TY - JOUR
T1 - What comes first
T2 - The food or the nutrient? Executive summary of a symposium
AU - Jacobs, David R.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - This article summarizes background materials and presentations at a symposium that considered the issue of the role of foods and dietary patterns vs. nutrients in relation to chronic disease risk. A model of food synergy is presented as a basis for studying whole foods and dietary patterns. Findings from a series of studies of walnuts were presented and support the concept that walnuts are a healthy food, with specific benefits in a mouse model of breast cancer growth, reductions in cardiovascular disease risk factors in humans, and motor performance and in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo cellular response to challenge in an aged-rat model.
AB - This article summarizes background materials and presentations at a symposium that considered the issue of the role of foods and dietary patterns vs. nutrients in relation to chronic disease risk. A model of food synergy is presented as a basis for studying whole foods and dietary patterns. Findings from a series of studies of walnuts were presented and support the concept that walnuts are a healthy food, with specific benefits in a mouse model of breast cancer growth, reductions in cardiovascular disease risk factors in humans, and motor performance and in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo cellular response to challenge in an aged-rat model.
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U2 - 10.3945/jn.113.182840
DO - 10.3945/jn.113.182840
M3 - Article
C2 - 24500931
AN - SCOPUS:84896460181
SN - 0022-3166
VL - 144
SP - 543S-546S
JO - Journal of Nutrition
JF - Journal of Nutrition
IS - 4
ER -