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In June 2008, the PHAA brought together leading academics in the area of food and nutrition to discuss New Nutrition Science and its application to Australian food policy.
The program included key presentations by Professor Mark Wahlqvist, Associate Professor Julie Woods and Associate Professor Heather Yeatman followed by discussion among all participants.
The meeting was the starting point in the development of A Future for Food the advocacy paper PHAA launched in February 2009.
New Nutrition Science
The New Nutrition Science project is a join initiative of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences and the World Health Policy Forum. The task was initiated in 2001 at the time of the 17th International Congress on Nutrition in Vienna, and has been progressed at many international meetings since that time.
At a workshop held in April 2005 at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, agreement was sought from key academics internationally on the principles, definition and dimensions of the project. The workshop proceedings were published in Public Health Nutrition as a special supplement to coincide with the 18th International Congress of Nutrition held in September 2005 in Durban, South Africa, where the New Nutrition Science project was officially launched.
The aim of the project is to re-define nutrition in a more holistic way while preserving all that is basic and vital in 'classic' nutrition science, to meet the challenges and the opportunities of the world in which we now live, in this new century. The definition includes four dimensions, namely, biological, social, environmental and economic.
Attendees at PHAA Nutrition Round Table
Caroline Arthur, Department of Health and Ageing
Andrea Begley, Curtin University
Nerida Bellis, Dietitians Association of Australia
Cate Burns, Deakin University
Ruth Colagiuri, University of Sydney
Trish Guy, Sanitarium Health Food Company
Aloysa Hourigan, Nutrition Australia
Roger Hughes, Griffith University
Simone Lowson, Public Health Nutritionist
Sarah McNaughton, Deakin University
Michael Moore, Public Health Association of Australia
Christina Pollard, Curtin University
Sue Radd, Nutrition and Wellbeing Clinic
Malcolm Riley, Dairy Australia
Jennifer Savenake, Dietitians Association of Australia
Mark L Wahlqvist, National Health Research Institutes
Melanie Walker, Public Health Association of Australia
Julie Woods, Monash University
Heather Yeatman, University of Wollongong
1 Public Health Nutrition, September 2005, Vol 8, No. 6(A)
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