Healthy Diet for Healthy Life

Nutritional science is developing very rapidly, making more and more methods of diet offered to the public. So, how effective these methods and how they affect the health aspects. For this reason Nutritional Science Student Association held a National Seminar Undip, located in Building Prof. Soedarto Tembalang (8 / 03) with the theme: "Healthy Diet for Healthy Life". National Seminar on this as a form of participation of Nutrition Science Program Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University to commemorate the national nutrition that falls on January 25.

Speakers at the seminar, lecturer Dra.Diana Rosmawati Psychology, psychologists, Setyaningrum Rahmawati, S. M. Kes ST from UMS, Professor of Nutrition Prof.dr.HM. Sulchan, MSc Nutr DA, SpGK. Third speaker was moderated by dr. Niken Puruhita MMedSc, SpGK.

In his presentation, Setyaningrum expose some popular dieting methods, namely: food combining, blood type diet, and vegetarian. "The most prominent of food combining is not advisable to eat rice, side dishes, vegetables, and fruit at once in an hour of eating. While the blood type diet may give clues on the type of disease susceptibility of certain body, so it can find a suitable diet to prevent disease. While vegetarianism is not the concept of losing weight, but more in terms of health "he explained.

Meanwhile, Prof. Sulchan describes the influence of individual genetic variation in response to food ingredients. "Diet is individualized, he said. Although humans are genetically have up to 99.9% of all humans still leaves 0.1% which is the distinguishing differences between individuals. In other words, what works for one may not be suitable for others. "Diet can not be mass, but personally," added Prof. Sulchan.

The seminar was quite successful, because the targeted number of participants was only 350 people who attended as many as 683 people. Visible when the sight of people exiting participant question and answer session, marked by many participants who ask questions to each speaker.

In the end, the seminar aimed to move people more careful in choosing an effective method ynag diet. The next expectation is, the community can respond and apply the diet to achieve and maintain desired weight with a true and correct.


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