Description
This meeting provides a unique multidisciplinary opportunity to focus on the relationship between the human circadian system, physiological processes and nutrition as well as the impact of their integrative roles in the development of metabolic disorders.
Understanding these interactions is particularly important as evidence suggests that sleep irregularity and shift work contributes to the development of obesity and related metabolic disorders as a result of an imbalance of the timing of food intake and energy expenditure with circadian rhythms.
Strategies and dietary guidelines for coping with health and performance problems associated with sleep deprivation and shift work will be addressed.
You will hear presentations from UK and international experts in neuroscience, physiology, sleep medicine, nutrition, cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology, occupational and public health. Both morning and afternoon sessions will be followed by interactive Panel discussion with delegates.
topics covered
Circadian rhythms and the impacts of disruption on health
The impact of mealtimes on circadian rhythms
How sleep and circadian rhythm can affect weight management
How energy intake can affect circadian rhythms
The chemical mechanisms of sleep disorders
The cardiometabolic consequences of sleep disruption
This joint meeting between the Food & Health Forum and the Sleep Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine is also in association with the Occupational Medicine Section and The Physiological Society.
agenda
9.00 am
Registration, tea and coffee
9.30 am
Rhythms of life
Professor Robert Pickard, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology, University of Cardiff
9.55 am
Question and answer session
10.00 am
Circadian clocks and metabolism: Integration of dietary and circadian control
Dr Jonathan D Johnston, Reader in Chronobiology and Integrative Physiology, University of Surrey
10.25 am
Question and answer session
10.30 am
Tea and coffee break
10.50 am
Food choices, meal timing and glycemic response
Dr Michelle Gibbs, Dietitian, Expert Nutrition Works
11.15 am
Question and answer session
11.20 am
Sleep duration, mealtimes and work performance: Metabolic syndrome, obesity and weight management
Professor Marta Garaulet, Professor of Physiology and Nutrition, University of Murcia, Spain
12.00 pm
Question and answer session
12.05 pm
Panel discussion
12.35 pm
Lunch
1.35 pm
Energy intake: Meal size and frequency and fasting
Professor Alexandra Johnstone, Personal Chair, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
2.10 pm
Question and answer session
2.15 pm
Leptin, ghrelin and sleep disorders
Dr Ari Manuel, Consultant in Sleep Medicine, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2.35 pm
Question and answer session
2.40 pm
Sleep disruption, shift work and health consequences
Professor Francesco Cappuccio, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Warwick
3.20 pm
Question and answer session
3.25 pm
Tea and coffee break
3.45 pm
Chrononutrition: Building the evidence for more personalised dietary guidelines
Dr Suzana Almoosawi, Research Fellow, Northumbria University
4.05 pm
Question and answer session
4.10 pm
Sleep and obesity: Are we getting fatter?
Professor Peter Kopelman, Principal, St George’s, University of London.
4.30 pm
Question and answer session
4.35 pm
Panel discussion
5.00 pm
Closing remarks
5.05 pm
Close of meeting
Completion of online evaluations