Tips and tricks for cooking without fat

Thursday 23rd November 2023

5pm - 6pm GMT

Join us for our second webinar for the recent Familial Chylomicronaemia Syndrome (FCS) Awareness Day which was on 3rd November. The webinar will be a practical one, with Emma Print, UK,  Professor Kirsten Bjørklund Holven, Norway, and Jill Prawer, UK.

FCS is a severe and rare familial hyperlipidaemia.  People who have FCS, are unable to break down fat in their diet. It stays in their bloodstream, causing many symptoms, the most serious of which is pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening.

The condition requires self-management and keeping to a severely restricted diet.  Recommendations are for patients to eat >20g fat per day, restrict simple sugars and drink no alcohol.  Many patients find they can eat only 10g fat per day.  For the FCS Awareness Day campaign we asked people to help raise awareness by taking the #FCS10gFatChallenge. Many did and can attest that it's not easy!

In this webinar, we aim to illustrate ways to make eating very low fat easier.  We will provide tips and techniques to help people with FCS and others on very low fat diets prepare foods which are tasty and nutritious, and offer ways to enhance flavours and provide variety to the limited foods that are suitable to eat within the dietary recommendations. Emma Print will prepare a dish to eat 'on the go'.

Cooking for FCS INSTAGRAM POST

Emma Print has a lot of experience catering for specific diets through her work as a chef working on super yachts, and runs her own business LIFE Acrobat through which she advises on living healthily.  Emma is also the community engagement manager at FH Europe Foundation.

FCS is a severe and rare familial hyperlipidaemia.  People who have FCS, are unable to break down fat in their diet. It stays in their bloodstream, causing many symptoms, the most serious of which is pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening.

The condition requires self-management and keeping to a severely restricted diet.  Recommendations are for patients to eat >20g fat per day, restrict simple sugars and drink no alcohol.  Many patients find they can eat only 10g fat per day.  For the FCS Awareness Day campaign we asked people to help raise awareness by taking the #FCS10gFatChallenge. Many did and can attest that it's not easy!

In this webinar, we aim to illustrate ways to make eating very low fat easier.  We will provide tips and techniques to help people with FCS and others on very low fat diets prepare foods which are tasty and nutritious, and offer ways to enhance flavours and provide variety to the limited foods that are suitable to eat within the dietary recommendations. Emma Print will prepare a dish to eat 'on the go'.

Emma Print has a lot of experience catering for specific diets through her work as a chef working on super yachts, and runs her own business LIFE Acrobat through which she advises on living healthily.  Emma is also the community engagement manager at FH Europe Foundation.

Prof. Kirsten Bjørklund Holven is based at the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Jill Prawer is a patient with FCS, chair of Action FCS, and the Rare Disease Project Manager at FH Europe Foundation.

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If you are unable to attend the event, registering will mean that a recording will be sent to you as soon as it is available.

We hope to see you there

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