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History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy
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Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues describe how the history of modern nutrition science has shaped current thinking
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This historical review argues that modern nutrition science is young and was shaped by early single-nutrient deficiency discoveries, leaving a reductionist legacy in research, dietary guidelines, and policy. It calls for a shift toward food-based diet patterns and systems-level policy to address both undernutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases.
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- Modern nutrition science is less than a century old: the first vitamin was isolated and chemically defined in 1926, and the first half of the 20th century focused on identifying and synthesizing vitamins and minerals to prevent deficiency diseases such as scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets, xerophthalmia, and nutritional anaemias.
- A reductionist, single-nutrient model was extended to diet-related non-communicable diseases, exemplified by the 1977 US Senate report *Dietary Goals for the United States* and the 1980 *Dietary Guidelines for Americans*, which focused on total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, sodium, and fiber.
- Later evidence showed that a focus on total fat produced little measurable health benefit, while diet patterns such as Mediterranean and similar food-based patterns showed more consistent benefits; single-nutrient theories were inadequate to explain many effects of diet on non-communicable diseases.
- Lower income countries now face a “double burden” of conventional malnutrition (insufficient calories and micronutrients) and modern malnutrition (poor diet quality) leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer; policy should prioritize food-based targets, trusted communication, and integrated systems-level strategies.
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- Design: narrative historical review and commentary on modern nutrition science, dietary guidelines, and food policy; no systematic review, data sample, or formal quantitative analysis is described.
- Approach: chronological synthesis of key historical events from the 1910s to the present, organized into eras such as vitamin discovery, fat versus sugar and the protein gap, diet-related chronic diseases and supplementation, and recent evidence debates and diet patterns.
- Main analysis: interpretive synthesis linking historical developments to current research priorities, dietary guidelines, and policy recommendations.
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- Evident from the text: as a narrative historical review, it does not describe systematic search or selection criteria, quantitative synthesis, or formal risk-of-bias assessment; conclusions rely on selected historical events and cited literature.
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“This new science of single nutrient deficiency diseases also led to fortification of selected staple foods with micronutrients, such as iodine in salt and niacin (vitamin B3) and iron in wheat flour and bread.8 9 10”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1910s to 1950s: era of vitamin discovery
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Backstrand JR The history and future of food fortification in the United States: a public health perspective. Nutr Rev 2002; 60: 15- 26. 10.1301/002966402760240390 11842999
- Not checked yetcites [9] Bishai D Nalubola R The history of food fortification in the United States: Its relevance for current fortification efforts in developing countries. Econ Dev Cult Change 2002; 51: 37- 53 10.1086/345361
- Not checked yetcites [10] Fletcher RJ Bell IP Lambert JP Public health aspects of food fortification: a question of balance. Proc Nutr Soc 2004; 63: 605- 14. 10.1079/PNS2004391 15831133
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“These approaches proved to be effective at reducing the prevalence of many common deficiency diseases, including goitre (iodine), xerophthalmia (vitamin A), rickets (vitamin D), and anaemia (iron).”
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“However, the chemical synthesis of vitamins quickly led to food based strategies being supplanted by treatment with individual vitamin supplements.”
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“This pushed the field beyond the RDA framework and other nutrient metrics designed to identify thresholds for nutrient deficiency diseases, and towards complex biological effects of foods and diet patterns.40 41 42 43 44”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Jacobs DR Jr Tapsell LC Food, not nutrients, is the fundamental unit in nutrition. Nutr Rev 2007; 65: 439- 50. 17972438
- Not checked yetcites [41] Mozaffarian D Ludwig DS Dietary guidelines in the 21st century–a time for food. JAMA 2010; 304: 681- 2. 10.1001/jama.2010.1116 20699461
- Not checked yetcites [42] Jacobs DR Tapsell LC Food synergy: the key to a healthy diet. Proc Nutr Soc 2013; 72: 200- 6. 10.1017/S0029665112003011 23312372
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“Together, these advances suggested that single nutrient theories were inadequate to explain many effects of diet on non-communicable diseases.”
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“The debate essentially ended when in 1975 leading scientists in the US and London independently concluded from the scientific evidence that a lack of food was the main problem:22”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1950s to 1970s: fat versus sugar and the protein gap
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Carpenter K Protein and energy: a study of changing ideas in nutrition. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Not checked yetcites [23] Waterlow JC Payne PR The protein gap. Nature 1975; 258: 113- 7. 10.1038/258113a0 810729
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“However, the earlier decades of uncertainty had fostered a multinational industry that continued to promote formula and baby foods in low income countries based on their protein content and nutrient fortification.”
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“This conclusion influenced subsequent efforts to tackle malnutrition in developing countries.”
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“This was not without controversy: in 1980, the US National Academy of Sciences Food and Nutrition Board reviewed the data and concluded that insufficient evidence existed to limit total fat, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol across the population.20”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1950s to 1970s: fat versus sugar and the protein gap
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- Not checked yetcites [20] National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board Toward healthful diets. National Academy of Sciences, 1980.
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“This progress was extended to recognition of the relevance of diet patterns such as traditional Mediterranean or vegetarian diets that emphasised minimally processed foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, whole grains, and plant oils and low amounts of highly processed foods rich in starch, sugar, salt, and additives.32 33”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee 2015. http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/
- Not checked yetcites [33] Mozaffarian D Dietary and policy priorities for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity: a comprehensive review. Circulation 2016; 133: 187- 225. 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018585 26746178 PMC4814348
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“The first vitamin was isolated and chemically defined in 1926, less than 100 years ago”
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“In 1932, vitamin C was isolated and definitively documented, for the first time, to protect against scurvy,6 some 200 years after ship’s surgeon James Lind tested lemons for treating scurvy in sailors.7”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1910s to 1950s: era of vitamin discovery
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- Not checked yetcites [6] American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks. The Discovery of Vitamin C by Albert Szent-Györgyi. 2002. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/szentgyorgyi.html
- Not checked yetcites [7] Lind J A Treatise of the scurvy. A Millar, 1753.
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“Their identification in animal and human studies proved the nutritional basis of serious deficiency diseases and initially led to dietary strategies to tackle beriberi (vitamin B1), pellagra (vitamin B3), scurvy (vitamin C), pernicious anaemia (vitamin B12), rickets (vitamin D), and other deficiency conditions.”
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“Casimir Funk in 1913 came up with idea of a “vital amine” in food, originating from the observation that the hulk of unprocessed rice protected chickens against a beriberi-like condition.5”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1910s to 1950s: era of vitamin discovery
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Eijkman C. Nobel Lecture: the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1929. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1929/eijkman-lecture.html.
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“This article describes key historical events in modern nutrition science that form the basis of our current understanding of diet and health and clarify contemporary priorities, new trends, and controversies in nutrition science and policy.”
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“By the mid-20th century all major vitamins had been isolated and synthesised (fig 1).”
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“The first half of the 20th century witnessed the identification and synthesis of many of the known essential vitamins and minerals and their use to prevent and treat nutritional deficiency related diseases including scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets, xerophthalmia, and nutritional anaemias.”
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“For example, the first recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) were a direct result of these concerns, when the League of Nations, British Medical Association, and the US government separately commissioned scientists to generate new minimum dietary requirements to be prepared for war.14”
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Harper AE Evolution of recommended dietary allowances–new directions? Annu Rev Nutr 1987; 7: 509- 37. 10.1146/annurev.nu.07.070187.002453 3300745
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“This “vital amine” or vitamin was first isolated in 1926 and named thiamine, and subsequently synthesised in 1936 as vitamin B1.”
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“Research on the role of nutrition in complex non-communicable chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancers, is even more recent, accelerating over the past two or three decades and especially after 2000.”
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“Accelerating economic development and modernisation of agricultural, food processing, and food formulation techniques continued to reduce single nutrient deficiency diseases globally.”
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“Among the most important scientific development of recent decades was the design and completion of multiple, complementary, large nutrition studies, including prospective observational cohorts, randomised clinical trials, and, more recently, genetic consortiums.”
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“Field trials provided a basis for WHO recommendations for widespread micronutrient supplementation, especially during pregnancy, with iron and vitamin A, and for fortification of salt with iodine to prevent goitre and developmental abnormalities such as congenital hypothyroidism and hearing loss.”
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“For weight loss and glycaemic control, decades of emphasis on low fat diets were questioned by the results of a series of prospective cohort studies, metabolic feeding studies, and randomised trials, which showed that foods rich in healthy fats produced benefit, while foods rich in starch and sugar caused harm.33 45 46 47”
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Mozaffarian D Dietary and policy priorities for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity: a comprehensive review. Circulation 2016; 133: 187- 225. 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018585 26746178 PMC4814348
- Not checked yetcites [45] Mensink RP Zock PL Kester AD Katan MB Effects of dietary fatty acids and carbohydrates on the ratio of serum total to HDL cholesterol and on serum lipids and apolipoproteins: a meta-analysis of 60 controlled trials. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 77: 1146- 55. 10.1093/ajcn/77.5.1146 12716665
- Not checked yetcites [46] Tobias DK Chen M Manson JE Ludwig DS Willett W Hu FB Effect of low-fat diet interventions versus other diet interventions on long-term weight change in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2015; 3: 968- 79. 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00367-8 26527511 PMC4667723
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“This led to a proliferation of industrially crafted food products low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol and fortified with micronutrients, as well as expansion of other nutrient focused technologies to reduce saturated fat such as partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils.”
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“Ultimately, the emphasis on fat won scientific and policy acceptance, embodied in the 1977 US Senate committee report Dietary Goals for the United States, which recommended low fat, low cholesterol diets for all.”
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“At the same time, the rising burdens of diet related non-communicable diseases began to be recognised, leading to new research directions.”
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“Evidence was increasing that vitamin A supplements could prevent child mortality from infection, such as measles, as well as preventing night blindness and xerophthalmia.26”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Sommer A West KPJ Vitamin A deficiency: health, survival, and vision. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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“Coronary mortality also began to fall in high income countries, but many other diet related chronic diseases were increasing, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and several cancers.”
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“Clinical trials allowed further testing of specific questions in targeted, often high risk populations, in particular effects of isolated vitamin supplements and, more recently, specific diet patterns.”
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“Genetic consortiums provided important evidence on genetic influences on dietary choices, gene-diet interactions affecting disease risk factors and endpoints, and Mendelian randomisation studies of causal effects of nutritional biomarkers.”
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“Thus, despite the shift in scientific thinking to focus on economic development, substantial emphasis remained or even accelerated on providing sufficient calories, most often as starchy staples, plus vitamin fortification and supplementation.”
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“In contrast to single nutrients, physiological intervention trials, large cohort studies, and randomised clinical trials provided more consistent evidence for diet patterns, such as low fat diets (few significant effects) or Mediterranean and similar food based patterns (consistent benefits).32 33”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee 2015. http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/
- Not checked yetcites [33] Mozaffarian D Dietary and policy priorities for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity: a comprehensive review. Circulation 2016; 133: 187- 225. 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018585 26746178 PMC4814348
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“In addition, nutrient supplementation strategies remained effective at preventing or treating endemic deficiency diseases.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1950s to 1970s: fat versus sugar and the protein gap
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“More importantly, these studies followed the deficiency disease model, largely considering isolated single nutrients.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1970s to 1990s: diet related chronic diseases and supplementation
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“During the next 20 to 30 years, calorie malnutrition and specific vitamin deficiencies fell sharply in high income countries because of economic development and large increases in low cost processing of staple foods fortified with minerals and vitamins.”
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“At the same time, work by John Yudkin and others implicated excess sugar in coronary disease, hypertriglyceridemia, cancer, and dental caries.”
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“Cohort studies provided, for the first time, individual level, multivariable adjusted findings on a range of nutrients, foods, and diet patterns and a diversity of health outcomes.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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“Modern nutrition science is young: It is less than one century since the first vitamin was isolated in 1926”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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“After decades of focus on simple, reductionist metrics such as dietary fat, saturated fat, nutrient density, and energy density, the emerging true complexities of different foods and diet patterns create genuine challenges for understanding influences on health and wellbeing.”
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“Recognition of complexity is a key lesson of the past.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Future of nutrition science
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“This is seen, for example, in the reductionist, single nutrient focus of many of the UN sustainable development goals.”
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“This is common in scientific progress whether in nutrition, clinical medicine, physics, political science, or economics: initial observations lead to reasonable, simplified theories that achieve certain practical benefits, which are then inevitably advanced by new knowledge and recognition of ever-increasing complexity.35”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Future of nutrition science
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [35] Mozaffarian D Forouhi NG Dietary guidelines and health—is nutrition science up to the task? BMJ 2018; 360: k822. 10.1136/bmj.k822 29549076
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“Even when non-communicable diseases are considered, the predominant focus is on obesity rather than the diverse risk pathways and conditions affected by nutrition—facilitating a misleading concept of “overnutrition” rather than unhealthy dietary composition as the root problem.55”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [55] Min J Zhao Y Slivka L Wang Y Double burden of diseases worldwide: coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition-related non-communicable chronic diseases. Obes Rev 2018; 19: 49- 61. 10.1111/obr.12605 28940822 PMC5962023
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“Relatively little rigorous evaluation has been done on potential long term health consequences of modern shifts in agricultural practices, livestock feeding, crop breeding, and food processing methods such as grain milling and processing; plant oil extraction, deodorisation, and interesterification; dairy fat homogenisation; and use of emulsifiers and thickeners.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Future of nutrition science
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“However, it is now clear that knowledge alone has relatively limited effects on behaviour, and that broader systems, policy, and environmental strategies are needed for effective change.66 67”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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- Not checked yetcites [66] Afshin A Micha R Khatibzadeh S Dietary policies to reduce non-communicable diseases. In: Brown GW Yamey G Wamala S, eds. The handbook of global health policy. 1st ed John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. 10.1002/9781118509623.ch9
- Not checked yetcites [67] Mozaffarian D Afshin A Benowitz NL American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Council on the Kidney in Cardiovasc Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2012; 126: 1514- 63. 10.1161/CIR.0b013e318260a20b 22907934 PMC3881293
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“The first half of the 20th century focused on the discovery, isolation, and synthesis of essential micronutrients and their role in deficiency diseases”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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“In addition, a precipitous rise in non-communicable diseases in these countries has led to new focus on the “double burden”—both conventionally conceived malnutrition (insufficient calories and micronutrients) leading to poor maternal and child health and modern malnutrition (poor diet quality) leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [53] Black RE Victora CG Walker SP Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet 2013; 382: 427- 51. 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60937-X 23746772
- Not checked yetcites [54] Kosaka S Umezaki M A systematic review of the prevalence and predictors of the double burden of malnutrition within households. Br J Nutr 2017; 117: 1118- 27. 10.1017/S0007114517000812 28514987
- Not checked yetcites [55] Min J Zhao Y Slivka L Wang Y Double burden of diseases worldwide: coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition-related non-communicable chronic diseases. Obes Rev 2018; 19: 49- 61. 10.1111/obr.12605 28940822 PMC5962023
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“In lower income countries, concerns about vitamin supplementation have emerged, such as harms associated with higher dose vitamin A supplements, risk of exacerbating infections such as malaria with iron, and safety concerns about folic acid fortification of flour, which might exacerbate neurological and cognitive deficits among people with low vitamin B12 levels.49 50 51 52”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Crider KS Bailey LB Berry RJ Folic acid food fortification—its history, effect, concerns, and future directions. Nutrients 2011; 3: 370- 84. 10.3390/nu3030370 22254102 PMC3257747
- Not checked yetcites [50] Castillo-Lancellotti C Tur JA Uauy R Impact of folic acid fortification of flour on neural tube defects: a systematic review. Public Health Nutr 2013; 16: 901- 11. 10.1017/S1368980012003576 22850218 PMC10271422
- Not checked yetcites [51] Fawzi WW The benefits and concerns related to vitamin a supplementation. J Infect Dis 2006; 193: 756- 9. 10.1086/500369 16479507
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“Over months to years, some foods may impair pathways of weight homeostasis, others may have relatively neutral effects, and others may promote integrity of weight regulation.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Future of nutrition science
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“●Lower income countries are recognising a growing “double burden” (combined undernutrition and non-communicable disease)”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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“These long term effects will be especially relevant as anti-obesity efforts shift from secondary prevention (weight loss in people with obesity) towards primary prevention (avoidance of long term weight gain in populations).”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Future of nutrition science
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“Although reductionist policies may have some value to reduce specific additives—eg, trans fats, sodium, added sugar—whole food based policies will be crucial to fully address diet related illnesses.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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“Recent advances in nutrition science have shown that foods and diet patterns, rather than nutrient focused metrics, explain many effects of diet on non-communicable disease”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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“Growing realisation of the importance of overall diet patterns has stimulated not only scientific inquiry but also a deluge of empirical, commercial, and popular dietary patterns of varying origin and scientific backing.48”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden
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- Not checked yetcites [48] US News and World Report. Best diets. 2018. https://health.usnews.com/best-diet.
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“This construct breaks down for incentivising consumption of healthy foods.”
§ History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy > Nutrition policy
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- Rests on an assumption: Most policy innovation has focused on sugar sweetened drinks, following the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control model of tax, restrict places of sale, restrict marketing, and warning labels.
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Nutrition policy to reduce non-communicable diseases has so far generally relied on consumer knowledge—informing the public through education, dietary guidelines, and product nutrition labels—assuming people will make better choices.
“Nutrition policy to reduce non-communicable diseases has so far generally relied on consumer knowledge—simply inform the public through education, dietary guidelines, product nutrition labels, etc, and people will make better choices.”
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Policy makers continue to promote total calorie labelling laws for menus and packaging and other calorie reduction policies, rather than aiming to increase calories from healthy foods and reduce calories from unhealthy foods.
“Another example of policy lag involves energy balance. Policy makers continue to promote total calorie labelling laws for menus and packaging and other calorie reduction policies, rather than aiming to increase calories from healthy foods and reduce calories from unhealthy foods.”
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The public is bewildered by evolving dietary messages.
“The public is understandably bewildered by these evolving dietary messages.”
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Many food companies compound the confusion by marketing products rich in refined flours, sugar, salt, and industrial additives, exploiting added micronutrients or terms such as organic, local, or natural to supply a false aura of healthiness.
“Many food companies compound the confusion by marketing products rich in refined flours, sugar, salt, and industrial additives, exploiting added micronutrients or terms such as “organic,” “local,” or “natural” to supply a false aura of healthiness.”
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Most policy innovation has focused on sugar sweetened drinks, following the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control model of tax, restrict places of sale, restrict marketing, and warning labels.
“Most policy innovation has focused on sugar sweetened drinks, following the model of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: tax, restrict places of sale, restrict marketing, use warning labels.”
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“recommendation for chronic disease prevention and management since the 1980s (1).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mozaffarian, D., Rosenberg, I., & Uauy, R.
- Affiliations
- Tufts University (US)
- University of London (GB)
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2018-06-13
- Volume
- 361
- Pages
- k2392
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- PMC
- PMC5998735
- OpenAlex
- W2808671770
- Semantic Scholar
- 1849f3a34ef73ad70bc3adec0cd226e7300aad4a
- Cited by
- 484
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 43 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 72 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 69 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 45.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Universidad de Chile (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL130735)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Nutrition, Health, and Society Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
- Keywords
- history of nutrition science, nutrition research, dietary guidelines, food policy, nutrition science
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Diet, Dietary Carbohydrates, Dietary Fats, Humans, Vitamins, Nutrition Policy, Dietary Supplements, Biomedical Research, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Nutritional Sciences
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