The International Science Festival Gothenburg: What is a "healthy diet"?

Lecture

Ideas from an Italian nutritionist ended up in Scandinavia to study the Mediterranean diet.

What is a "healthy diet"? The health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are well known. However, many different kinds of diets have also been proposed: LCHF, low-fat, even blood type diets! How to disentangle the intricate forest of healty diets? Can we really control what will make us healthy?

Speaker: Gianluca Tognon, ScD, EpiLife, Institute of Medicin, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg.

The International Science Festival Gothenburg is the largest festival of knowledge in Sweden and one of the leading popular science events in Europe. It is a meeting place where scientists are given the opportunity to present their research in an easily digestible form to schoolchildren and the general public. Each year the festival attracts around 70,000 visits, with a programme of almost 350 unique lectures, workshops, debates and activities spread across 30 or so locations in Gothenburg. The aim is to encourage visitors to choose further education and to generate a positive attitude towards science and research.