from 7.00 am until 8.00 am
Yoga's Lesson
* with Margaret Gunn King (Iyengar yoga teacher)
Open meeting
from 10.00 am until 1.00 pm
VEGETARIAN HEALTH**
Coordinator:Riccardo Trespidi
(Medical surgeon, head of the AVI's Scientific Medical Committee and of the Freedom for Animals movement)
Speakers:
Growth and Vegetarism
* Lodovico Benso (professor in Auxology at the University of Studies in Turin, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Science)
New vegetarian alimentary guidelines
* Luciana Baroni (Medical surgeon, specialised in neurology, geriatrics)
Cardio-vascular and cancer related pathologies
* Ottavio Bosello (Director of the Institute for Nutrition and professor in geriatrics and gerontology at the Faculty of Medicine, Verona)
From the study of the Indios, fruit as a healthy food source, to cure illness and reinforce the body's immune system
* George Guimarães (Dietician, Director of NutiVeg Consulting, Responsible for the San Paolo section of the Brasilian Vegetarian Society)
Diana 1 and Diana 2: the results of studies conducted on alimentary intervention, carried out at the National Tumor Institute and the presentation of the new project Diana 3
* Michela De Petris (Medical surgeon, specialised in alimentary science)
Diabetes in infants and vegetarian alimentation
* Leonardo Pinelli (Professor of Preventive and Social Paediatrics at the University of Verona and Director of the Diabetics and Paediatric Nutrition section of the ASL 20, Verona)
The vegetarian child: questions, criticism and the relative answers provided by the academic world on vegetarian nutrition in infants
* Luciano Proietti (Medical surgeon, paediatrician, dietician)
Chronic effects of the vegetarian diet on the body's metabolism , cardio-vascular related risks and bone density: an anticipation of the results of a study currently being conducted at the Superior Institute of Health in Rome
* Filomena Rinaldi (Human nutritional science)
The results of the most recent studies conducted on the use of oleaginous seeds and dried fruits to prevent degenerative diseases
* Gene Spiller (Ph.D., Director of the Health Research and Studies Centre in Los Altos)
** The event is currently under review by the Ministry of Health's ECM section to attain sponsorship and define formative credit.
Reserved "Round table" event
from 2.00 pm until 6.00 pm
Strategies to implement vegetarianism in the field of preventive medicine **
Coordinator: Ottavio Bosello
(Director of the Institute for Nutrition and professor in geriatrics and gerontology at the Faculty of Medicine, Verona)
This event is reserved exclusively for medics, dieticians and journalists giving them a chance to confront ideas and to discuss and develop strategies for the implementation of the plant-based diet in the field of preventive medicine.
** The event is currently under review by the Ministry of Health's ECM section to attain sponsorship and define formative credit.
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 3.00 pm until 4.00 pm
Tsunami : Emergency operation
* Paul Turner (President of Food for life)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 3.00 pm until 4.00 pm
Vegetarianism: our health and fitness
* Allemakujah Yahweh Nyasamoahene (Leader of the Nazarite Foundation, vegetarianism activist in Ghana)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 4.15 pm until 5.15 pm
Ten reasons to say NO to leather
* Hiren Kara (Director of the educational centre for animal rights: Bombay Beauty Without Cruelty)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 4.15 pm until 5.15 pm
The Animals' Quixote
* Luis Vallejo (Founder and former Secretary of the Canarian Vegetarian Association)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 4.15 pm until 5.15 pm
Living Foods For Health, Beauty and Youth!
* Brenda Cobb (Founder of the Living Food Institure, author of 5 books, for example:" Living food lifestyle" and "101 Raw and Living Food Recipes")
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 4.15 pm until 5.15 pm
The anthtropological and scientific proof of man's vegetarian origin
* Dr.Khosrow Taheri (Former Professor of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Nutrition at UCLA, Professor of Alternative Medicine at John Bastyer University)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 4.15 pm until 5.15 pm
Cooking demonstration: african vegetarian dinner
* Veronica Osei (The Nazarite Foundation's member, vegetarian cooking teacher)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 5.30 pm until 6.30 pm
The Origin and Consequences of Animal Exploitation
* Francisco Martin (Founder of ALA - Spain's first animal rights organisation and of AVE - the Spanish Vegan Society)
Session reserved for congress participants only
from 5.30 pm until 6.30 pm
Non violence as rooth of vegetarianism
* Massimo Andellini (general secretariat of vegetarian and animal rights forum)
