While the event moderated by IGU FHS Turkish Department Chair of Nutrition and Dietetics Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Huri Özkarabulut was starting, Ayşe Huri Özkarabulut; ''Dear Teachers, Honorable Participants and Dear Students, welcome to our event called ''The Place of Sports In Our Lives and Nutrition In Sports.'' Nutrition in sports is very important in our daily life, our aim for holding this event is to emphasize the place of sports in our lives and tell you the importance of nutrition. Now I will give the floor to our esteemed guests,'' she said.
The first speaker of the event, Specialist Dietician Tuğçe Yavuz, ''Firstly, I want to thank you to my dear teachers who invited me to this event, to Istanbul Gelisim University and to participated students. If I must talk about myself, I am a dietician for 6 years. I work at a private hospital. I work with sportsmen individually. I have 2 specializations. One of them is nutrition and dietetic, other one is movement and exercise science. I made studies on football players in exercise science. Today I will inform you about the studies we have made on football and the results obtained from these studies. I hope it will be beneficial for everyone,'' she said, and gave an informative presentation about nutrition in football. Specialist Dietician Tuğçe Yavuz talked about nutrition before and after training and during the competition and completed her speech. After replying the questions from the listeners, she continued her presentation by saying, ''Thank you for listening to me. If you have more questions about the topic, you can contact me later.''
The second speaker of the event, Dietician Ebru Kahraman said, ''Hello everyone, first I want to thank to me honorable teachers for inviting me. In 2018, I graduated from Istanbul Gelisim University, School of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. I started my internships at the second year of my education life. I did my first internship at Erciyes University. Then I did my internship at various private hospitals, institutions and Istanbul Capa Medical Faculty. All these internships made great contributions for my professional life. Here I advise students to do internships in all fields as much as possible. Because it is very important to practice in internship while learning the profession. Now, I am continuing my profession in an institution in the field of sports,'' and gave information on sportsmen nutrition. After answering the questions, she said ''I am so glad to be a part of this nice event. I thank you dear teachers and my school again for the invitation'' and ended her speech.
The third speaker of the event, Dietician Gökhan Çelik started his speech by saying, ''I want to thank my dear teachers for their invitation. In 2019, I graduated from Istanbul Gelisim University Health Science Academy Turkish Department of Nutrition and Dietetic. I also started doing my internships at 2. grade of my education period. Right now, I work at Galatasaray Sports Club Football Academy. I also have my own office and I offer consulting services on nutrition and diet. I am a sportsmen dietician who works with professional sportsmen. At the same time, I work with many elite athletes from other sports branches. Today I will give you information about ergogenic supports” and made an informative presentation about ergogenic supports. After the question and answer section was done with the listeners, Dietician Gökhan Çelik finished his speech by saying ''Thanks to the Istanbul Gelisim University family and the teachers of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetic.''
Later on during the event, member of the IGU FHS Department of Nutrition and Dietetic Assist. Prof. Dr. Halime Pulat Demir took the floor and said, “First of all, I would like to thank our speakers. Their participation made me very happy. It was very nice to see Specialist Dietician Tuğçe Yavuz, our former students and alumni Dietician Ebru Kahraman and Dietician Gökhan Çelik here. On behalf of our school, on behalf of ourselves and on behalf of our profession, I would like to thank you for all your valuable information.''
The event ended with the speech of Moderator Ayşe Huri Özkarabulut, "I would like to thank all my esteemed teachers and dear speakers who participated in the event, and our valuable students who listened to us with interest throughout the event."
