Nutrition for a Better Life
A Journey from the Origins of Industrial Food Production to Nutrigenomics
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nutrition for a Better Life (2016), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593434377
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Descripción / Abstract
In Nutrition for a Better Life, one of the food industry's leading experts takes a factual look into the past and future of food and nutrition. Former Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe shows that while in the past forty years convenience was the selling point for many industrially produced foods, consumers have now come to demand specifically healthy products. Going forward, it is health that will drive innovation in the industry. Using cutting-edge technology and scientifically based nutrition standards, the food industry will play a decisive role in improving the wellbeing of entire population groups, offering effective and cost-saving personalized diets that will both prevent and administer to the acute and chronic diseases of the twenty-first century.
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is chairman of the board of directors at Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland, as well as vice chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.
Índice
- BEGINN
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The future of food†”personalized, science-based, resources efficient, caring
- Chapter 1: On the way to nutrition of the future
- Global megatrends on the consumer side
- The tasks of the new food science
- Life Sciences†”A new dimension of science as a solution
- Chapter 2: From the beginnings of industrial food production to today
- When the specter of hunger dominated the world
- With industrialization came prosperity
- What has changed since the baby boomer period
- The international food industry
- The development of research from its beginnings to nutrigenomics
- Chapter 3: How can a growing world population stay healthy and live longer?
- Societal changes affect the global food industry
- Food to stay healthy and fit
- How the global food industry is structured
- Chapter 4: Life Sciences and the revolution of biology, nutrition and health
- The mission statement†”A personalized diet for different population groups
- Understanding how the body really works
- Living a long and healthy life as a research target
- Chapter 5: The responsibility of the food industry
- The consumer is the focus from the very beginning
- The growing market for specialty and wellness food
- Nutrition as therapy
- Solutions for certain life situations and risk groups
- Chapter 6: The responsibility of policy
- Preventive health systems as part of global health
- Ensuring fair competition as a political task
- Chapter 7: The responsibility of each individual
- What can we decide and what not?
- Traditions, diet myths and ideological trends
- How the social environment shapes our eating habits
- The influence of diet on health
- Chapter 8: Milestones on the way to the future
- What is conceivable, what is possible?
- Appendix
- Notes
- Literature
- Internet
- Acknowledgements
- Index