September 26, 2014
9:00 – 10:45 | Session 1: Opening Session
Chairpersons: G. C. Di Renzo (Italy) – J. F. Bisson (France)
9:00 – 9:45 | Opening Remarks
ISCHOM and an international congress on Chocolate – G. C. Di Renzo (Italy)
The late baroque Castelli cup for chocolate – V. De Pompeis (Italy)
Opening Lectures:
Sin and pleasure: the history of chocolate in medicine – D. Lippi (Italy)
Does chocolate make you cognitively resilient? – G. M. Pasinetti (USA)
10:45 – 11:15 | Choco Break
11:15 – 13:00 | Session 2: Content of chocolate and cocoa of medical interest:
How much is the processing affecting the properties?
Chairpersons: W. Hurst (USA), E. Bertoli (Italy)
The supply chain of cocoa and the importance of fermentation – M. Della Vecchia (Italy)
Processing and polyphenol content of chocolate – P. Efraim (Brazil)
Methods for the analysis of polyphenols in food and their physiological action – W. Hurst (USA)
Programs on cohesion and productive integration of rural cooperatives of cocoa and chocolate in Ecuador – N. Costantini, F. Pinelli (Italy)
High polyphenol content cocoa – P. Blasi, B. Albertini, G. C. Di Renzo (Italy)
Effects of bioactive constituents in cocoa products on human health – B. Sarria (Spain)
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch / Poster View
14:00 – 16:30 | Session 3: Diet, Obesity and Chocolate
Chairpersons: C. Ferri (Italy), G. Maskarinec (USA)
Evidence-base for the good life in cardiac prevention – S. Dragan (Romania)
Obesity, CVD dose and diet – K. Davison (Australia)
Cocoa, glucose tolerance and insulin signaling – D. Grassi (Italy)
Cocoa, blood pressure and cardiovascular health – C. Ferri (Italy)
Effects of cocoa polyphenolic extract on weight management – J. F. Bisson (France)
Diabetes and chocolate: friend or foe? – D. Mellor (UK)
16:30 – 17:00 | Choco Break
17:00 – 18:30 | Session 4: Antioxidants Effects of Chocolate and Cocoa
Chairpersons: K. Davison (Australia) – A. Spadafranca (Italy)
Chocolate and cancer prevention? – Epidemiology, evidence and future directions – G. Maskarinec (USA)
Chocolate, antioxidants and pregnancy – G. C. Di Renzo, E. Brillo (Italy)
Maternal cocoa assumption and fetal heart rate – G. Buscicchio, M. Emanuelli (Italy)
Cocoa & nutrimetabolomic strategies in clinical nutrition to revealing new biomarkers – C. Andres-Lacueva (Spain)
18:30 | Happy Hour and Get Together Party
20:00 | Executive Board Meeting