Round table:

Energy balance, physical activity and health

Moderator: 

• Update on the prevalence of obesity in Spain
• Prof. Javier Aranceta, PhD. Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) and Associate Professor at the University of Navarra

Debates:

• Global benefits of physical activity
• Prof. Lluìs Serra-Majem, PhD. Chairman of the Spanish Foundation for Nutritional Research (FIN), Chairman of the Spanish Nutrition and Food Sciences Academy (AEN) and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Las Palmas

• Physical inactivity in the pathogenesis of obesity
• Lourdes Carrillo, PhD.  Family and Community Medicine specialist. Coordinator of the Working Group on Nutrition of the semFYC.

• Exercise for the control of the obese patient
• José Antonio López Calvet, PhD. Department of Physical Education. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

• Energy balance and body composition
• Prof. Gregorio Varela-Moreiras, PhD. Chairman of the Spanish Nutrition Foundation (FEN) and Professor of Nutrition and Bromathology at CEU San Pablo University of Madrid

Date and Place:

 June 12^th 2014, Gran Canaria

Organizer:

Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC)