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In 2015, the Dutch-based discussion group Nutrition in Transition (NiT) initiated a critical evaluation of approaches used in nutrition science in order to understand challenges to the capability and credibility of the discipline and to foster discussions on how the standing of nutrition science can be improved. New challenges lie in developing a sustainable, safe and healthy food system allowing future food security that supports optimal growth, development and function, gaining healthy life years, preventing multifactorial diseases and multi-morbidity, and designing feasible and effective personalized and public health nutrition strategies, contributing to meeting the sustainable development. 

The unites nutrition scientists, medical doctors, ethicists, philosophers and sociologists of science. It has identified several main points of concern that can be considered major areas for an open, honest and thorough debate and discussion, in order to catalyse a new global consensus on standards in the science of nutrition. Recently, the Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) has chosen to further develop the NiT initiative and begin a more internationally oriented discussion on “Improving standards in the science of nutrition”. 

Future Food Utrecht is represented within the Nutrition in Transition group by scientist prof. dr. Aletta Kraneveld, one of the authors of this first paper. Her current research interests involve targeting the interaction between innate and adaptive immunity as well as host-microbiome interactions in chronic (inflammatory) diseases with pharmaceutical and nutritional interventions. 

Read the full paper .