Description
Food selection is intimately related to the individual's health and well being.
The environmental determinants of food selection include economic, social and cultural factors, while the biological determinants include genetic, sensory, meta bolic and physiological factors.
Interactions among environmental and biological factors no doubt occur, influencing the food selection of individuals and the characteristic food choices of different population groups
Understanding the multiple processes behind food choices is a daunting task but one that is essen- tial to the goal of providing food guidance to individuals and to populations for their well being and for the purpose of preventing the many chronic diseases that are food related.
For this reason the Danone Institute sponsored an international symposium in December 2000 in Paris, France. The internationally recognized speakers were chosen because of the diversity of the expertise they bring to the study of food selection.
They represented many disciplines, including psychology, history, sociology, epidemiology, family studies, physiology/neurology, neurochemistry, genetics, nutrition and toxicology.
The presentations and discussions provided those in attendance with a fascina- ting overview of the current research on many aspects of food choice. As well, nearly forty poster presentations from fifteen countries displayed the current knowledge on a range of topics from the basic aspects of food intake regulatory mechanisms to practical programs aimed at changing human food selection behaviour.
The abstracts of the poster presentations have been published as a supplement of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
All the presentations given by invited speakers are contained in this publication as a permanent record of the December 2000 symposium.
Readers with even at remote interest in food selection will find that the papers are easy to read as well as informative.
ISBN: 2909050068
