El Aragon Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), organized with the collaboration of Ibercaja Foundation this "Cycle of keynote lectures» with the aim of promoting the cardiovascular health of the Aragonese.

The cycle consists of five keynote lectures scheduled for the months of June, September, October, November and December, and covers different themes: sleep breathing disorders, dialogue about our habits, nutrition in early childhood, healthy aging, and finally our genes, all of them especially interesting subjects in the care of our cardiovascular health.PROGRAMME

• “Virgin olive oil, central axis of the Mediterranean diet.”

Gives the Dr. Jesús de la Osada García, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Zaragoza. Researcher at the Center for Biomedical Research in Obesity Network (CIBEROBN).

Virgin olive oil is the oily juice of the fruit of the olive tree. Despite its use as a culinary fat in the Mediterranean basin, only It has only been recently that its biological qualities have been tested to enhance health.. This has sparked enormous interest in its production of both new plant varieties and new procedures to enrich it in certain components.

• “Bad company: the consumption of ultra-processed foods and its effect on the health of Spaniards.”

Gives the Dr. Pilar Guallar Castillón, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a researcher at the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies (IMDEA).

The consumption of ultra-processed foods (one in which the fresh food from which it comes is not recognized) is increasing in the diet of the Spanish. However, it is bad company when you go to the supermarket. The consumption of these foods in the Spanish population has been associated with higher mortality, worse heart and kidney health, greater abdominal obesity and worse lipid profile.

• Colloquium that moderate: 

Dr. José A. Casasnovas Languages. Professor of Cardiology at the University of Zaragoza. Researcher at the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón). Researcher at the Network Biomedical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV).

Dr. Fernando Civeira Murillo. Professor of Medicine at the University of Zaragoza. He is a researcher at the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón) and the Network Biomedical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV). Head of the Atherosclerosis Clinical and Research Unit of the Miguel Servet University Hospital.

*Is essential requirement to be registered in the activity to be able to attend.

Location:
Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta. Saragossa
San Ignacio de Loyola, 16. Zaragoza (ZARAGOZA)