{"id":3759,"date":"2018-07-12T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2022-03-12T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T05:26:40","slug":"better-foods-for-better-health-white-book-30-global-experts-share-the-latest-findings-on-childhood-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/?p=3759&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBetter Foods for Better Health\u201d White Book: 30 global experts share the latest findings on childhood nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chicago, IL, July 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018 \u2013 The 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of the Better Foods for Better Health White Book has been published, providing new insight from 30 thought leaders from science and industry on the growing role and potential of childhood nutrition to build a healthy life. The White Book is based on presentations and discussions held at the symposium from March 20<sup>th <\/sup>\u2013 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0at Les Pensi\u00e8res Center for Global Health. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/v.qq.com\/vplus\/f03d56bb29b7f4833becd2356a3493c4\/foldervideos\/s9i0025015wsdgv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u>A series of videos supplements this document.<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Organized by Fondation M\u00e9rieux with the support of M\u00e9rieux NutriSciences, the Better Foods for Better Health forum brought together over 100 global experts from academia, international organizations, NGOs, regulatory authorities and industry. This 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Better Foods for Better Health symposium produced a number of messages about childhood nutrition, including:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Diet during the first years of life has long-term effects on growth and metabolism, the immune system and the susceptibility to developing infections and allergies, as well as on behavior and cognitive development.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">A recurrent theme of the symposium was the need for more and more accurate data on nutrition to support effective interventions.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The microbiota appears key in linking diet, immunity, metabolism, cognition and behavior. A better understanding of these connections will be required to design microbiota-derived diagnostics and interventions.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The impact of many nutritional interventions has been disappointing probably because they were employed too late. Interventional studies would likely be most impactful during the prenatal or early postnatal period.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">More generally, it is important to have a narrative about nutrition that inspires policymakers to dedicate more resources and establish more interventions in this area. Nutrition plays a large role in people\u2019s health, a fact that is not always reflected in the resources dedicated to it, compared to infectious disease.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Food safety and nutrition are major global public health challenges. There is an increasing awareness that good nutrition is key to building and sustaining health and well-being. The \u201cBetter Foods for Better Health\u201d series of symposiums is dedicated to sharing the latest scientific developments in nutrition in both developed and developing countries. Valuable insight from industry is provided, placing the consumer at the center of the dialogue between scientific evidence and public policy makers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Philippe Sans, M\u00e9rieux NutriSciences\u2019 President and CEO stated: \u201cM\u00e9rieux NutriSciences supports initiatives to advance the fields of food safety and nutrition for the consumers\u2019 well-being. Childhood nutrition is a major topic that will have an impact on future generations and we are very pleased to generate discussion with events like Better Foods for Better Health\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Increasing dialogue between the scientific community, regulatory, nutrition and industry stakeholders is a top priority. M\u00e9rieux NutriSciences is proud to contribute to this dialogue with Fondation M\u00e9rieux.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A copy of the White Book is available <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com\/corporate\/white-book-childhood-nutrition-building-healthy-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upon request<\/a>.<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL, July 12th, 2018 \u2013 The 6th\u00a0edition of the B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[],"modified_by":"amyadmin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merieuxnutrisciences.com.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}