The principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science

AbstractObjectiveTo specify the principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science.PurposeTo identify nutrition, with its application in food and nutrition policy, as a science with great width and breadth of vision and scope, in order that it can fully contribute to the preservation, maintenance, development and sustenance of life on Earth.MethodA brief overview shows that current conventional nutrition is defined as a biological science, although its governing and guiding principles are implicit only, and no generally agreed definition is evident. Following are agreements on the principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science, made by the authors as participants at a workshop on this theme held on 5–8 April 2005 at the Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.ResultNutrition science as here specified will retain its current [classical] identity as a biological science, within a broader and integrated conceptual framework, and will also be confirmed as a social and environmental science. As such it will be concerned with personal and population health, and with planetary health – the welfare and future of the whole physical and living world of which humans are a part.

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The new nutrition science project

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1079/phn2005819 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 8 (6a) ◽

pp. 673-694 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Geoffrey Cannon ◽

Claus Leitzmann

Keyword(s):

Environmental Economic ◽

Social Science ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

First Century ◽

Science Project ◽

Current Definition ◽

Nutrition Science ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Continuous Text ◽

Life On Earth

AbstractObjectiveTo show that nutrition science, with its application to food and nutrition policy, now needs a new conceptual framework. This will incorporate nutrition in its current definition as principally a biological science, now including nutritional aspects of genomics. It will also create new governing and guiding principles; specify a new definition; and add social and environmental dimensions and domains.MethodA narrative review of nutrition science, its successes and achievements, and its dilemmas, paradoxes, shortcomings, dissonances and challenges. Reference is made to 16 associated papers. Equal use is made of continuous text and of boxed texts that extend the review and give salient examples.ResultsRecent and current interrelated electronic and genomic discoveries and linked sequential demographic, nutritional and epidemiological shifts, in the context of associated and interlinked global social, cultural, environmental, economic, political and other developments, altogether amount to a world in revolution, requiring all disciplines including that of nutrition science to make comparably radical responses.ConclusionNutrition in principle and practice should be a biological and also an environmental and social science. This new broad integrated structure brings much recent and current progressive work into the centre of nutrition science, and in some ways is a renewal of the period when nutrition science had its greatest impact. It amounts to a map charting well-known and also new worlds. The new nutrition science is concerned with personal and population health, and also with planetary health – the welfare and future of the whole physical and living world of which humans are a part. In this way the discipline will make a greater contribution to the preservation, maintenance, development and sustenance of life on Earth, appropriate for the twenty-first century.

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Omics and Integrated Omics for the Promotion of Food and Nutrition Science

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine ◽

10.1016/s2225-4110(16)30053-0 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 25-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Hisanori Kato ◽

Shoko Takahashi ◽

Kenji Saito

Keyword(s):

Nutrition Science ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Integrated Omics

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Conceptual framework of research on the origin of life on Earth

The Emergence of Life ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511817540.002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Pier Luigi Luisi

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Origin Of Life ◽

The Origin Of Life ◽

Life On Earth

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Conclusion

Governing for Health ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190258948.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 183-192

Author(s):

Fran Baum

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Human Health ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Equity ◽

Good Governance ◽

Well Being ◽

Planetary Health ◽

Essential Tool

This chapter distills the contents of the book into six central messages: (1) reducing inequities is the central, vital mechanism for building population health; (2) human health is intimately connected to planetary health and needs to be viewed as part of the broader ecosystem; (3) how we govern is vitally important to how healthy, sustainable and equitable we are: good governance is centrally concerned with the involvement of all sectors to promote health and reduce inequities; (4) regulation is a powerful and essential tool for public health; (5) new ways of measuring progress are important; (6) ubiquitous leadership is required for health, equity, and well-being. The chapter elaborates on each of these and then ends with a consideration of the importance of maintaining hope and acting with courage.

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Preface

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1996.0105 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 351 (1345) ◽

pp. 1227-1231 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Natural Selection ◽

20Th Century ◽

Comparative Morphology ◽

Biological Science ◽

Selective Pressures ◽

Evolutionary Pathways ◽

Life On Earth ◽

Diversity Of Life ◽

Violent Conflicts

The great Darwinian truth that underlies our attempts to discover rhyme and reason in the diversity of life on Earth is that natural selection has shaped the form and behaviour of organisms. The search for the evolutionary pathways that lead to the present diversity of life, the study of phylogeny, was among the most powerful forces in the development of biological science in the latter part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. It provided a fascinating intellectual exercise to draw out putative evolutionary sequences and gave the excuse for quite violent conflicts of interpretation. Comparative morphology was the main (and often the only) source of data for such phylogenetic speculation. It acknowledged that some features, ‘conservative characters’, were more resistant than others to evolutionary pressures and so were more reliable for tracing lineages. To establish phylogenies it became vitally important to identify these ‘conservative’ characters and to distinguish them from features that responded m ore quickly to selective pressures and therefore indicated only recent ancestry.

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