belgiannutritionsociety

Third Annual BNS Congress - Behaviour and nutrition, new insights for better solutions

Programme outline:

Session 1: The psychology of eating behaviour: a reward-based approach - Keynote: Prof. A. Jansen (Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands): “Psychological drivers of eating behaviour ” download

• associations between psychological stress, eating behaviour and dietary pattern in children (N. Michels, UGent) download
• automatic processing of facial expressions in excessive and restrictive eating (R. Cserjesi,  VUB)  download
• How is reward sensitivity related to body weight in children? (S. Verbeken, Ugent) download

Session 2:  Measuring consumer perception and behaviour - Keynote: dr. K Hendricks (Spiral-ULg, Belgium) "Reflections on the notion of the consumer" download

• The relevance of the AUDIT as instrument to assess drinking profiles (J. Van Damme, Ugent) download

Session 3: Interventions for dietary behaviour - Keynote: Prof. W. Verbeke (UGent, Belgium): “Public acceptance of government interventions for dietary behaviour, results from the Eatwell project”

• The effect of point-of-purchase nutrition information in university canteens on the meal choice and nutrient intake (C. Hoefkens, Ugent) download
• Do childhood obesity prevention interventions work in low-and middle income countries (R. Verstraeten, UGent)

Session 4:  Changing physical activity behaviour- Keynote: Prof A. Oenema (Maastricht University, Netherlands): "Changing physical activity behaviour" download

• Long term-effectiveness and mediators of a need-supportive physical activity coaching among Flemish sedentary employees (S. Martien, KULeuven) download
• Motivational interventions combined with implementation intentions to promote physical activity among sedentary workers (C. Eeckhout, UCL)

The programme can be found here

The third annual BNS Congress took take place at the Royal Library of Belgium (http://www.kbr.be/) Brussels on April 20, 2012. The congress is free for BNS members (35€ for full members and 15€ for student members). Apply for membership here .