Messages from the FANS President 2019-2023
Dear FANS Adhering Bodies and All Nutritionists in Asia,
It is a great honor for me to serve as President of Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS), whose members are dedicated to improve nutritional status for all through the nutrition scientific development and its application through food, dietary and nutrients supplemental products innovations, nutrition education and communication innovations, nutrition technology development, policy-program advocacies, and consultancies in each countries.
FANS was established by representatives of delegates countries at the second Asian Congress of Nutrition in Manila – The Philippines in 1973. Now the number of FANS members or adhering bodies are 20 nutrition societies from 20 Asian countries, which are also the adhering bodies of International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS), as a global organization of nutritionists.
One of FANS objective is to encourage exchange of information and experiences in nutrition research, action programmes and trainings through Asian Congress of Nutrition, which held every four years. Up till now, Asian Congress of Nutrition (ACN) was organized 13 times. The current ACN, which is the 13th ACN was organized by The Food and Nutrition Society of Indonesia held on 4th -7th August 2019 in Bali – Indonesia, when I was started my presidency of FANS. Then the next ACN is 14th ACN will be held in 2023 in Hangzhou – China.
Since it was born, FANS has brought together the brightest minds in nutrition science and related professions from academia, government, and industry to solve the nutrition problems and challenges. I believe that science, invention, innovation and their applications are essential to ensuring good nutrition and health status. I hope that every nutritionist could play a role in his ecology, country or region in nutrition science, invention and innovation development as well as their applications for having safe and nutritious foods and diets, and nutrition services for better health and well-being. I also hope that the senior nutritionists also share their experiences, encourage and facilitate nutrition students and young nutritionists to advance their nutrition sciences and their applications for better health, sustained well being and longevity.
Professor Hardinsyah MS PhD
President, Food and Nutrition Society of Indonesia
President, Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies
| Messages from Past Presidents |
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| FANS President 2015-2019, Prof. Dr. Teruo Miyazawa |
| As the president, I am very glad to work for the next four years with you to encourage scientific stimulation of food and nutritional sciences in Asia. Developing health trends, environmental concerns, and economic climate must be taken into note more and more from now on. For the 12th ACN held in Yokohama on14-18 May 2015, I would like to extend my cordial thanks to all the participants and corporate bodies who supported us both physically and intellectually. The 12th ACN was the biggest congress ever on food and nutritional sciences in Asia with 4162 participants from 51 countries/regions. As realized at our General Assembly in Yokohama, we will have to resolve several unsettled matters, such as amendment of our Statutes to make them up to date, publication of FANS official journal, invitation of new FANS members and FANS observers, and so on. As one of the adhering bodies, FANS may make more intimate collaboration with scientific activities of IUNS. With much pleasure, we will meet next at our General Assembly on ICN 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also meet all of you at the 13th ACN 2019 in Bali, Indonesia. |
| Prof. Dr. Teruo Miyazawa President, FANS |
| FANS President 2011-2015, Ms Pek Yee Chow MSc RD |
| Dear Friends and Colleagues On behalf of Singapore Nutrition and Dietetics Association (SNDA), we would like to wish everyone a great start for the year and best wishes for the years ahead of us. SNDA would like to thank you for the continuous support to FANS and the ACN. Hopefully with the improved technology, we could further improve our communications across Asia and continue to promote the nutritional well-being of Asian people. |
| Ms Pek Yee Chow MSc RD President, FANS |
| FANS President 2007-2011, Dr. Po-Chao Huang |
| As the president I am very glad to see the establishment of its own website. For this, the FANS secretariat, led by Dr. Ching-jang Huang, should be congratulated. In the past, communication between FANS member countries was achieved mainly by holding FANS meetings during the ACN and ICN or by publishing FANS news letter, once every four years or at most every two years. Now, FANS will be able to send relevant informations or deliver news of mutual interests to member countries once or twice a year. I hope every member country of FANS will also use this website to communicate more often than before for better understanding of each other. |
| Dr. Po-Chao Huang President, FANS |
| FANS President 2003-2007, Dr. C. Gopalan |
| Greetings to the organizers and delegates of the 10th Asian Congress of Nutrition, which I am sure, will be a grand success. The Asian Congress of Nutrition, which was started in Hyderabad, India, has continued to flourish and grow in strength. It is indeed heartening that the small seedling planted in Hyderabad in 1971 has now blossomed into a sturdy tree. The Asian Congress of Nutrition was set up to provide a Forum for Asian nutrition scientists and for fostering their solidarity; and to provide them an opportunity for exchange of ideas with respect to promotion of nutritional well-being of Asian people. Right from the very start we had kept our doors open for participation of outstanding non-Asian nutrition scientists. This policy continues; the planning and organization of each congress will, of course, be in Asian hands. Today, nutrition scientists of Asia face a ‘double burden’ – with poverty-related nutritional problems in children, at one end of the age spectrum, and, nutrition-related chronic degenerative diseases at the other end. These are formidable challenges. The challenges, which Asian nutrition scientists will have to face in future, could be even more formidable. Current reports on global warming hold grim threats of coastal catastrophies and marine crises; of diminishing food grain production; of glacial meltdown resulting in flooding, subsequently followed by drying of rivers and increasing susceptibility to mosquito borne diseases and a significant loss of biodiversity. These threats are not all ‘distant’; some of them could even materialize in the course of the century. Though Asia’s contribution to global warming is insignificant as compared to that of North America or Europe, Asian countries are likely to bear the brunt of the deleterious effects of global warming. Nutrition scientists of Asia and the Asian Congress of Nutrition will therefore have to play even a more significant role in future. May I wish the Congress all success ! |
| Dr. C. Gopalan President, FANS and Founder-President, Asian Nutrition Congress Series |