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PULSUS brings in a new spin on conferences by presenting the latest scientific improvements in your field. Listen to motivating keynotes from thought leaders, or rub elbows with pioneers across the globe. London is all set for an amazing event as PULSUS proudly presents the “World Congress on Advanced Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods” Scheduled on July 15-16, 2019 at London, UK.

PULSUS cordially welcome researchers, academicians, students and business professionals in the field of nutraceuticals and functional foods from around the world to participate in the upcoming Nutraceuticals 2019. The meeting for this year will revolve around the theme “Emphasizing latest Innovations in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods” thus relaying the most cutting-edge findings in the field of nutraceuticals and functional foods research.

The two-day meeting is going to be an event to look forward to for its enlightening symposiums & workshops from established experts of the field, exceptional keynote sessions directed by the best in the business. It will also prove to be a brilliant open door for the representatives from Universities and Institutes to cooperate with the world class researchers and an outstanding opportunity for businesses keen at expanding their global market reach. Interested individuals can confirm their participation by registering for the conference along with their colleagues. Register soon and avail exciting early bird discounts.

Nutraceutical is defined as a food or parts of food that provide medical or health benefits to its basic nutritional value including the prevention and treatment of disease. A Nutraceutical is a standardized nutrient that does not exist as a regulatory category they are regulated as dietary supplements and food additives. Functional foods include such items as cereals, breads, beverages that are fortified with vitamins, some herbs, and Nutraceuticals. These can be useful in inhibition, supervision, treatment of chronic diseases. Functional foods are similar in appearance to conventional and modified foods. It is being consumed as normal diet that provides the body with the required amount of vitamins, fats, proteins, carbohydrates that have a potentially beneficial effect beyond basic nutrition. Functional foods are vital in disease prevention that containing probiotics, prebiotics, or plant stanols and sterols.

Target Audience:

Research Heads
Medical Colleges
Nutraceutical specialists
Industrial expertise
Directors and Professors
Post-doctoral and PhD students
Theoretical researchers
Functional Foods scientist
Research scholars
Graduate and Post graduate students
Food Experts
Business Entrepreneurs

Who should attend?

Nutraceuticals Professionals
Nutrition and Health Researchers
Nutrition and Dietitian
Functional Foods Professionals
Food technologist
Nutrition and Food scientist
Pharmaceutical researchers

Why to attend?

At a best conference, good innovative ideas are thrown about and new information is exchanged among scientific experts and this Conference may give a detailed Nutraceuticals study and current development in this field. Members around the world concentrated on learning about Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, it is a best scientific platform to get more knowledge on Nutraceuticals. The young researchers and the student participants will gain the prospect to grab the Best Poster Award by presenting their work in poster presentation and Young Researcher Forum.

Scientific Session

Session 01: Nutraceutical

Nutraceutical is defined as a food or any product derived from food that provide medical or health benefits to its basic nutritional value including the prevention and treatment of disease. A Nutraceutical is a standardized nutrient that does not exist as a regulatory category they are regulated as dietary supplements and food additives.

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Session 02: Nutrition and Health

Nutrition is required by organism and cells to stay alive it deals with diseases, condition and problems which can be prevented or reduced with healthy diet. Food provide the right amount of nutrients for good health, maintain tissue growth and regulate body processes. Proper nutrition will have great influence on personal health.

Related Conferences: International Conference on Nutraceuticals & Public Health, January 28-29, 2019 Osaka, Japan | International Congress on Nutrition & Health, March 07-09, 2019 Stockholm, Sweden | International Conference on Food Technology: Quality, Safety & Regulatory, December 03-04, 2018 Chicago, USA | Obesity, Diet Management & Nutrition Conference, March 18-19, 2019 New York, USA | International Conference on Clinical Nutrition, March 04-06, 2019 Barcelona, Spain | Annual Congress on Probiotics, Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals, March 25-26, 2019 Macau, Hong Kong.

Session 03: Dietary Supplements and Dietary Fibres

Dietary supplement is intended to supplement the diet that contains one or more dietary ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids etc, which is to be taken orally. Dietary fibre is found in edible plant foods, it is grouped as soluble and insoluble fibre based on its physical properties. A high-fibre diet helps in maintaining bowel health, lowers cholesterol levels, control blood sugar levels and aids in achieving healthy weight.

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Session 04: Medical Foods

Medical food which is formulated to be consumed or administered enterally under the supervision of a physician and which is intended for the specific dietary management of a disease or condition. It was developed for patients with malabsorption caused by Crohn's disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, ulcerative colitis, insomnia, inherited diseases of amino acids and organic acids.

Session 05: Functional Foods

Functional foods are similar in appearance to conventional and modified foods. It is being consumed as normal diet that provides the body with the required amount of vitamins, fats, proteins, carbohydrates that have a potentially beneficial effect beyond basic nutrition. Functional foods are vital in disease prevention that containing probiotics, prebiotics, or plant stanols and sterols.

Session 06: Pharmaceuticals Vs Nutraceuticals

Pharmaceuticals are human-made, or imitations of natural substances used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease. Food or parts of food that provide medical or health benefits, such as prevention and treatment of disease is called as Nutraceuticals. It is a product isolated, processed from natural sources and sold in the medicinal form including the powder, tablet, capsules, etc. Nutraceuticals can be from plant, animal and mineral source which is used to prevent disorders and generally referred as health products. Pharmaceuticals need a prescription while nutraceuticals do not require a prescription.

Session 07: Multivitamin Supplements

A multivitamin is intended to serve as a dietary supplement - with vitamins, dietary minerals, and other nutritional elements available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids can have health impacts Multivitamins in large quantities may risk of an acute overdose due to the toxicity of some components. Multivitamins are also used to treat vitamin deficiencies caused by illness, poor nutrition, digestive disorders, pregnancy etc.

Session 08: Bioactive Nutraceuticals

Bioactive Compounds are the naturally occurring chemical compounds derived from a plant, animal or marine source that exert the desired health benefit. Nutraceuticals are the standardized and characterized preparations or extracts containing bioactive compounds in regulation of stem cell function, skin penetration, tissue regeneration, and disease prevention.

Session 09: Nutricosmetics

Nutricosmetics can be defined as the intersection of cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals, these products are taken orally, either as pills or liquids for beauty purposes, anti-aging effect, reducing wrinkles by fighting free radicals generated by solar radiation. The major ingredients of nutricosmetics are soy isoflavone proteins, omega-3 fatty acids, beta-carotene probiotics, lycopene, vitamins (A, B6, E),flavonoids, sterol esters, lutein etc.

Session 10: Prebiotic and Probiotics

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria found in foods or supplements that contain live microorganisms intended to maintain or improve the "good" bacteria in the body. Prebiotics are substances come from types of carbs that humans can't digest which feed the friendly bacteria in the digestive system with the intention of improving the balance of these microorganisms. Eating balanced amounts of both pro- and prebiotics should improve your health.

Session 11: Nutraceuticals in Health Care

Nutraceuticals are medicinal foods reduce or eliminate the need for conventional medications that play a role in maintaining well-being, enhancing health, modulating immunity and help in combating health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, cholesterol etc. Thereby reducing the chances of any adverse effect.

Session 12: Nutraceuticals in Cancer Therapy

Nutraceuticals play an important role in a number of functional deficiencies and degenerative diseases which are helpful in reducing toxicity, associated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and lead to better life conditions by reducing cancer cachexia, thus people use dietary vegetables, medicinal herbs, and plant extracts such as soya bean, garlic, ginger, tea as well as propolis, honey to prevent or treat cancer.

Session 13: Nutraceuticals for Cardiovascular Health

Dietary factors are important contributors to cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes mellitus. Antioxidants appear very useful at coronary heart disease, they reduce artery plaque through fibrinolytic activity and reduce blood pressure. The application of nutraceuticals may have the potential to increase the effectiveness of therapy which are natural nutritional compounds.

Session 14: Nutraceuticals in Weight Management

Nutraceuticals are given in the form of pills provides medicinal and health benefits. These supplements are helpful for weight gain and weight loss with no physical effort. Antioxidant found in green tea have ability to increase thermogenesis which in turn uses up stored fat as energy. Capsaicin is a chemical found in spicy food can amp up your calorie burn and suppress your appetite. Caffeine found in coffee and caffeinated teas can help you burn fat by boosting your basal metabolic rate, or BMR.

Session 15: Restorative & Alternative Medicine

Alternative Medication, fringe medication, pseudo medicine or questionable medication is the use and the promotion of practices that are unproved, not possible to prove, or harmful in relevancy their result — within the attempt to achieve the healing effects of medication. The scientific agreement is that different therapies either do not, or cannot, work. In some cases, laws of nature are violated by their basic claims. In some the treatment is so much worse and the use is unethical. Different practices, products, and therapies vary from only ineffective to having known harmful and harmful effects.

Session 16: Recent Trends in Nutraceuticals Research

Recent developments in the field of Nutraceuticals have specific aims at improving benefits of functional foods, dietary supplements, Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. Many consumers look to nutraceuticals to provide those nutrients or benefits that cannot be provided by their diet. Which have seen widespread changes in consumer attitudes to dietary intake, driving rapid growth in the UK market for nutraceuticals.

Session 17: Veterinary Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals are becoming increasingly popular within the veterinary profession which are currently being used in the prevention and treatment of common diseases in animals including cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, periodontal disease, cognitive dysfunction and cancer with the intent of improving the health and well-being of animals.

Session 18: Marine Nutraceuticals

Marine Nutraceuticals are derived from marine life forms that continue nearly 80th of earths life forms many invertebrates like sponges, corals,spirulina,bryozoans, tunicates, ocean slugs beside many alternative marine life forms were used to derive thousands of secondary metabolites and bioactive compounds that possess antineoplastic, medication, antibiotic, antiviral, ant parasitic, ant fibrotic activities along with properties to modulate several physiological pathways by inhibiting or activating enzymes and transcription factors.

Session 19: Role of Functional Foods

Functional foods include such items as cereals, breads, beverages that are fortified with vitamins, some herbs, and Nutraceuticals. These can be useful in inhibition, supervision, treatment of chronic diseases. Functional foods are similar in appearance to conventional and modified foods. It is being consumed as normal diet that provides the body with the required amount of vitamins, fats, proteins, carbohydrates that have a potentially beneficial effect beyond basic nutrition. Functional foods are vital in disease prevention that containing probiotics, prebiotics, or plant stanols and sterols.

Session 20:Nutraceuticals in Pediatrics

Children get wiped out more frequently than generally grown-ups. For example, a Children will contract by six to eight colds a year. So the Nutraceuticals Proffer medications in the form of Pills, Suppositories., Topical prescriptions, Capsules, Tablet, Injections, Liquid for kids to fix assortment of Pediatric infection and condition. The safety and efficacy of some dietary intercessions to tweak hazard factors in Childhood are recorded by an increasing body of proof.

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Session 21:Nutraceutical in Gynaecology

Nutrition is a basic angle for any matured lady, however mothers who are 35 and over might be twice as liable to grow hypertension, a forerunner to preeclampsia." Preeclampsia is a typical condition that outcomes in a quick spike in blood pressure amid the last trimester of pregnancy, joined by swelling and protein in the urine. It very well may be dangerous to mother and child whenever left untreated. More youthful Women or teenagers are additionally searching for cautiously detailed items to help a solid pregnancy. Hormones act as messengers, designed to interact with specific target cells and organs and provoke a change or result for women. As women get age, hormone production changes and hormonal imbalance can occur several results. Unbalanced hormones can have a variety of side effects and symptoms. Nutraceuticals in gynaecology will provide the solution for the diseases and sideeffect.

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Session 22: Nutraceuticals in Diabetes mellitus

Due to lack of inactivity, obesity is rising nowdays. Usually Diabetes and Obesity are link with each other due to the lack of insulin in the body and unable to utilize carbohydrates. So the nutraceuticals from food products such as antioxidant, Omega 3 fatty acids, Lipoic acid.. etc act as a antidiabetic agent.

Session 22 : Nutraceuticals Market-Growth Trends

The current consumer trend is to be preventive rather than react to the health issues, there is a shift in the consumer preference from synthetic ingredients to natural and organic ingredients and foods. Consumers prefer the nutraceutical foods mainly constitutes functional foods and beverages and dietary supplements. Developing nutrients based on an individual’s genetics and lifestyle changes would help in developing customized functional foods and beverages, based on the genetic segment.

Market Analysis

Why London, UK?

Recent global market reports estimate the Nutraceutical industry to be worth just over $30bn in 2011. This has risen from $24bn in 2004. It is acknowledged as the fastest growing segment of the Nutraceutical industry. The UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain are the leading European markets followed by Japan. The combined global market share of the five European countries is 65% ($20bn). The annual global growth rate is 6.5% and in Europe it is 5.8%.

According to the report Strategies in Nutraceuticals, Functional Food and Drinks, UK consumers are increasingly aware of health issues and will turn to higher value products that provide health benefits and, as a result, the growth of functional food and drink products in the UK will greatly outstrip that of normal products. A large number of consumers look to nutraceuticals to provide those nutrients or benefits that cannot be provided by their diet, which have seen widespread changes in consumer attitudes to dietary intake, driving rapid growth in the UK market for nutraceuticals.

Scope and Importance

Nutraceuticals address a wider area and provide a pro-active measure, such as helping to lower cholesterol (i.e. Benecol) or containing ingredients that are thought to reduce the risk of cancer (e.g. insoluble fibre, betacarotene). Nutraceuticals scope is even widening into OTC medicines. There is clear export growth potential for nutraceutical sectors which should ensure further growth for UK companies.

The global nutraceuticals market size was valued at USD 272.35 billion in 2016. Increasing risk of diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and cholesterol is expected to boost product demand over the forecast period. High cost associated with healthcare treatments has resulted in rising consumer interest in nutraceuticals over the past few years.

Nutraceuticals provide essential nutrients as dietary supplements and functional foods and beverages. Global trends are leaning toward personalized nutrition, wherein nutraceuticals are expected to play a major role. This trend is expected to help individuals from different regions and demographics select products that suit their nutrition requirements. Nutraceuticals provide health and medicinal benefits and enhance basic nutritive value of food.