Nutrition And Fitness

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The Fifth International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness was held in Athens, Greece, on June 9–12, 2004. This being the year when the Olympic games came back to the nation of their root, the keynote address given by Elizabeth Ferris, MD, a previous Olympic medalist and Vice President of theWorld Olympians Association, was entitled ‘Positive Health – ExploringRelevant Parameters’.The objectives and targets of the gathering were to • Review and evaluate the most recent logical data on nourishment and fitness, thinking about a hereditary gift, adjustment throughout the life cycle and the wholesome variables that add to wellness, specifically, the impact of the different dietary wellsprings of vitality on vitality expenditure, practice and performance.• Determine the relationship of sustenance and wellness to interminable infections, standard ticularly, the metabolic changes that happen with the sort and sum of physical movement for the anticipation and the board of cardiovascular dis-ease, psychological wellness, corpulence, osteoporosis, diabetes, and cancer.•