Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure for us (Indonesian Dietetic Association in collaboration with Indonesian Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University) to invite all of you to “International Dietetic Update (IDU)” which will be conducted at Jogjakarta, the city of education and culture.

International Dietetic Update (IDU) will take place on 15-17 October 2009. The aims of this conference are to upgrade the nutrition knowledge for dietitian and people who interested in nutrition field, to publish the scientific ability nutritionist and dietitian, to stimulate the interest of writing a scientific paper based on research in the field of nutrition and dietetic, to strengthen the networking among nutritionist and dietitian, to increase the number of nutrition scientific publication at national, regional and international level. The meeting will be conducted in the form of primary lecture, free paper (oral and poster presentation) in addition to exhibition.

The theme of this conference is “The Emerging of Double Burden Nutrition Problem in Indonesia”. Indonesia nowadays has faced the emerging of double burden nutrition problem in the same time; they are under nutrition and over nutrition. The under nutrition related problems such as protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, iron deficiency and iodine deficiency related disease still become the biggest health problem in Indonesia. Malnutrition happens not only in the community level but also among the hospitalized patients. Hospital malnutrition becomes a serious problem for the healing process of the patient, moreover for the post surgical patient; hospital malnutrition can delay the healing process and increase the mortality level. Nutrition status could be deteriorate during the curing phase in hospital and the patient who loss his weight significantly is in danger of relapse.

On the other hand, Indonesia also has to face the epidemiology transition that sign by the change of morbidity cases type, from infectious diseases into degenerative diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus (DM), heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndromes.

One main factor that affects the success of nutrition improvements effort is about the nutrition man power. The role of professional nutrition association becomes very important today in terms of giving proper nutrition therapy to the patient.

We  invite you to attend and make your reservation to participate in the fastest growing food and nutrition knowledge, among dietitian, nutritionist, physicians, food scientists, pharmacists, nurses, midwifes from around Indonesia and other countries.

Looking foward to see you in Jogja

Sincerely yours,

Martalena Br Purba, MCN, Ph.D