Congress on food intolerances

More and more people are affected by food intolerance

03/18/2014

More and more people are suffering from food intolerance and, for example, respond to gluten, lactose or histamine with symptoms such as headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating or tiredness. Accordingly, the 31st Nutrition Congress of the Austrian Diaetologen dedicated to the subject „Gastro-entero-hepatological nutritional turbulence“, This year, from March 27 to 28, will be held in Vienna and designed by speakers such as Hanni Rützler, Kurt Widhalm and Herbert Tilg.

„Today, we are increasingly living in an intolerant society“
The selection of allergen-free products in the shops is growing, as more and more people suffer from food intolerance and tolerate, for example, lactose, fructose or histamine. However, from an expert's point of view, in parallel with the ever-increasing supply, consumer uncertainty is also growing, because by now almost everyone is affected by an incompatibility: „Today, we are increasingly living in an intolerant society. It seems that almost every human being develops incompatibilities with certain foods or ingredients, "says Andrea Hofbauer, the congress leader and first chairwoman of the Association of Diaetologists in Austria, which raises the question of whether, for example, gluten „a danger to all people“ or if gluten intolerance is just one „fad“ IN QUESTION.

Dietologists as „essential impulse generator“ in the field of nutrition policy
In this context, according to Hofbauer, the field of dietology would have to ask the question of how to deal with this development in the dietary treatment practice, but also in the counseling. For precisely because the suspected clinical pictures would often not be confirmed, in the case of a supposed incompatibility, a consistent omission of important foods such as milk or cereal could even do more harm than good, according to the Federal Minister of Health Alois Stöger (SPÖ). Accordingly, be one „Serious education and consultation [...] in addition to a reliable diagnosis, appropriate treatment and professional nutritional therapy particularly important.“ According to the politician, dieticians would play a key role in ensuring competent nutritional counseling and therapy, and for Stöger as a result „key drivers in the further development of Austrian nutrition policy“ act. (No)