Dear Nutri 2025 participants,
It is a pleasure to welcome the Nutri 2025 participants. I am honored and grateful to have the opportunity to speak with you during this congress in two presentations on the connections between the dietary shifts away from traditional foods over the past half century and the growing problem of metabolic disorders, such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, which have become particularly worrisome in Singapore and in many other countries worldwide. Dietary recommendations to eat a low-fat higher-carbohydrate diet and to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat have encouraged these dietary shifts and have coincided with these epidemics of metabolic disorders. One presentation will explore whether such dietary guidelines are justified by the evidence. The other presentation will discuss how a dietary intervention with ketogenic oils and a whole food diet low in carbohydrates and higher in healthy fats could be beneficial to people with prediabetes, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, other neurological and psychiatric disorders, as well as age-related cognitive decline. Best wishes for a productive congress.