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IMB Seminar Series: Putting the balance back in diet, Professor Stephen Simpson AC, 15 April 2016

**For more information about this seminar, please visit http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/balanced-die... **Topic: Putting the balance back in diet: the nutritional geometry of health and ageing **Speaker: Professor Stephen Simpson AC, Academic Director (CEO), Charles Perkins Centre; Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney; Executive Director, Obesity Australia **Talk overview: Macronutrients (protein, fats and carbohydrates) are fundamental dietary components, yet the question of what represents a balanced diet and how this maintains health and longevity remains unanswered. This talk will set out a new way to describe the multidimensional nature of nutritional requirements, the relative values of foods in relation to these requirements, the behavioural and physiological responses when feeding on diets of varying composition, and the health consequences of being restricted to particular diets. These models arose from the study of nutritional ecology and were developed initially using a wide variety of species in the laboratory and the field. Professor Simpson will show how they have been used to address problems in ageing, obesity and cardio-metabolic health.