The evolution of nutrition research

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara K. Isaak ◽  
Yaw L. Siow
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
New Age ◽  
Gene Interactions ◽  
Personalized Nutrition ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but will rather cure and prevent disease with nutrition”. Thomas Edison's contemplation may come to fruition if the nutritional revolution continues in its current course. Two realizations have propelled the world into a new age of personalized nutrition: (i) food can provide benefits beyond its intrinsic nutrient content, and (ii) we are not all created equal in our ability to realize to these benefits. Nutrigenomics is concerned with delineating genomic propensities to respond to various nutritional stimuli and the resulting impact on individual health. This review will examine the current technologies utilized by nutrigeneticists, the available literature regarding nutrient-gene interactions, and the translation of this new awareness into public health.

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

There will be more pandemics. A pandemic might come from an old, familiar foe such as influenza or might emerge from a new source—a zoonosis that makes its way into humans, perhaps. The epilogue asks how the world will confront pandemics in the future. It is likely that patterns established long ago will re-emerge. But how will new challenges, like climate change, affect future pandemics and our ability to respond? Will lessons learned from the past help with plans for the future? One thing is clear: in the face of a serious pandemic much of the developing world’s public health infrastructure will be woefully overburdened. This must be addressed.

scholarly journals Back to the future: the changing frontiers of nutrition research and its relationship to policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Nutritional Transition ◽  
The Relationship

Seventy years have elapsed since the Nutrition Society was founded and John Boyd Orr became its first Chairman. Over the intervening period, nutrition research has embraced and responded to a wide variety of challenges as the requirements of research have evolved and changed. This paper reflects on some of the major challenges that have influenced nutrition research over the past 70 years and considers where nutrition stands today along with the challenges for the future. In the past, these challenges have included food security and improvements in animal nutrition to enhance production through problems of overnutrition, such as CVD and obesity, as well as the recognition of the importance of early-life nutrition. The challenges for the future include how to translate the increasingly comprehensive and complex understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health, being gained as a result of the genomic revolution, into simple and accessible policy advice. It also includes how we learn more about the ways in which diet can help in the prevention of obesity as well as the ways in which we prevent the rise in complex diseases in emerging nations as they undergo nutritional transition. From this, it is clear that nutrition research has moved a long way from its initial focus on nutritional deficiencies to a subject, which is at the heart of public health consideration. This evolution of nutrition research means that today diet and health are high on the political agenda and that nutrition remains a priority area for research. It has been 70 years since 1941 when the Nutrition Society was established, under its first Chairman, John Boyd Orr. At that time there were many who believed that nutrition research had reached its peak and there was little left to discover. This view stemmed from the fact that most vitamins and minerals had been discovered and that the syndromes associated with nutritional deficiencies in these were largely known. Despite this gloomy prognosis, the intervening 70 years have witnessed a remarkable evolution in nutrition research, which has underpinned key Government policies, ranging from food security right through to public health. This review considers some major developments that have helped to shape nutrition research over the past 70 years and in so doing have changed its frontiers.

scholarly journals Rethinking Europe: the Lithuanian Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Violeta Motulaitė
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Lisbon Treaty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
European Unity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Eu

The initiative of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CFE) stems out of the necessity to re-evaluate the European Union project after the Brexit, the wave of populism and nationalism and the changing geopolitical environment in the world, as well as to reflect upon the European unity ten years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. As mentioned in this Franco – German initiative, it was meant to address all issues at stake and guide the future of Europe with a view to turning the EU more united and sovereign. It should have focused on policies and it should have identified the main reforms to be implemented as a matter of priority in each block of policies, setting out the types of changes to be made. The current public health crisis has redefined the problems and priorities of the EU. Some issues have become less topical, some have remained relevant and some have emerged as high priorities only now.

scholarly journals A PRACTICAL STUDY ON LOGISTICS RESPONSE TO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FINE MANAGEMENT—TAKING LOGISTICS SUPPORT OFFICE OF CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) AS AN EXAMPLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI XU ◽  
LUN LI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The healthy development of higher education cannot be separated from the strong support and guarantee of university logistics. In the face of public health emergencies, if we want to further strengthen the function of logistics support and support in colleges and universities, and enhance the awareness and ability of coping, we should first start with delicacy management. After the baptism of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic, it is necessary for the logistics of universities to sum up their experience carefully, make good plans ahead of time, and make full response and preparation for all kinds of public health emergencies that may occur in the future. And this provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese plan for colleges and universities around the world to deal with public health emergencies.

Back to the Future: The Eschatological Vision of Advent

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-370
Author(s):  
Gail R. O'day
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Sacred Story ◽  
The Church

The cyclical nature of the church's timekeeping means that the sacred story begins anew at Advent, inviting the church to place the coming of the Christ child in a cosmic context in which even time is redefined by God's anticipated in-breaking into the world. Advent is the season of new beginnings and new hopes in its anticipation of the dawning of God's new age.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in Canada: Predictions for the future and control lessons from Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Christian ◽  
Francis Christian
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
National Scale ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Smartphone Technology ◽  
And Control ◽  
Made In

AbstractCOVID-19 has spread with unequal efficiency in various parts of the world. In several European countries including Italy, the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases has followed a consistent, exponential pattern of spread. However, some countries, notably Taiwan and Hong Kong, have achieved a different outcome and have managed to bring the COVID-19 outbreak in their countries rapidly under control, without entering the exponential pattern and with very few cases. They have used several different approaches to COVID-19 outbreak control, including the innovative use of smartphone technology and the widespread use of surgical face masks. We show through our models, that Canada has followed the same, consistent COVID-19 exponential growth pattern that is seen in Italy. Both nationally and in its most heavily affected provinces, there is exponential growth of COVID-19 cases, making it possible to make predictions for the future, if no further interventions are made in public health policy. In particular, we argue for the urgent introduction of surgical face masks in health care and other settings and the harnessing of the power of smartphone technology on a national scale.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the 1918 influenza pandemics: a concise overview and lessons from the past

Open Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Madiha Asghar ◽  
Misbahud Din ◽  
Abdul Waris ◽  
Muhammad Talha Yaseen ◽  
Tanzeel Zohra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World Health ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
1918 Influenza ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in December, 2019, in Wuhan, China. Even the public health sector experts could not anticipate that the virus would spread rapidly to create the worst worldwide crisis in more than a century. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency on January 30, 2020, but it was not until March 11, 2020 that the WHO declared it a global pandemic. The epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 is different from the SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2002 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012; therefore, neither SARS nor MERS could be used as a suitable model for foreseeing the future of the current pandemic. The influenza pandemic of 1918 could be referred to in order to understand and control the COVID-19 pandemic. Although influenza and the SARS-CoV-2 are from different families of viruses, they are similar in that both silently attacked the world and the societal and political responses to both pandemics have been very much alike. Previously, the 1918 influenza pandemic and unpredictability of the second wave caused distress among people as the first wave of that outbreak (so-called Spanish flu) proved to be relatively mild compared to a much worse second wave, followed by smaller waves. As of April, 2021, the second wave of COVID-19 has occurred around the globe, and future waves may also be expected, if the total population of the world is not vaccinated. This article aims to highlight the key similarities and differences in both pandemics. Similarly, lessons from the previous pan-demics and various possibilities for the future course of COVID-19 are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Mental Health and COVID - 19: An Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Simonetti ◽  
Carmela Iosco ◽  
Gianfranco Taruschio
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Health Area ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Since January, the disease caused by the Sars Cov-2 virus has spread and following pandemic. In a few months, the virus is seriously affecting the health systems of the various countries of the world and placing people in difficult psychological conditions. Few scientific resources on mental health have been published but still no one has proposed an action plan to cope the future psychological problems.This manuscript provides a plan to easily frame the priorities of mental health area related to COVID-19 to be taken into consideration which should be disseminated and that should be known by all health professionals and also by the major administrators of public health.

scholarly journals How many relevant SARS-CoV-2 variants might we expect in the future?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Littera ◽  
Maurizio Melis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
World Health ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Simple Mathematical Model ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Health Organization

Objectives: The emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants is a major challenge in the management of Covid-19 pandemic. A crucial issue is to quantify the number of variants which may represent a potential risk for public health in the future. Methods: We fitted the data on the most relevant SARS-CoV-2 variants recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO). The function exploited for the fit is related to the total number of infected subjects in the world since the start of the epidemic. Results: We found that the number of relevant SARS-CoV-2 variants up to November 2021 was about 44. Moreover, the number of new relevant variants per ten million cases turned out to be 1.64 in November 2021, slightly decreased in comparison to the value of 2.29 in March 2020. Conclusions: Our simple mathematical model can evaluate the number of relevant SARS-CoV-2 variants as the cumulative number of cases increase worldwide and may represent a useful tool in planning strategies to effectively contrast the pandemic.

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