Press Information: Nutrition, source of life

Junio 2013 • Agosto 2014

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comunicacion@parqueciencias.com

Consorcio Parque de las Ciencias

Organisers

Nutrition, source of life Consejerías de Educación Agricultura, Pesca y Medio Ambiente Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo

Collaborators

Collaborating institutions

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Departamento de Comunicación Parque de las Ciencias Cristina González Lourdes López Avd. de la Ciencia s/n 18006. Granada Tel.: 958 131 900 Fax: 958 133 582 comunicacion@parqueciencias.com www.parqueciencias.com

Chimeric plant designed by the Ibero-American Nutrition Foundation (FINUT)

“Nutrition, source of life” is an exhibition on “healthy food, nutrition and lifestyles within a sustainable environment” that aims to teach the general public key concepts relating to food, nutrition and healthy living.

By following the healthy habits described, everyone can enjoy better health and a better quality of life.

The UN has set out a series of key global challenges for the future, and these give a clear indication of the importance of nutrition today: promoting sustainable foods, ensuring optimum maternal nutrition, eradicating child malnutrition, preventing non-transmissible chronic illnesses, and finding out how nutrients and bioactive compounds in food react with the human microbiome and affect health, etc.

Visitors to the exhibition will learn about the concepts of nutrition, food and healthy lifestyles, and will go home knowing how to do their bit to look after the environment. The exhibition is centred around three vital dual concepts for health: food and nutrition/optimum growth; rest and physical activity/mental and physical balance; and healthy habits and the environment/quality of life. These three concepts form the three sides of a tetrahedral pyramid, the FINUT Pyramid. The base of that pyramid is health. The main aim of the exhibition is to make food an important part of our lives, highlighting the habits that are good for our health. To improve our lifestyle in a sustainable way, we need to find solutions that are both responsible and balanced, analysing our own habits and those of the people around us.

This exhibition is being run as part of the 20th International Congress of Nutrition that is being held in Granada in September 2013.

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Large audiovisual This immersive experience tells the story of nutrition from prehistoric times to the present day, and goes on to look at the future of nutrition: nutrigenomics. It also examines the role of food in large civilisations, its religious value and innovations introduced at times of great change such as the colonisation of America or the Industrial Revolution.

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Food market This market has ten stalls displaying the different food groups and telling us how each one helps to improve our health and quality of life. There is one that looks at the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, eight for the eight food groups–water, cereals, fruit and vegetables, olive oil, milk and milk products, pulses and dried fruit and nuts, fish and shellfish, and meat and

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eggs–and a final stall with all the foods we should only eat occasionally and in small quantities.

Computer programs, models and interactive, audiovisual and 3D exhibits will help visitors to understand the nutritional importance of each food, as well as its history and the recommended portions for a healthy life.

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Pyramid Plaza When you leave the market you will come to Pyramid Plaza.

Here you will find a model of the healthy living pyramid designed by FINUT. This innovative pyramid not only includes information about nutrition, but also about the importance of rest, physical activity and looking after the environment.

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Healthy lifestyles This part of the exhibition tells you how physical activity and rest can benefit your health. It focuses on the importance of a healthy environment and sustainable farming methods in order to improve people’s quality of life.

A healthy life depends on 3 pairs of factors: rest and physical activity; hygiene and a healthy lifestyle; and sustainability and the environment. A healthy life can never include drugs, smoking or alcohol.

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How I eat In this section, visitors can use a computer program to assess their eating habits. Visitors tell the program the foods they normally eat, and the computer tells them if their habits are healthy and if their usual diet is good or not. The program can also send the results to visitors’ own email addresses so that they can have all the information at their fingertips to put the recommendations into practice and get healthy.

Sitting at the table: foods around the world The nutritional journey concludes with a meal from around the world. Visitors can sit around the table and choose a three-course meal made up of products eaten in eleven different countries around the world.

This interactive exhibit will tell us what would happen, nutritionally speaking, if we decided to eat the first course in India, the second in Japan and the third in Africa, for example. Or if we’re really feeling adventurous, what would happen if we just chose puddings?

The exhibit also shows the nutritional tables of all the dishes selected.

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Workshops

Finding out more

As well as the exhibition itself, there are also workshops like the Bakery where visitors can learn how to make bread. The Nutrition workshop shows how important some living things are for transforming food (digestive processes and preservation methods), and the Senses workshop offers visitors the chance to discover the aroma, flavour and texture of foods using their senses of taste and smell.

The “Finding out more� section provides further information in the form of books, leaflets, audiovisual media and online resources, so anyone who wants to find out more about nutrition and healthy living can do so.

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Fact sheet Ground floor Production

Ibero-American Nutrition Foundation (FINUT) and Parque de las Ciencias

Details

Vía Láctea Exhibition Hall: 1,000 m2 Bilingual: Spanish and English Contemporary exhibits Suitable for all ages Wheelchair accessible

Exhibits

• Immersive space • More than twenty interactive exhibits • Audiovisual exhibits • Interactive computer programs: “How I eat” and “Sitting at the table” • Industrial heritage exhibits • Copy of the ‘Codex Granatensis’ • Technologies • Large-format back-lit exhibits • Educational workshops • Three-dimensional healthy living pyramid

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Large audiovisual

2 A journey through history 3 The four faces of health

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4 Food market

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5 Pyramid Plaza

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Healthy lifestyles

8 Never, nothing 9 Sitting at the table

Upper floor 10 Bakery

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Exhibition dates

June 2013 - August 2014

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Educational workshop

12 Senses workshop

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13 Audiovisual projection

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Don’t leave without finding out that...

• There may be thousands of ways of eating, but there’s only one type of nutrition.

• We sleep so that we can be awake.

• Olive oil is liquid gold for health.

• Eating meat helped our brains to evolve and grow larger.

• Just 2.5% of the planet’s water is suitable for drinking.

• 90% of Europeans tolerate lactose but 70% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant.

• Good nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and a sustainable environment guarantee health and quality of life.

• And much more...

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