Nutrigenomics in public health nutrition: short-term perspectives

Nutrigenomics, individualism and public health.

Issues arising in connection with genes and nutrition policy include both nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics. Nutrigenomics considers the relationship between specifc nutrients or diet and gene expression and, it is envisaged, will facilitate prevention of diet-related common diseases. Nutrigenetics is concerned with the effects of individual genetic variation (single nucleotide polymorphisms) on ...

Nutrigenomics: exploiting systems biology in the nutrition and health arenas.

Nutritional sciences are discovering the application of the so-called "omics" sciences. Propelled by the recent unravelling of the human genome and the coinciding technological developments, genotyping, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are now available to nutritional research. In the future we are likely to see new screening tools for the selection of bioactive nutrients, new bioma...

Nutrition in Public Health

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Nutrigenomics: From Nutrition to Genes

It is time for a revolutionary approach in nutrition to understand how foods interact at the cellular level among individual genotypes. It seems only yesterday that Watson and Crick announced the discovery of circular DNA isolated from Escherichia coli. Since this exciting advancement in the genetics era, new research has attempted to identify the genetic basis and molecular causes of chronic d...

short-term pre-pregnancy health education may improve maternal nutrition behavior, but not nutrition self-efficacy