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The Danone International Prize for Nutrition is an award established in 1997 and presented every two years to honour individuals or teams that have advanced the science of human nutrition.
It is promoted by the Danone Institute International and offers a prize of 120,000 EUR.
Danone Institute International is a non-profit organisation originally established with funding from multinational food manufacturer Danone.
Groupe Danone SA is an international food products company with its central headquarters in France, specializing in dairy products, especially famous for its yoghurt.
The name of the factory was chosen to be "Danone" as a diminutive of the name of his son, Daniel.
As a result of recent campaigns for fatless yoghurt, in Spain cuerpo Danone ("Danone body") has become a slang term for a model-like, meagre, muscular body.
Danone Institute of Japan (DIJ) was established in December, 1998 as our fifteenth institute in the world.
The 2nd DanoneNutrition Forum was held last November on the 4th (Sat.) at the Sabo Kaikan Hall (Shoenbacher Sabo).
One of the major activities of the DI is the DanoneInternationalPrize for Nutrition which is awarded (0.8 million Francs, or 12 million Yen) once in every two years.
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