Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? A health psychology perspective

FoodON: A Global Farm-to-Fork Food Ontology

Several resources and standards for indexing food descriptors currently exist, but their content and interrelations are not semantically and logically coherent. Simultaneously, the need to represent knowledge about food is central to many fields including biomedicine and sustainable development. FoodON is a new ontology built to interoperate with the OBO Library and to represent entities which ...

Nutritional genomics: food industry applications from farm to fork.

Nutritional genomics is a new and promising science area which can broadly be defined as the application of high throughput genomics (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics/metabonomics) and functional genomic technologies to the study of nutritional sciences and food technology. First utilised in the food industry by plant biotechnologists to manipulate plant biosynthetic pathways, the use ...

Changing Places: Where Will We Be with Our Patients? A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference.

Dr. Stephens knew a lot about place-his place within family medicine and the place of family medicine as a catalyst for change in our communities. In "G. Gayle Stephen's Festschrift," the evolution of our profession is mirrored by Dr. Stephen's seminal contributions to practice and service to his discipline. He describes our place as healers, teachers, scholars, builders, moral agents, professi...

The role of veterinarians in the farm-to-fork food chain and the underlying legal framework.

While the metaphor 'farm to fork' is a simple way of describing the chain that starts with the animal and follows through to the food delivered to consumers, there is a danger it could convey the idea that it only covers the food chain. The author believes that the expression should be understood to refer to a broader field--which he calls the 'veterinary domain' - which includes all aspects of...

Introducing the Urban Community Health Center (UCHC) as a Nascent Local Model: Will it be a Linchpin in the Health Sector Reform in Iran?