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'Boden Food Plate': Novel Interactive Web-based Method for the Assessment of Dietary Intake
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Foodomics for healthy nutrition
Alessandra Bordoni1, Francesco Capozzi
1Department of Agro-Food Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
|July 11, 2014
Summary
Foodomics enhances nutritional status assessment by analyzing biomarkers. Personalized nutrition advice is enabled by understanding genetic and dietary influences on metabolic pathways for improved health outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Nutritional Science
- Biochemistry
- Genetics
Background:
- Metabolic pathways can be altered by genetic variations and dietary exposures.
- Epigenetics, nutrigenetics, microRNA profiling, and GWAS are key areas in nutritional assessment.
- Validating dietary assessments is crucial for understanding complex diet effects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how foodomics principles can improve nutritional status and needs assessment.
- To highlight the role of foodomics in personalized nutrition.
- To define health and wellness within a multidimensional framework.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing nutrimetabolomics for validating dietary assessments through food intake biomarkers.
- Employing high-throughput approaches to identify objective biomarkers.
- Analyzing genetic variants, epigenetic modifications, and microRNA profiles.
- Conducting genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
Main Results:
- Personalized nutrition advice is facilitated by understanding genetic and dietary impacts on metabolism.
- Nutrimetabolomics provides tools to validate dietary intake biomarkers.
- Objective biomarkers can be generated through high-throughput foodomics methods.
Conclusions:
- Foodomics defines health as a multidimensional space influenced by food, diet, and lifestyle.
- Understanding movements within this 'health space' is key to improving health.
- Personalized, balanced diets within a foodomics framework can lead to healthier conditions.
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