10 Oct 2012 - Human nutrition through the 'seven ages' - Royal Society of Medicine, London

Follow varying nutritional needs, stage by stage through the lifecycle: preconception to infancy, childhood and puberty, performance and adulthood into later life. Note the basic differences between demands of body and brain. Look for ways of generating lifecycle health.

Objective is to raise the questions:

1. How, at each stage of life, do the prime nutrients or deficits affect, brain, body, and childbearing?

2. Can a more Homo-specific food-chain curtail the modern nutrition-related pandemics?

3. To what extent are epigenetic effects transgenerational?

4. How can each age-group learn the means of lifecycle health?

5. What environmental and ecological factors affect physical, mental and social health? What global provision is needed?

Audience: For healthcare practitioners, consultants and scientists; stakeholders in food, agriculture and medicines; academics and students in nutrition, health and fertility.

Programme:

9.30am - Registration, tea and coffee

10.00am - Welcome and introduction - Note evaluation sheets
Dr David Smallbone, New York Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Homoeopathy, Fellow of the College of Healing

Chair: Dr Elizabeth Foot, VP Personalised medicine, London Genetics International

10.10am - Preconception care: Nutritional and health status of both parents
Dr Marilyn Glenville, Naturalhealthpractice.com

10.40am - Foetal life: Death starts in the womb
Professor Michael A Crawford, FRCPath Imperial, Founder-Director Inst Brain Chem and Hum Nutrition

11.10am - Refreshments

11.30am - Infancy: Maternal nutrition, weaning and establishing individual nutrition
Professor Gary Frost, Chair in Nutrition and Diabetics, Imperial College, London

Chair: Dr David Smallbone

12.00pm - Childhood: Maintaining good nutrition for mental and behavioural development
Dr Alex Richardson, Oxford, Food and Behaviour Research

12.30pm - Adolescence: Preparing for adulthood - good nutritional practice
Dr Bernard Gesch FRSA, Oxford Senior Scientist, Dept Physiology, Anatomy, Genetics

1.00pm - Lifecycle health: Co-ordinating insights for healthy generations
Morning speakers' discussion panel

1.20pm - Lunch

Chair: Mr James Collins, Director, Performance Nutrition Ltd, Lead Nutritionist, Arsenal Football Club, British Judo

2.20pm - Performance: Sports nutrition - the science to make your life a great one
Mr Matt Lovell, Nutrition Consultant to the English Rugby Team

2.50pm - Educating children as progenitors of long-life health
Mr Simon H House, Chair, McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health

3.20pm - Converging insights: In sustaining health and performance
Afternoon speakers' discussion panel

3.40 pm - Conclusion of conference: Evaluation forms
Dr David Smallbone

3.50 pm - Close