RACMEM
Recent Advances & Controversies in the Measurement of Energy Metabolism
The RACMEM-2017 keynote lectures and proceedings of the body composition satellite meeting have been published in a special issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition: https://www.nature.com/ejcn/volumes/72/issues/5
RACMEM2017 Satellite II
Novel concepts in the relationships between
Body composition, Energy balance Regulation & Cardiometabolic Health
Organised by: Steven Heymsfield & Abdul Dulloo
Scientific Program
Friday 20th October
14:00 – 14:30 New imaging approaches for quantifying body shape and metabolism
Steven Heymsfield
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, USA
14:30 – 15:00 Advances in assessing body composition during pregnancy
Leanne Redman
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, USA
15:00 – 15:30 Body composition and metabolic health: updating ‘the capacity-load’ model
Jonathan Wells
Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
15:30 – 16:00 The companionship of lean mass and fat mass revisited: novel concepts in body composition
autoregulation
Abdul Dulloo
Department of Medicine/Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee/tea break
16:30 – 17:00 Critics on Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) on Obesity
Manfred Muller
Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, University of Kiel, Germany
17:00 – 17:30 When and to what extent does fat mass and fat-free mass drive energy intake?
James Stubbs
School of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, UK
17:30 – 18:00 Body composition and cardiometabolic health: the need for novel concepts
Anja Bosy-Westphal
Institute of Nutritional Medicine, University of Hohenheim, Germany