The numbers scare in global terms its talk of obesity. The World Organization for the Health estimates that 80 per cent of the European population suffers from overweight, and that of them a 30 percent are obese; in addition, a 20 percent of children and adolescents suffer obesity, while a third party is obese.

In this context, the initiatives to curb this fate of pandemic with kilos of more are always welcome, and it is in this line which includes an interesting and innovative proposal of the organization Puleva Biotech, which has been raised the development of food to prevent obesity.

Pronaos Project is the name that accompanies this initiative, which combines scientific research with technological innovation and involving 16 companies in the food sectors and technological and a total of 39 public agencies that support the initiative.

The goal in the first instance is to identify with extreme precision genetic determinants and molecular which determine the weight of a person. The pair, it was also aims to identify specifically the food ingredients, which play a key role in the weight gain of the person who consumes, develop new technological processes applied and implement new strategies for the control of obesity.

The Draft Pronaos is estimated to be implemented in a period of four years, when this generation of food would for the first time the market. The amount of time dear is really short, by which we can begin to illusions that these products may be soon in our trolleys supermarket.