Toni Massanés: “medicine and food have a common origin”.

-The Conference kitchen and medicine, stories parallel ”, headed by the director of the ALÍCIA Foundation, starred in the Act of the Academy

Barcelona, 2011-October the history of the kitchen has always been linked to medicine and its progress ”, said Toni Massanés Gastronome, director of the Alicia Foundationhas been in charge of inaugurating the year 2011-2012 of the Academy of medical sciences and health in Catalonia and Balearic Islands. At a Conference that dealt with the parallels between medicine and cuisine, Massanés pointed out that from prehistoric food and medicine have been always linked, they have a common origin ”.

According to the director of the Alicia Foundation, gourmet taste, there is a very important part where involving the senses, but is also influenced by cultural influence. For this reason carried out a workshop of the sense of senses ” that has served to reflect on the pleasure, perception and good food in the kitchen, as well as to demonstrate the importance of re-educate our senses.

Therefore Massanés pointed out that perception is conditioned by the sensations response ” and that it is necessary to work on the first to develop them. For example, explained that smell can hardly distinguish smells more than three at once. On the other hand, the taste is one of the least developed senses, in the same way as touch greatly influences at the time of choosing the foods we love ”. Massanés has set the example of the transformation of the textures of the chef Ferrán Adrià, linked to the creation of the Alicia Foundation.
In addition, the director of the Alicia Foundation spoke of the synesthesia or meetings of sensations from different sensory domains to achieve a comprehensive perception of food. Finally, Massanés emphasised the influence of good food to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The Act has been in public the appointment of members of merit of the Academy, which this year are: DRA. Wilhelmina Fita Rodríguez, Dr. Jordi Gago Rius, Dr. Jaume Mas Marfany, Mr. Gaietà couple Gabarró, Dr. Joan Pinyol Sabater, DRA. Margarita Puig Riera.

The Act has been chaired by Dr. Àlvar Net, President of l ’ Academy, DRA. Cristina Iniesta, l Salut delegate ’ Ajuntament of Barcelona, Dr. constant Director General, regulatory planning and Sanitaris resources of the Department of health i l ’ Ilm. Mr. Joan Puigdollers, Alderman of the District of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi of Barcelona.

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Its purpose is to promote the study and the cultivation of the Sciences of health in all aspects: human, technical, social and civic, both in its care teaching and research side

It is a lively scientific community, the collective effort that adapts to the needs and scientific circumstances at the time, working in collaboration with other medical, biological and pharmaceutical, domestic and foreign companies, with a constant concern of progress.

It is the most important medical Corporation of our country, by number of partners, more than 23,000. It consists of 80 scientific societies, bringing together professionals of the health sciences. The course 2010-2011 the volume of scientific activities jointly developed exceeds 1,700 acts and professionals who have attended are around 40,000 people.

It is present in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia and Andorra, through its 22 subsidiaries and their special characteristics, fruit of the momentum of civil society, can be considered that it is an institution unique in the world.