My thoughts on Nutrition in 2017 - hopes, concerns, expectations and things to look out for: 1. The National Academies of Medicine (NAM) - NAM is making moves on laying a framework for addressing chronic diseases within the context of the dietary reference intakes. It'll be interesting to see what directions NAM moves in and how actionable this framework will be. Nutrition has a long history of relying on variable qualities of evidence to achieve its recommendations that's led to a lot of talk about how to make nutrition policy. When it comes to addressing chronic disease, we have very few validated surrogate outcomes (e.g. LDL) to link nutrient intakes to, and major parts of the field of medicine are moving away from these due to their limitations . Nutrition has a really poor history of conducting large randomized controlled trials with meaningful, interpret-able outcomes (e.g. MRFIT, WHI, PREDIMED), especially when brought together in seemingly endless variations of m
Nutritional Sciences: Basic Science and Clinical Perspectives