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Future of Nutrition and Chronic Disease

As another keynote lecture at American College of Nutrition Conference, David JA Jenkins of St Michael's Hospital discussed how nutrition could have a role along with powerful drugs in the future in chronic disease. - Recent hard end-point trials and cohort studies in diabetes have indicated deficiencies in drug therapies and unintended consequences in terms of CHD and cancer risk - Dietary mantra have also been questioned in relation to saturated fat and CHD risk - New diagnostic imaging techniques now allow these issues to be addressed through direct visualization and quantification of outcomes a relatively small subject numbers, suitable to nutrition intervention He also spoke about the advantages of an eco-Atkins diet. "I don't think we use our guts enough," says Jenkins, noting that a high-fiber, simian diet forces us to use more of our intestine.

Recalls and enhancing food safety

To kick off our first local Cactus International Food Technologists (IFT) chapter meeting in Tempe, Arizona, we were treated to a talk by food safety pioneer Gale Prince , the "Dean" of safety recalls. He began his talk by introducing us to the growing number of recalls in the United States. "Food safety has become a frequent topic for the media," he said. If you look at a 20-year trend, reccalls at retail have increased exponentially. Gail shared a graph of the trend and also details a few examples he's been involved with over the years. The USDA has had a number of meat recalls, which Prince shows us picks up during the summer months of May through August. He says it is partly due to people cooking outside (such as at 4th of July) on the grill, who often leave their meat out or undercook their meat. When you look at all the recalls of FDA, you also see the recalls going up, Prince said. He showed us a graph that showed that there were ove 8,000 just in the las