Dietary Sugars, Obesity & Metabolic Disease Risk, World Obesity Federation Event – Berlin, Germany

Consumption of dietary sugars has increased in the population and emerged as a major dietary component that has been linked with development of obesity and associated metabolic outcomes. The issues surrounding dietary sugars have become of global importance and have numerous implications for the development of suitable local, national and global policies that might prove successful in combating obesity. These issues include sugar/soda taxes, warning signs on foods/beverages that are high in sugars and global trade policies.

The science behind the links between dietary sugars and obesity/metabolic outcomes is rapidly developing and it would be of great benefit to the scientific community to be reviewed and brought together at one venue. There are also numerous evolving controversies and discrepancies in this field of study that this conference would aim to resolve by bringing world experts together into an atmosphere of collegial sharing and consensus building.

This World Obesity Federation event in Berlin, Germany, will feature an interactive poster session and will appeal to a broad inter-disciplinary mix of basic, clinical, epidemiological, and population based researchers working in the area of dietary sugars and obesity/metabolic diseases. This includes researchers, clinicians, health professionals, policy and public health scientists in addition to representatives from government, policy institutes and industry.