American Society for Nutrition, Bethesda, MD.
Adv Nutr. 2013 Sep 1;4(5):579-84. doi: 10.3945/an.113.004176.
Proper nutrition offers one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of many diseases and their associated risk factors, including obesity. Nutrition research holds the key to increasing our understanding of the causes of obesity and its related comorbidities and thus holds promise to markedly influence global health and economies. After outreach to 75 thought leaders, the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) convened a Working Group to identify the nutrition research needs whose advancement will have the greatest projected impact on the future health and well-being of global populations. ASN's Nutrition Research Needs focus on the following high priority areas: 1) variability in individual responses to diet and foods; 2) healthy growth, development, and reproduction; 3) health maintenance; 4) medical management; 5) nutrition-related behaviors; and 6) food supply/environment. ASN hopes the Nutrition Research Needs will prompt collaboration among scientists across all disciplines to advance this challenging research agenda given the high potential for translation and impact on public health. Furthermore, ASN hopes the findings from the Nutrition Research Needs will stimulate the development and adoption of new and innovative strategies that can be applied toward the prevention and treatment of nutrition-related diseases. The multidisciplinary nature of nutrition research requires stakeholders with differing areas of expertise to collaborate on multifaceted approaches to establish the evidence-based nutrition guidance and policies that will lead to better health for the global population. In addition to the identified research needs, ASN also identified 5 tools that are critical to the advancement of the Nutrition Research Needs: 1) omics, 2) bioinformatics, 3) databases, 4) biomarkers, and 5) cost-effectiveness analysis.
适当的营养是减少许多疾病及其相关风险因素（包括肥胖症）负担的最有效和最具成本效益的方法之一。营养研究是增加我们对肥胖症及其相关并发症的原因的理解的关键，因此有望对全球健康和经济产生重大影响。在与 75 位思想领袖接触后，美国营养学会（ASN）召集了一个工作组，确定了营养研究需求，这些需求的推进将对全球人口未来的健康和福祉产生最大的预期影响。ASN 的营养研究需求侧重于以下高优先级领域：1）个体对饮食和食物的反应差异；2）健康的生长、发育和繁殖；3）健康维护；4）医疗管理；5）与营养相关的行为；6）食品供应/环境。ASN 希望营养研究需求能够促使所有学科的科学家之间开展合作，推进这一具有挑战性的研究议程，因为它具有很高的转化和对公共卫生的影响潜力。此外，ASN 希望营养研究需求的发现将激发新的和创新策略的发展和采用，这些策略可以应用于预防和治疗与营养相关的疾病。营养研究的多学科性质要求具有不同专业领域的利益相关者合作，采用多方面的方法来建立基于证据的营养指导和政策，从而为全球人口带来更好的健康。除了确定的研究需求外，ASN 还确定了 5 种对推进营养研究需求至关重要的工具：1）组学，2）生物信息学，3）数据库，4）生物标志物，5）成本效益分析。
