Symposium reinforces commitment to help reduce world obesity
Dated: 27 June 2008
BENEO-Orafti played host to leading international weight management experts and scientists at its highly successful European Scientific Symposium in Brussels in April this year.
The key themes covered included obesity and body weight management, low glycaemic carbohydrates, control of appetite and food intake, as well as the effects of oligofructose on weight management and health.
Although there is no panacea against obesity, successful interventions were discussed that included energy-restricted diets, trials that reduced the energy density of the diet (e.g. by cutting the fat content) and interventions that combined diet and physical activity.
Work from Professor Arne Astrup and his colleagues, from the Copenhagen University’s Department of Human Nutrition suggested that high protein foods and meals with a low glycaemic index (GI) were useful for weight management because they helped induce satiety.
Says Tim Van der Schraelen from BENEO-Orafti: “A good research base has now been established to quantify the impact of functional carbohydrates, in particular oligofructose-enriched inulin on satiety, appetite control and metabolic function.”
“We are committed to carrying further research in this area and will continue to offer platforms in the future so that the scientific community can discuss and demonstrate the various uses of these functional carbohydrates in healthy weight managing diets”.
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