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From Guesswork to Automated Nutrition
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
(ex: happiness psychology/neuromodulation/ persuasion (including behavioral economics, role of networks as social contagions)
3-D food printing, nutrigenomics, psychology, biomonitoring
HOW DOES IT ADDRESS “TRANSFORMING BODIES AND LIFESTYLES”
(behavior change/intervention at community/population level)
Simplifies food choices through food printing (or less far off possibilities) to help people automate their food choices to optimize for health
EXPERTS: (Max 6)
(from the list, we’ll identify one or two people to invite to the APRIL 9th EXPERT WORKSHOP)
Jim Kaput, Director, Personalized Nutrition and Medicine, FDA Center for Toxicology, [email protected]
Still working on this list...
WHICH GHE CATEGORY/IES:
(health, information, consumer electronics, food etc, just to have a sense of the most obvious domains of health, health care, and well-being we are researching)
food/nutrition
EARLY WORKING HYPOTHESIS
(some sort of narrowing down the scope of your research, where you will be looking for directional change)
Tools to develop customized nutrition—based on real time biometric tracking of an individual—coupled with advances in nutrition (and potentially food printing) will help consumers automate food choices in customized ways for personal wellbeing.
(see:
www.research.philips.com/initiatives/ipill/index.html
www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22501/
www.economist.com/businessfinance/PrinterFriendly.cfm
The new thing here is the effort to apply these technologies to/use them in the context of food and eating… So, for example, you can eat functional foods that use Phillips new delivery system to get a chemical to a particular place in your GI tract and then count your calories using your wearable calorie counting patch (or, you will be able to, assuming all goes according to plan.)
See here on food printing: www.iftf.org/node/3307
If, for example, you can, as one of the creators of the prototype suggests, “print a layer of butter at 1/1000 of a millimeter,” you can do all sorts of interesting things in terms of delivering nutrients in precisely structured ways.