Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

The Future of Food: Not Just for Body Fuel and Fun Anymore

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

What follows is a summary of a presentation I gave to a symposium on the future of food. In attendance were farm producers, food processors, food retailers, and research scientists.

I believe that the development of nutrigenomics will prove to be the most important development in food production and preparation since the introduction of fire allowed our ancestors to eat cooked food instead of eating it raw. That’s a sweeping statement, so let me see if I can substantiate it.

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