Wahlqvist Mark L
Center for Health Policy Research and Development, National Health Research Institutes, 35 Keyan Road, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan 350, RCO.
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2008;17 Suppl 1:5-11.
A number of imperatives require a re-think of science in general and of nutrition science in particular. Nutrition science has never been a body of knowledge in its own right and many other sciences have been nutritional in their orientation. At its best "nutrition science" has been integrative as well as reductionist. It has worked across disciplines. The IUNS, (International Union of Nutritional Sciences) undertook to re-examine nutrition science from a policy point of view and to do so with knowledge-makers in general and with the International Science Council. There is now a Sciences for Health and Wellbeing (SHWB) initiative involving all branches of science. It is expected that innovative, integrative, sustainable, and cost-effective approaches to human well-being and health will emerge. Some of the pressing needs for such collaboration have been in the areas of sustainable food systems, potable water, more nutritious crops, food and human behaviour, to reduce the burden of nutritionally-related disease (NRD) and make health care affordable. An IUNS Task Force met in Giessen in 2005. It concluded that nutrition science should develop on 3 fronts, the biomedical, societal and environmental. This will encourage new and more effective initiatives for nutrition and its partners to address local, regional and global concerns about planetary and personal health and well-being. Some important and critical areas already require collective attention. Unlike our predecessors in nutrition science, we will be unable to fulfil the expectations of us unless we progress this wider and less anthropocentric form of our science.
一些当务之急要求我们重新审视一般意义上的科学，尤其是营养科学。营养科学本身从来都不是一门独立的知识体系，许多其他学科在其研究方向上都涉及到营养方面。“营养科学”在最佳状态下一直是综合性的，同时也是还原论的。它跨学科开展工作。国际营养科学联合会（IUNS）着手从政策角度重新审视营养科学，并与广大知识创造者以及国际科学理事会共同进行这项工作。现在有一个涉及所有科学分支的健康与福祉科学（SHWB）倡议。预计将出现创新、综合、可持续且具有成本效益的促进人类福祉和健康的方法。这种合作的一些紧迫需求体现在可持续粮食系统、饮用水、更具营养的作物、食物与人类行为等领域，以减轻营养相关疾病（NRD）的负担并使医疗保健变得可负担得起。一个国际营养科学联合会特别工作组于2005年在吉森召开会议。会议得出结论，营养科学应在生物医学、社会和环境这三个方面发展。这将鼓励针对营养及其相关领域开展新的、更有效的举措，以解决地方、区域和全球对地球和个人健康与福祉的关切。一些重要且关键的领域已经需要集体关注。与营养科学领域的前辈们不同，除非我们推动这种更广泛、更少以人类为中心的科学形式取得进展，否则我们将无法满足人们对我们的期望。
