Jan Willem van der Kamp

About him:

After his study in chemistry and R&D positions in Unilever Jan Willem van der Kamp joined in 1985 TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, as director of cereal research. As Senior Officer International Projects he was and is involved in a wide range of national and EU projects, including FP6-HEALTHGRAIN, HealthBread, as coordinator, and MyNewGut , where he focused on developing recommendations for European public health and dietary guidelines. He chaired the scientific committee of the recent 7th International Dietary Fibre Conference highlighting the area of dietary fibres, their impact on the gut microbiome and related health effects.  He served as International Director of AACCI, President of ICC, and is now chairing the ICC Academy. As board member of the Healthgrain Forum he co-authored the publication of the HGF definitions of Whole grain 2 and Whole-grain foods and is now chairing the International Working Group for coming to a global definition for whole grain as raw material.

About his talk:

"Whole-grain wheat contributes to liver health and resilience: results of the graandioos intervention study in overweight subjects"

Wholegrain wheat contributes to the maintenance of a healthy liver and to improved resilience. These new health benefits were demonstrated by measuring in a 12-wk intervention study (50 persons; 92 g whole vs. 92 refined wheat products) resilience and, with Magnetic Resonance Imaging, liver fats. Confirmation of these results may result in the first EFSA-approved wholegrain health claims.