The 8th EEHNC theme is “From Nutrition to Disease and Back”. The two-day programme will contain 3 main sessions: “Nutrition as Cause”, “Nutrition as (part) treatment or disease modifying tool” and “Nutrition as tool for disease prevention”’. The agenda consists of lectures by internationally acclaimed specialists in the areas of nutrition and veterinary science. Special attention will be paid to the relation of nutrition with conditions like obesity, equine gastric ulcer disease and developmental orthopaedic disease.