THE FOUNDATION
Paolo Sorbini Foundation "for science in nutrition" was founded by Maurizia, Pino and Alberto Sorbini to remember their father, enthusiast researcher in the science of nutrition and founder of Also, now Enervit S.p.A.
The mission of the Foundation, which is a no-profit organization, is to promote the scientific research in the field of nutrition and to spread its results. The purpose is to improve the psychophysical efficiency – in sport and in everyday life – and to prevent all the pathologies related to sedentary life, mistakes in nutrition and aging. The importance of a correct nutrition is socially acknowledged as something essential for a good quality of life.
The Foundation is under the guide of a
Scientific Committee, which conducts the activities with the collaboration of
public and private institutions and with Italians and foreign universities. The
Foundations areas of interest are: research, health and education
Research Area
The
Foundation works to support and spread the clinical knowledge in nutrition
under all its aspects: preventive, specialist, diagnostic and therapeutic and
through the promotion of research activity, professional update, continuous
education and the spreading of the culture of a correct nutrition through the
organization of congresses, seminars, practical courses, stages and participation
in clinical cases.
Health Area
The
Foundation organizes and supports programmes that inform on the correct diet as
the basis for a balanced and harmonic development of human being and the
achievement of psychophysical well-being. In particular the Foundation
considers as fundamental to educate young people especially those who go in for
sport.
Education Area
The
Foundation considers of great importance to give scientific basis to nutrition
that is very often treated by inexpert people. Because of this, it is involved
in publications and editorial projects that make the scientific topics on
nutrition more comprehensible to a wider public.
