Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

Optimal nutrition and the ever-changing dietary landscape: a conference report

Lookup NU author(s): Professor John Mathers

Downloads


Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).


Abstract

The field of nutrition has evolved rapidly over the past century. Nutrition scientists and policy makers in the developed world have shifted the focus of their efforts from dealing with diseases of overt nutrient deficiency to a new paradigm aimed at coping with conditions of excess-calories, sedentary lifestyles and stress. Advances in nutrition science, technology and manufacturing have largely eradicated nutrient deficiency diseases, while simultaneously facing the growing challenges of obesity, non-communicable diseases and aging. Nutrition research has gone through a necessary evolution, starting with a reductionist approach, driven by an ambition to understand the mechanisms responsible for the effects of individual nutrients at the cellular and molecular levels. This approach has appropriately expanded in recent years to become more holistic with the aim of understanding the role of nutrition in the broader context of dietary patterns. Ultimately, this approach will culminate in a full understanding of the dietary landscape-a web of interactions between nutritional, dietary, social, behavioral and environmental factors-and how it impacts health maintenance and promotion.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Shao A, Drewnowski A, Willcox DC, Krämer L, Lausted C, Eggersdorfer M, Mathers JC, Bell JD, Randolph RK, Witkamp R, Griffiths JC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: European Journal of Nutrition

Year: 2017

Volume: 56

Issue: suppl. 1

Pages: 1-21

Print publication date: 01/05/2017

Online publication date: 05/05/2017

Acceptance date: 05/05/2017

Date deposited: 12/05/2017

ISSN (print): 1436-6207

ISSN (electronic): 1436-6215

Publisher: Springer Medizin

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-017-1460-9

DOI: 10.1007/s00394-017-1460-9

PubMed id: 28474121


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Share