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The Promise of Nutrigenomics
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... KEYNOTE ADDRESS Presented by Bernadine Healy, Health Editor for U.S. News & World Report Why Nutrition and Genomics Are Important Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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... Healy experienced that neglect firsthand in the early 1990s when, as NIH director, she pushed for a bionutrition initiative to bring different fields together to do integrated systemswide research on food and nutrition. According to the document outlining the proposed initiative, "Bionutrition research employs molecular and genetic techniques to study the metabolic and behavioral consequences of food and nutrients and explores the fundamental role nutrition plays in health maintenance and disease treatment.
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... This convergence of factors offers a rare 1Functional foods contain nonnutrient compounds (bioactive food components) that confer a beneficial physiologic effect that delays or prevents the onset of chronic disease.
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... This is the moment, and we have to seize it." INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS TO THE SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS Presented by John Milner, Chief, Nutritional Science Research Group, Diision of Cancer Preention, National Cancer Institute There is, today, an unprecedented opportunity to use foods and food components to aid in achieving the genetic potential of humans, improve the overall performance of humans, and reduce the risk for chronic disease. The field of nutrigenomics holds promise for understanding genetic variability and identifying individuals who will or will not respond to a specific dietary change.
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