Symposium: Understanding & influencing consumer food behaviors for health

18-20 July

Holiday Inn Atrium Hotel

Singapore

www.ilsi.org

ilsisea@singnet.com.sg

As of late, relentless attention has been placed on the transformation of global food-consumption patterns.

Urbanization, rising incomes, and changing lifestyles have all been cited to explain the diminished the consumption of traditional meals based on cereals, vegetables, and root crops.

But now organizers of the ‘Symposium on Understanding & Influencing Consumer Food Behaviors for Health’ are giving manufacturers the specifics on the what, when, why, where and how often of eating behaviors in order to influence them for good health.

The two-and-a-half day symposium will dissect the determinants of consumer food choice, examining how individual behavior can be modified to promote health and prevent disease. The event will present the latest findings and methods in consumer research.

Topics include:

• Modern marketing meets the food industry: How practitioners develop optimal

food products and get consumers to try them;

• Consumer food behavior: Food choices and health problems in Asia;

• Qualitative study designs and tools to measure consumer food behavior;

Organized by the non-profit International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Southeast Asia Region and CSIRO Human Nutrition, the symposium is also a collaboration with Asian Food Information Centre; Health Promotion Board, Singapore; Family & Consumer Sciences; Natural Sciences and Science Education Academic Group; National Institute of Education, Singapore.