An exciting internet conference “Food – for Healthy People and a Health
Planet” is being held over the second week of September.

Participants are given a password which gives them access to 40 conference
papers.  They can then join in discussion on the papers and with each other
for the week 9 to 15 September 2001.

Full details are at: www.natsoc.org.au – follow the link in the sidebar
to “Conference”.

Here is a summary slanted toward the interests of EvFit members.

Papers and on-line discussion will be grouped under six sections:

1.  Biological background of nutrition.  [This section includes: The
biohistory of nutrition (check out the author, Stephen Boyden at Amazon.com
or do a search on his name in Google), Nutrition of indigenous peoples past
and present, GM foods]

2.  Nutrition, health and disease [Includes: Obesity and Diabetes; Food
sustainability and health through food variety, Dietary guidelines for
older people, People as omnivores, Phytochemicals, glyconutrients and
health (check this one out -–the convenor has a PhD in human hormone
research), Food safety]

3.  Food and animals [Includes: Food from animals – ecological and health
implications, Antibiotics and other additives in livestock feed –
implications for human health]

4.  Choices in food consumption  [Includes: Mother’s milk; Do current
recommendations on health eating need a rethink?  The food/exercise
balance; changing patterns of eating – good or bad]

5.  Food, population and resources  [Includes: Population, consumption and
environmental degradation (the author is an expert in complex systems),
Bioethics of the natural environment]

6.  Sustainable food production [Includes a paper and discussion on organic
farming]

I’ll certainly be there and I hope you can participate as well.  I have
checked with the organizers and they welcome participants from outside
Australia.  It will be interesting to read the conference papers, to see
the range of comments from participants around the globe and see if we
EvFitters can generate some positive responses.

Keith

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