School of nutrition Grande Covián of the Danone Institute Celebrates 10 years.

has trained more than 600 professionals in food, nutrition and health since 2003.

Santander, July 2012.- the school of Nutrition Institute Danone – Francisco Grande Covián is probably the most important course in food, nutrition and health of our country by the importance of the topics covered and quality and rigor of the participating teachers, who are often members of the Scientific Committee of the Danone Institute.

Held since 2003 within the framework of the Santander UIMP summer courses and each year presents the latest scientific developments in their field. It is headed by the President of the Danone Institute, Professor and scholar of medicine Manuel Serrano Ríos and has trained more than 600 professionals of the health and nutrition, both from the public and the private.

In this edition have attended the inauguration, others by the President of the Danone Institute, the rector of the UIMP Salvador Ordoñez, who emphasized the importance and strength of the initiative, because every year is one of the courses with higher attendance and better valuation, the CEO of AESAN, (Spanish food safety agency) Angela Lopez de Sa, which highlighted the work of Danone in disseminating healthy lifestyle habits and cited recent prizes NAOS strategy (granted by AESAN) the Danone sports schools and Professor Manuel Serrano Ríos for his contribution to the objective that citizens have a healthy diet and regularly practice activity Physics and Javier Robles, President of Danone, who defined health through food such as the raison d ’ être of Danone ”.

Professor Serrano rivers declared opened the course X, ” it is a very important moment to stop the Danone Institute ” and this year will address topics such as the intestinal microbiota and its relationship to health and disease, the importance of healthy life habits and adequate food from infancy to maturity and the diseases associated with obesitysuch as obesity or metabolic syndrome.

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