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Andrew Bremer’s Holistic Nutrition Vision
The director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Nutrition Research is charting a comprehensive new course in nutrition research, and it includes a significant role for food scientists.
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Andrew Bremer wants to change the way nutrition research is done. He wants to upend a long history of what he calls “nutritionalism,” which focused on isolated health conditions and nutrient-focused studies.
Now he’s got the platform for doing that. Bremer became director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) last September.
If he succeeds, the NIH will back studies focused on how comprehensive dietary patterns affect the whole person and how outcomes vary …
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