13.5 CME Credits (AMA/PRA Category 1 credit)

The conference will integrate recent results in  nutrition and metabolism and the consequences of controlled carbohydrate diets.  It will be of interest to dietician/nutritionists and health care professionals seeking the latest scientific information.  At the same time,  researchers in basic biochemistry will be interested in advances in metabolic control in a nutritional context.

Review of popular low carbohydrate (Atkins-type) diets for obesity • Body composition and hormonal responses to a carbohydrate-restricted diet • Summary of clinical trials for obesity • Thermodynamics of weight loss diets • Role of visceral abdominal fat in Metabolic syndrome • Controlled carbohydrates in the treatment of diabetes • Metabolic dyslipidemia in insulin resistant states • Glyceroneogenesis and TAG metabolism • Carbohydrate-induced hypertriglyceridemia  • Regulation of branched-chain amino acid catabolism • Diet induced thermogenesis • Role of leucine in weight loss diets and glucose homeostasis •