Nestlé International Nutrition Symposium

The 12th Nestlé International Nutrition Symposium (NINS) will bring together senior experts and key opinion leaders in nutrition, cognition and brain health, to discuss: • Supporting cognitive development through nutrition • The relationship between neurodegenerative disease, energy supply and nutrition • The possibility of nutrition delaying the onset of cognitive decline

The Nestlé Research Center hosted the 10th annual Nestlé International Nutrition Symposium on the topic of "Nutrition, Obesity and Society".  Over the past decades, obesity has become a global epidemic affecting industrialized and emerging countries alike. Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for developing non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and stroke. Diabetes, osteoarthritis and even certain cancers are linked to obesity, and in low income societies this is often in addition to the burden of infectious disease and undernutrition. The symposium brought together renowned scientists, key opinion leaders and Nestlé experts for two days at the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss the science and health economics linked to the obesity epidemic.