New framework may be effective against obesity, says study
Posted on: 04/Aug/2016 2:56:55 PM
A new study says that a new framework for human nutrition may be the latest weapon in the war against obesity. The paper was written by researchers from the University of Sydney. The study appears in the journal Annual Review of Nutrition.
The researchers called for a radical rethinking of human nutrition science through a new framework called nutritional geometry - the culmination of more than 20 years of research in the field. Nutritional geometry considers how mixtures of nutrients and other dietary components influence health and disease, rather than focusing on any one nutrient in isolation.
Speaking about the research, the scientists said, We hope this new model will assist health professionals, dieticians and researchers to better understand and manage the complexities of obesity. Our framework throws down the gauntlet to the whole field of human nutrition. It shows that the prevailing focus on single nutrients is not able to help us understand complex chronic diseases, and that an approach based on nutrient balance can help solve the problem. The traditional human nutrition science that focuses on a single nutrient approach. Our new approach provides a unique method to unify observations from many fields and better understand how nutrients, foods and diets interact to affect health and disease in humans The nutritional geometry framework enables us to plot foods, meals, diets and dietary patterns together based on their nutrient composition and this helps researchers to observe otherwise overlooked patterns in the links between certain diets, health and disease.
