Towards “Improved Standards in the Science of Nutrition” through the Establishment of Federation of European Nutrition Societies Working Groups

Calder, Philip C.; Feskens, Edith J. M.; Kraneveld, Aletta D.; Veer, P. van ‘t; Vries, Jan de

doi:10.1159/000506325

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“…established, concerning (1) the concepts and methodologies required for credible nutrition science, (2) organisation, capabilities and funding structures, and (3) the communication of nutrition science to the public, patients, medical community and industry [8].…”

Section: Federation Of European Nutrition Societies (Fens) Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The workshop principles followed the World Café method, using the following principles: set an appropriate context; create a hospitable space; explore questions that matter; encourage everyone's contribution; connect diverse perspectives; listen together for patterns and insights; and sharing of collective discoveries [42]. Each participant followed an individualised route around the tables to ensure interaction with a different group of individuals at each table visited and Methods in Nutrition Sciences' [8] and priority-setting and progress towards the pan-European FNH-RI.…”

Section: Figmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3). The working groups resulting from FENS 2019 are described in Calder et al 2020 [8]. To this end, FENS is enacting a working group on external communication and public trust, which aims to, among other goals, build a united strategy in the upcoming years to unify communication to policymakers as well as to science journalists and communicators.…”

Section: Communication and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This working group can interact closely with the FNH-RI and its data science capabilities; as well as with other research infrastructures and platforms such as METROFOOD, the Food Nutrition Security Cloud and Quisper; and pan-European training platforms and journals. The working group will create guidelines and standards for the use and incorporation of advanced nutrition science methods [8]. The FENS working group on organisation, capabilities and funding will aim to optimise the organisation of nutrition research by identifying key structures, capabilities and interactions within the community.…”

Section: Growing As a Community And Conquering The Table Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Malnutrition in an obese world was the fitting title of the 13th Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) conference held in October 2019. Many individuals do not eat a healthy, well-balanced diet, and this is now understood to be a major driver of increased disease risk and illness. Moreover, both our current eating patterns and the food system as a whole are environmentally unsustainable, threatening the planetary systems we depend on for survival. As we attempt to feed a growing global population, food systems will increasingly be confronted with their environmental impacts, with the added challenge of climate change-induced threats to food production. As we move into the third decade of the twenty-first century, these challenges demand that the nutrition research community reconsider its scope, concepts, methods, and societal role. At a pre-meeting workshop held at the FENS conference, over 70 researchers active in the field explored ways to advance the discipline's capacity to address cross-cutting issues of personal, public and planetary health. Using the world cafe method, four themed discussion tables explored (a) the breadth of scientific domains needed to meet the current challenges, (b) the nature and definition of the shifting concepts in nutrition sciences, (c) the next-generation methods required and (d) communication and organisational challenges and opportunities. As a follow-up to earlier work [1], here we report the highlights of the discussions, and propose the next steps to advance responsible research and innovation in the domain of nutritional science.

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Section: Federation Of European Nutrition Societies (Fens) Governancementioning

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“…Much of the challenge involves the redefinition of concepts of nutrition science, such as the definition of health and how to determine health status (of the individual, societal groups, nations, the planet), what to consider to be a causal effect and the process of achieving consensus based on the totality of the evidence on causality. Recently, a more detailed concept of health for the nutrition sciences was championed during a satellite workshop to the FENS conference [7,17,59]. At the same workshop, it was acknowledged that the quality of nutrition science should be at the highest level, however, taking into account that one must accept the fluidity of knowledge and that the spectrum of certainty will never be binary, either "A" or "B".…”

Section: Credibility and Capability Of Nutrition Sciences In The Persmentioning

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Measuring health promotion: translating science into policy

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Commonly, it is the end of life when our health is deteriorating, that many will make drastic lifestyle changes to improve their quality of life. However, it is increasingly recognized that bringing good health-promoting behaviors into practice as early in life as possible has the most significant impact across the maximal healthspan. The WHO has brought clarity to health promotion over the last fifteen years, always centering on language relating to a process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their physical, mental and social health. A good healthspan is not just freedom from morbidity and mortality, it is that joie de vivre (“joy of living”) that should accompany every day of our lifespan. Therefore, health promotion includes not only the health sector, but also needs individual commitment to achieve that target of a healthspan aligned with the lifespan. This paper explores health promotion and health literacy, and how to design appropriate nutritional studies to characterize contributors to a positive health outcome, the role the human microbiome plays in promoting health and addressing and alleviating morbidity and diseases, and finally how to characterize phenotypic flexibility and a physiologic resilience that we must maintain as our structural and functional systems are bombarded with the insults and perturbations of life.

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The Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) issues guidance for writing and reviewing press releases

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Towards “Improved Standards in the Science of Nutrition” through the Establishment of Federation of European Nutrition Societies Working Groups

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Is nutrition science ready for the twenty-first century? Moving towards transdisciplinary impacts in a changing world

Is nutrition science ready for the twenty-first century? Moving towards transdisciplinary impacts in a changing world

Measuring health promotion: translating science into policy

The Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS) issues guidance for writing and reviewing press releases

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