Julie Lovegrove to present public lecture - Dietary dilemmas

Monday, 18 March 2013

Professor Julie Lovegrove will present the last lecture in the current Public Lecture Series - Dietary dilemmas: Is there an optimum diet to prevent heart disease?

Professor Lovegrove from the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences and Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) will discuss the question of whether changing our diet would really reduce the risk of heart disease.

Cardiovascular disease is a major killer in the Western world and despite population-based dietary requirements scientists are divided over what is the optimum diet to reduce the risk of heart disease. This lecture will explore the current evidence for the impact of dietary change on our heart health and will beg the question as to whether a personalised diet based on our genetic makeup would be more beneficial.

Cardiovascular disease is a frequent presence in the news, with recent research now indicating that a Mediterranean diet is the best for a healthy heart. Professor Lovegrove, who has recently taken part in Channel 4's ‘Food Hospital' herself, will seek to question whether one particular diet, such as Mediterranean, is really the correct solution for everyone.

The public lecture will take place on Wednesday 20 March at 8pm in the Palmer Building on the University's Whiteknights campus. The lecture is free to attend and no ticket is required.

If you're unable to make it on the day, the team will be tweeting live from the lecture - just follow @UniofReading on Twitter and use the hashtag #UoRLectures to make comments or ask questions. You can also get a flavour for previous lectures on Storify, including Dr Christina Hellmich's lecture ‘Who is al-Qaeda?' - http://storify.com/UniofReading.

For more information visit www.reading.ac.uk/publiclectureseries or contact the Events team on 0118 378 4313 or email events@reading.ac.uk.