Measuring health promotion: translating science into policy
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Measuring health promotion: translating science into policy James C. Griffiths1 · Jan De Vries2 · Michael I. McBurney3 · Suzan Wopereis4 · Samet Serttas5 · Daniel S. Marsman6 Published online: 27 August 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Commonly, it is the end of life when our health is deteriorating, that many will make drastic lifestyle changes to improve their quality of life. However, it is increasingly recognized that bringing good health-promoting behaviors into practice as early in life as possible has the most significant impact across the maximal healthspan. The WHO has brought clarity to health promotion over the last fifteen years, always centering on language relating to a process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their physical, mental and social health. A good healthspan is not just freedom from morbidity and mortality, it is that joie de vivre (“joy of living”) that should accompany every day of our lifespan. Therefore, health promotion includes not only the health sector, but also needs individual commitment to achieve that target of a healthspan aligned with the lifespan. This paper explores health promotion and health literacy, and how to design appropriate nutritional studies to characterize contributors to a positive health outcome, the role the human microbiome plays in promoting health and addressing and alleviating morbidity and diseases, and finally how to characterize phenotypic flexibility and a physiologic resilience that we must maintain as our structural and functional systems are bombarded with the insults and perturbations of life. Keywords Ageing · Health promotion · Healthspan · Microbiome · Lifespan · Nutrition
Introduction Over the last four years, the Council for Responsible Nutrition-International (CRN-I) has endeavored to significantly add to the body of science through their focus on This is the tenth CRN-International conference report. Previous conference reports were published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology [56] and for the last eight years in the European Journal of Nutrition [2, 5, 28, 31–33, 37, 54]. * James C. Griffiths [email protected] 1
Council for Responsible Nutrition-International, Washington, DC, USA
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Nutrition in Transition Foundation, Gorssel, The Netherlands
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Department of Human Health & Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Research Group Microbiology and Systems Biology, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrechtseweg 48, NL‑3704 HE Zeist, The Netherlands
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Herbalife Nutrition, Ankara, Turkey
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Procter & Gamble Health Care, Cincinnati, OH, USA
orchestrating and moderating a series of expert presentations, with concomitant publications, held at the annual Codex Alimentarius (Codex) Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). The most recent topics are inter-related and have covered optimal nutrition [54], healthy ageing [28, 37], and in this most recent iteration, concepts around health prom
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