17.00 on Thursday 13 March and at 13.00 on Friday 14 March
