Fundación IMDEA Alimentación
The overall aim of IMDEA Food is to undertake world class research into food, nutrition and health, and to identify nutritional strategies of economic and social value. Its founding mandate is to translate health and nutrition research into benefits for the economy of the Madrid Region and wider Spain, and into the wellbeing of the country’s inhabitants.
Given the high rate of morbidity associated with chronic diseases - the onset and progress of which may be nutrition-associated - and faced with a food industry in Spain that shows strong international competition, Spanish society needs food R&D results.
Nutrition can be an effective tool in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease as different nutrients and food products have been shown to play vital roles in the body’s molecular mechanisms. Knowledge of these processes, and the possibility of controlling them via what we eat, has opened up the field of personalised nutrition.
This seeks to invest dietary strategies aimed at improving health with the greatest effectiveness. This, however, can only be achieved when the genetic profile of individuals, and the context in which they live (together dictating their physiological status), are taken into account. With this knowledge, precision, individualised nutritional interventions can be prescribed, a concept that in the coming years will form part of our everyday lives.
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