Foods for Health in the 21st Century A Roadmap for the Future

• Corporate Author: International Foods for Health Initiative Conference University of California, Davis
• Other Authors: Greenwood, M. R. C. (Editor), Gershwin, M. Eric 1946- (Editor)
• Format: Conference Proceeding Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Published by Blackwell Publishers on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences 2010
• Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences v. 1190
• Subjects: Functional Food > Congresses; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena > Congresses
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• Item Description: "This volume presents papers stemming from the First International Foods for Health Initiative Conference ... held on November 16-18, 2008 at the University of California, Davis, Buehler Alumni Center"--P. v
• Physical Description: x, 193 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9781573317634; 1573317632
• ISSN: 0077-8923

The new century brings challenges and opportunities with an aging population and the rise of food prices and health care costs. Scientific advances are changing the way we approach and define the scientific questions about nutrition. We can now develop molecular and genomic approaches to human intervention. There is increased appreciation of the important roles that food and food additives play in human development, especially in the special circumstances of obesity, aging, adolescence, and widespread population migrations.