Knowledge of the human genome helps us customize our diet.

VIII Congress of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC).

- The Tomás Pascual Sanz promotes healthy habits to prevent future diseases.

Valencia has carried out the VIII Congress of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC). The goal of this conference was none other than the latest developments and changes in the field of food, nutrition and public health.

Under this framework, the Instituto Tomás Pascual Sanz organized and sponsored a panel discussion on "Nutrigenomics and other-omics sciences, ie in-depth study and knowledge of metabolism, gene-nutrient interactions and food, with the to improve nutrition and health, and provide a personalized nutrition.

Daniel Sacristán, investigator of the cardiovascular research unit at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid, stressed the importance of studying the expression of proteins in our body to help prevent disease. Sacristán says that having a greater knowledge of our proteins and studies in depth, it could change a clinical diagnosis and the study of these and other parameters can help solve health problems related to nutrition such as obesity or diabetes.

This in-depth study in medicine is called proteomics, and also can prevent diseases related to nutrition may also be a useful tool and complementary to other methods commonly used in evaluating the performance and physical condition of the athlete can provide information about the metabolic efficiency and nutritional status of the athlete.

Victoria Arija, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University Rovio i Virgili spoke on "New developments in the study of iron and its genetics. Arija said that the presence of mutations in the HFE gene can create a partial or total dysfunction of the protein that regulates iron metabolism. The professor added that diet may influence this type of pathology, and that the intake of foods rich in iron and alcohol increased the levels of iron overload in the body while decreasing the dairy.

On the other hand, Manuel Porter, professor of Fisilología of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Lérida head of the University of Lerida, spoke of the "Insulin and its triggers." Porter stressed the importance of diet in the prevention of Insulin. "Carrying a food high in fat and sugar, excess calories and physical inactivity may be risk factors for various diseases detonate. Porter also noted that a study of individual nutrients may help the development of insulin resistance.

The scientific sessions will be organized around lectures, round tables and symposia. Also conducted workshops and made themselves known relevant new publications in the field of nutrition, different from their face