IMDEA Food | Nutrition and health: the same side of the coin

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IMDEA Alimentación is once again committed to filling the different spaces that make up the Institute's historic headquarters on the Cantoblanco campus with workshops, experiments, visits, talks and games. What the activities have in common is that they are aimed at showing all the faces of Nutrition and how they are connected to Health, in the most fun and didactic way. The aim is to reveal the keys to the work being done every day in research aimed at improving well-being in the face of ageing, and in the prevention and treatment of cancer, obesity, immune diseases and cardiometabolic health. And how will we do this? We want participants to become the best research assistants for a day. That's why we will test their technique in a small laboratory, we have prepared competitions for the best healthy menu, but we will also get to know more and better the smallest part that forms all living beings: the cell, and within it the DNA, which is the basis of much of the research work in which IMDEA Alimentación is a pioneer. We will use colours and balloons to explain it and everyone will have to make up a cell with ingredients we have in the kitchen. There will be traditional and interactive games and you will be able to see how food is produced with virtual reality glasses. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)