Prof. Dr. Helmut Heseker was a professor for 24 years in …

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heseker worked for 24 years as a professor of nutritional science at the Institute for Nutrition, Consumption and Health, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Paderborn. For six years he was president of the German Society for Nutrition e.V. (DGE e.V.) In November 2020, Beate Kasch, state secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, thanked Prof. Heseker, among others, as editor-in-chief of the DGE Nutrition Report for this publication. The report serves as an information source for politics, science, business, media and professionals on relevant questions in nutrition and food science. Since 2015, Prof. Heseker has been editor of the specialist journal Ernährungs Umschau. We present Prof. Heseker to you here because he produced highly significant scientific publications on the topic of mineral uptake through waters, publications that the industry would prefer to keep under wraps.