Nutrition Research Targets Disease

Food plays an essential role in human health, but can it be used to prevent or even treat disease? Food scientists and nutrition researchers think so and their stories are part of the latest interview series on Nutrition Innovation from FutureFood 2050—a multi-year program from IFT highlighting new ways of thinking and tools to sustainably feeding 9 billion plus people by 2050.

In the future, nutrition advice could be customized based on your specific genetic makeup and lifecycle—wha…