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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Capalino, Danielle Flug
• Mullin, Gerard E.
• Marian, Mary J.

Titel

Searching for the Optimal Diet Which Is Best?

Ist Teil von

• Integrating Nutrition Into Practice, 2017, p.27-36

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: CRC Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The search for the optimal diet continues to be the "holy grail" for many of the health care professionals today, presenting a challenge for nutritionists and practitioners to provide sound advice to consumers. The Western-based Standard American Diet has rapidly devolved into a processed, refined, and less nutritious selection of foods. There has been much media attention in the past several years given to this diet, which mimics that of the Paleolithic or "hunter-gatherer" ancestors. The therapeutic effect of the Paleolithic diet has been tested in a scientific model as well. One of the most popular "healthy" diets in today's Western culture and arguably worldwide is a vegetarian diet. A vegan diet is the strictest form of vegetarianism where all animal products are excluded entirely. A newly emerging concept in the search for the "holy grail" is nutritional genomics, the study of how foods affect the genes.