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Future Perspectives of Nutrigenomics Foods: Benefits vs. Risks

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Title Future Perspectives of Nutrigenomics Foods: Benefits vs. Risks
 
Creator Ghosh, Dilip
 
Subject Nutrigenomics
Nutrigenetics
Nutrigenomics foods
Functional foods
Nutrition
Consumers
Ethical-legal- social issues
Regulation
Gene-diet interactions
Diet
Omics
 
Description 31-36
Nutrigenomics, defined as the application of high-throughput genomics tools in nutrition research is now past its incubation phase. The poorly understood associations of diet and disease prevention in particular will likely be the single most important catalyst to its accelerated and continued growth. Whether the goal of matching foods to individual genotypes to improve the health of those individuals can be attained, and personalised nutrigenomic foods enter the world's food markets, depends on numerous hurdles being overcome: some scientific in nature, some technical and others related to consumer, market or ethical issues. Public adoption of new technologies is an important determinant for their success. Many of the drivers behind the trend in personalisation of food are now known, particularly ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) are the major drivers. Future development in the field of nutrigenomics undoubtedly will place its seemingly huge potential in better perspective. From the scientific responsibility point of view, one hopes that the new perspectives to be gained and progress to be made in this field will be so managed as to take the public at large on board, if we are to avoid another nutrition education disaster of the genetically modified organism type and dimension.
 
Date 2009-03-05T06:29:30Z
2009-03-05T06:29:30Z
2009-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0301-1208
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3338
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJBB Vol.46(1) [February 2009]