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Annalijn Conklin will present this research at the American Society for Nutrition's Scientific Sessions and annual meeting at p. Sunday, April 23, in Room SD abstract. Improving taste may reduce school lunch waste A large amount of school lunch waste comes from healthy food items. This means that, while meals served to children may meet their dietary requirements, that may not be the case after accounting for food that is thrown away.

To identify barriers to minimizing school lunch waste, University of Hawaii researchers interviewed adolescents in Hawaii whose parents received federal food assistance benefits. The results showed that improving the taste of food served at lunch may not only help reduce food waste but might also motivate youth to care about wasting food. School policies were also important. For example, presenting students with food choices instead of a standard meal and allowing students to share, compost or feed leftovers to animals may also reduce waste.

Chloe Panizza will present this research at the American Society for Nutrition's Scientific Sessions and annual meeting at p. Monday, April 24, Room SB abstract. EB is the premier annual meeting of six scientific societies to be held April at the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. Contact the media team for abstracts, images and interviews, or to obtain a free press pass to attend the meeting. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year.

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How do farm-to-fork food systems, with an increased emphasis on local agricultural production and consumption, influence dietary patterns and behaviors? How can farm-to-fork food systems ultimately be used to promote healthy behaviors and improve public health? Having an affordable, available, sustainable, safe, and nutritious food supply is also an important underpinning for making significant changes to a population's diet and lifestyle. Examples of key research areas to address include the following:. Enhancing our knowledge of the nutrient and phytonutrient content and bioavailability of foods produced, processed, and consumed.

Studying how to better align and foster collaboration between nutrition and agricultural production. Can shifting agricultural focus from principally agronomic to include quality factors such as taste, flavor, and nutritional value have positive effects on fruit and vegetable consumption? Can we leverage technologies, such as biotechnology and nanotechnology, to develop novel foods and food ingredients that will improve health, both domestically and abroad, and provide credible, tangible functional health benefits?

To tackle these enormous challenges requires the coordinated efforts of public and private partners. Nutrition research is truly a cross-cutting discipline, and the Working Group identified several tools that are also necessary to advance the priority needs in nutrition research. Adequately powered intervention trials continue to be essential for validating research theories arising from experimental and epidemiologic studies.

However, the development of new, impactful tools will help us to more effectively quantify dietary intake and food waste and to determine the effectiveness of nutrition standards, such as DRI values and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Although not a traditional tool, multidisciplinary partnerships among scientific societies, government, industry, academia, and others are fundamental to advance the nutrition research agenda. ASN and its membership must be proactive not only in efforts to advance nutrition research including initiating and leading partnerships but also in developing the tools needed to enhance the field.

ASN recognizes the need to facilitate effective communication among academia, industry, government agencies, consumers, and other stakeholders to advance nutrition. Omics especially genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics will enable us to determine how specific nutrients interact with genes, proteins, and metabolites to predict the future health of an individual. A field of study that encompasses technological advances as well as omics-based research, it is sometimes referred to as personalized nutrition. Omics hold the keys to major nutrition breakthroughs in noncommunicable disease and obesity prevention.

Omics provide information on how well nutrients are digested, absorbed, metabolized, and used by an individual. Moreover, omics will lead to new biomarkers that reveal a person's nutritional status and health status all at one time. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that uses computer science and information technology to develop and enhance techniques to make it easier to acquire, store, organize, retrieve, and use biological data. Bioinformatics will enable nutrition researchers to manage, analyze, and understand nutrition data and to make connections between diet and health that were not previously possible.

Databases are necessary to gain the full benefits of bioinformatics, because they make nutrition data easily accessible in a machine-readable format. Accurate, up-to-date food and nutrient databases are essential to track and observe trends related to the nutrition and health of individuals. Databases link food and supplement composition and intake data to health outcomes.

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Nutrient databases should be expanded to cover more foods and their bioactive components, including nonessential nutrients. Nutrition data must be incorporated into databases related to novel research areas, such as nutrigenomics and the microbiome, to adequately link these areas with nutrition. Data collection must also be improved with enhancements such as photographic food intake documentation, direct upload of food composition and sensory characteristics if not proprietary from food manufacturers, and biological sample collection.

Intake, effect, and exposure biomarkers allow us to determine and monitor the health and nutritional status of individuals and subpopulations, including ethnic and racial minorities.

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Biomarkers that are responsive to diet and nutrition will help assess disease progression and variability in response to treatment, while improving early diagnosis and prevention. Biomarkers must continue to be developed and validated to accurately track food and nutrient intake given our rapidly changing food supply. Cost-effectiveness analysis is a tool used to calculate and compare the relative costs and benefits of nutrition research interventions.

Cost effectiveness analysis helps to determine the most cost-effective option that will have the greatest benefit to public health. The multidisciplinary nature of nutrition research requires collaboration among research scientists with differing areas of expertise, many different stakeholders, and multifaceted approaches to develop the knowledge base required for establishing the evidence-based nutrition guidance and policies that will lead to better health and well-being of world populations.

Proper nutrition offers one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of chronic and noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors, including obesity.

Both of these studies showed significant reductions in cardiovascular disease and cancer in the Lyon study after relatively modest dietary changes. Perhaps the greatest barrier to advancing the connections between food and health is the variability in individual responses to diet; it is also the origin of public skepticism to acceptance of dietary advice and the opportunity for entrepreneurship in the private sector.

Imagine being able to identify, with certainty, those most likely to benefit from prescriptive nutrition advice through the various omic technologies and then providing these groups of people with customized nutrition advice based on their metabolic risk profiles.

This is the new frontier of the nutritional sciences that offers the opportunity to predictably engineer our physiologic networks for health through diet. The confidence this approach would bring to the skeptical consumer would improve adherence to weight management and disease treatment techniques and improve the chances of success for disease prevention. To realize the full positive impact of achieving good nutrition on disease prevention and the health of populations, we must have the will to invest in and support the 6 key areas of nutrition research that have been outlined above.

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It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Sign In or Create an Account. Close mobile search navigation Article navigation. Nutrition research to affect food and a healthy lifespan Sarah D. ABSTRACT Proper nutrition offers one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of many diseases and their associated risk factors, including obesity.

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