Thursday, 4th December 49th Nutrition Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Join us for an optional breakfast session proudly hosted by the Olive Wellness Institute.
Dr Hannah Mayr will present “The Mediterranean diet, olive oil and health: Evolution of evidence in the last five years,” exploring the latest research and practical insights in this evolving field.

You must be pre-registered to attend this session.

• Does diet and bone health predict injury in masters distance runners? - Erin A Colebatch
• Contemporary approaches to fuelling for sport - Louise Burke
•  Using CGM to understand fuelling requirements of athletes  - Greg Cox

• The Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework - Warwick Ragg
• Strategies to improve sustainabilty of chicken meat, egg and pork production - Eugeni Roura
• Food Security and Nutrition in the Pacific - Sarah Burkhart

• Dietary assessment and advice in the age of Artificial Intelligence - Margaret Allman-Farinelli
• Causal inference in nutritional epidemiology: Challenges and future directions - Yohannes Adama Melaku
• An nutrition extension of the CONSORT 2025 statement for reporting nutrition trials : CONSORT-Nut. - Karen Murphy

Meet our Meet our members and Registered Nutritionists who are sharing evidence-based nutrition with the wider community. Authors will be on the NSA stand during the following times:

• Dr Emma Beckett, author of You Are More Than What You Eat , on Wednesday from 1.15 to 1.45pm

• Dr Sue Radd, author of Food as Medicine: Cooking for Your Best Health and Food as Medicine: Cooking to Prevent and Treat Diabetes, on Thursday from 10.30 to 11.00am

• Dr Sarah Gray author of It’s Not You, It’s Perimenopause , on Thursday from 12.45 to 1.15pm

This session celebrates members who are translating nutrition science into accessible and inspiring books for the public. Hear their stories, discover their motivation for writing.

• Nutrition knowledge of recreational runners: a systematic review - Nathan Cook
• Diet quality is sub-optimal in masters distance runners - Alison M Hill
• Exploring nutrition knowledge gaps within Australian university student athletes. - Amy Janiczak
• The Effect of Carbohydrate Beverage and Energy Bar Ingestion on Cycling Performance and Physiological Responses in Healthy Athletes - John O'Reilly

• Food waste donation within Australian hospital foodservices: A qualitative exploration into dietitians’ perspectives - Joshua JB Bowles
• Nutritional life cycle assessment (nLCA) of shifting to pulses from animal sourced foods: an Australian case study of hummus vs ham sandwich - Adeline R Lanham
• Understanding the barriers to plant-based dietary change: The role of meat-centric meal perception among adults in Australia and Denmark - Gie Liem
• Australian plant-based meat and dairy alternatives: an audit of fortification and extent of processing - Laura Marchese
• Validation of a digital photography method for determining plate waste in an acute care hospital setting - Huize Ni

• A national analysis of current dietary protein intake, source and quality in older australian adults - Rikke Sand RSA Andersen
• The association between dietary protein source and quality and muscle health in older adults - Laura E Marchese
• Perceptions of healthcare professionals and patients on the appropriate translation of person-centred care into virtual care delivery for middle-aged and older adults: a mixed methods systematic review - Jess Bai
• Effect of anti-inflammatory diet on mental health outcomes in an aging population: A preventive target trial emulation - Belayneh Miteku

• Impact of human milk oligosaccharide supplementation on learning and memory ability of piglets in 8-arm radial maze - Dilki Adikari Arachchige
• Targeting elevated Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 in airway epithelium: the role of anthocyanins from New Zealand blackcurrant. - Madiha Ajaz
• Lipid pathway disruption predicts growth divergence in post-weaning piglets - Paul Bogere
• A novel gut-mediated mechanism for the link between metabolic diseases and COVID-19. - Michael J Houghton
• Prenatal flavour exposure: transfer of feed volatiles from breeder hen diets to broiler chicken embryos - Marta M Navarro

• Disordered eating and university course, first-year nutrition students have higher orthorexia scores - Katya Clark
• Who's experience counts? migrant and refugee voices on food insecurity measurement - E Clarke
• Cultivating Positive Food Environments in Early Childhood Education and Care settings: Introducing the Artichoke Model  - Audrey Elford
• SchoolFoodies: The Food and Nutrition Curriculum Toolkit - Danielle Gallegos
• Nutrition professionals’ perspectives towards the scope-of-practice for nutrition science graduates - Anita Stefoska-Needham

• Gender differences in the prevalence of food insecurity among men and women in Nigeria.   - Chioma Anidi
• Sodium content of breads in Australia: trends overtime and adherence to the Partnership Reformulation Program - Natalie Marinho Dantas
• Insta worthy, but is it healthy? Nutrient and food group composition of recipes by influential Instagram accounts - Emily Denniss
• Serving sizes and portion-control visual cues on packaged snacks – An audit study in Australian supermarkets - Monica Qingzhou Liu
• Understanding and perceived usefulness of effect estimates among Accredited Practising Dietitians: a randomised online survey - Elizabeth P Neale

• A short-chain galacto-oligosaccharides and long-chain fructo-oligosaccharides prebiotic blend can improve gut-immunity outcomes for formula-fed children - Tim Cassettari
• Changes in taste perception during menopause - Andrew Costanzo
• Planning for Pregnancy, Not for Hunger: Assessing Food Insecurity in the Pre-Pregnancy Period   - Amanda Dickson
• The effect of body mass index and prebiotics supplementation on gestational diabetes mellitus - Rachelle Pretorius
• A systematic review of studies measuring the dietary intake of commercial complementary foods for infants and young children - Bianca Smith
• Maternal Dietary Intervention Modulating Iron Saturation and Sialic Acid in Lactoferrin: Effects on Offspring PolySia–NCAM Expression and Behavior - Bing Wang

• Dietary fat guidelines and commentary – a temporal and thematic analysis - Timothy Gill
• Mapping Digital Delivery Methods for Interventions of diet and physical activity in Online Clinical Trials: An Umbrella Scoping Review - Digby JG Krastins
• The Livewell Diet for Australia? Adaptation of a UK sustainable diet and assessment of the potential nutritional implications of its adoption by Australian adults – a dietary modelling study - Lily Donosky
• Food insecurity in Australia: A social network analysis of relevant parties - Monica Venosa
• Big Data, Nutrition, and Mental Health: Implications for Artificial Intelligence Interventions - Kingsley A Kalu

Calling all students and early career researchers. Join us for a “Meet the Experts” session and connect with leading professionals in nutrition. This is a unique opportunity to gain insights, ask questions, and build valuable networks over an informal lunch session. We are pleased to have the following Experts joining the session and keen to share their insights with you.

• Prof Sarah McNaughton - Professor & Discipline Lead for Nutrition and Dietetics University of Queensland
• Prof Anna Rangan – Professor, Program Director Master of Nutrition and Dietetics, Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney
• Emeritus Prof Amanda Lee - Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of Queensland
• Prof Louise Burke - Chair of Sports Nutrition, Exercise and Nutrition Research Program Australian Catholic University.
• Emeritus Prof David Fraser - Emeritus Professor of Animal Science, University of Sydney
• Emeritus Prof Mike Gidley - Emeritus Professor, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland

Grab your lunch from the foyer and make your way to the session.

Meet our Meet our members and Registered Nutritionists who are sharing evidence-based nutrition with the wider community. Authors will be on the NSA stand during the following times:

• Dr Emma Beckett, author of You Are More Than What You Eat , on Wednesday from 1.15 to 1.45pm

• Dr Sue Radd, author of Food as Medicine: Cooking for Your Best Health and Food as Medicine: Cooking to Prevent and Treat Diabetes, on Thursday from 10.30 to 11.00am

• Dr Sarah Gray author of It’s Not You, It’s Perimenopause , on Thursday from 12.45 to 1.15pm

This session celebrates members who are translating nutrition science into accessible and inspiring books for the public. Hear their stories, discover their motivation for writing.

Panellists:

• Rivkeh Haryono, Senior Nutrition Scientist, Dairy Australia
• Sarah Haworth, Health Education Strategy Manager & Company Dietitian, Cobram Estate Olives Ltd.
• Sudhir Yadav, Senior Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
• Stevie Wring, Health & Nutrition Manager, Woolworths Group Foundation

• Interest-holders’ views on the food and nutrition topics that should be integrated into the Australian primary school curriculum. - Estee Driscoll
• Co-creating digital resources for food policy career pathways: A student-staff partnership project - Jessica V Kempler
• Towards healthy and sustainable diets for adolescents: home economics classes focusing on pulses       - Adeline R Lanham
• Building the nutrition workforce through employability education. - Susan Mcleod
• Primary school lunches: children’s practices and perceptions - Janandani Nanayakkara
• Food security of students attending a small, regional northern Australian university - Rebecca Patterson
• Nutrition science students’ perspectives towards their scope-of-practice when delivering nutrition and dietary advice in future client-facing roles - Anita Stefoska-Needham
• Food behaviours during school time: secondary school students’ perceptions and experiences – preliminary findings - Sinali Weerasekara Kodithuwakkuralalage

• Bridging the disconnect between theory and practice: barriers to food security systems change in rural, regional and remote Western Australia. - Isabelle Chiera
• Food insecurity, mental health and social isolation in a regional Australian population - Katherine Kent
• Consumption of commercial infant and toddler snack foods among Australian children: a preliminary cross-sectional study - Katherine Kent
• Public knowledge of ultra-processed foods in Australia - Priscila Machado
• Modelling the effect of adjusting nutrient profiling criteria to determine the nutritional quality of ready meals in the Australian food supply   - Elizabeth Neale
• A comparative content analysis of food marketing strategies on social media used by big food and beverage companies - Rajshri Roy
• Machine learning enables prediction of dietary diversity at eating occasions via contextual factors - Nancy Tran

• Change in diet quality and dietary intake from pregnancy to one year postpartum: A longitudinal analysis in Australian women. - Sasha Fenton
• Association between dietary intake of the advanced glycation end-product (AGE) carboxymethyllysine (CML) and fertility status in reproductive-aged women: analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data 2017-2020 - Nicole J Kellow
• An exploration of lipidome alternation following a low-intensity nutrition intervention targeting triglycerides in gestational diabetes management - Kai Liu
• Co-designing polycystic ovary syndrome lifestyle resources: A patient-centred approach for population-level implementation - Margaret McGowan
• Dietary interventions for managing menopause symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis - Hayley M O'Neill
• Caught between convenience and concern: A qualitative exploration of Australian parental perspectives of commercial squeeze pouches for infants and children. - Bianca Smith
• Impact of telehealth-delivered Medical Nutrition Therapy on diabetes outcomes in rural general practice: a secondary analysis of the Healthy Rural Hearts randomised controlled trial - Clare E Collins

• Do markers of oxidative stress change following consumption of energy-restricted diets containing almonds compared with carbohydrate-rich snack foods? - Alison M Coates
• Exploring associations between estimated live microbe intakes and health indicators using the Australian Eating Survey - Maria Gomez Martin
• Using the genetics of chemosensory perception to understand causal impacts of dietary patterns on cardiometabolic health - Phoebe SC Hui
• Higher fish consumption is associated with lower symptoms of depression in Australian adults with multiple sclerosis - Hajar Mazahery
• Transcriptomic Signatures for Personalized Obesity Treatment: Insights from Adipose and Blood Tissues - Chiara Murgia
• Both the quantity and diversity of dietary flavonoid intake contribute to lower mortality and chronic disease risk in the UK Biobank cohort study - Benjamin Parmenter
• Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of type-2 diabetes in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort study   - Natalia Tolstova
• Investigating the association between post-migration nutrition and lifestyle transition and the risk of developing chronic diseases among sub-Saharan Africa migrants in New South Wales:  A case of Nigerian migrants - Blessing J. Akombi-Inyang

Venue: Cora Restaurant