营养与健康的历史演进、内在机理及未来展望OA

The history of humanity is a history of nutrition and health.Human nutrition has changed over time,as have human health and diseases.The synchronicity between the epochal characteristics of human nutrition and health and the era-specificity of nutrition accessibility reflects the unity of nutrition and health,which is pre-cisely determined by the symbiotic structure of humans themselves and their relationship with nature.All factors that affect human body tissues and their structural changes,including microbial communities,are nutritional fac-tors.The exchange of energy between the human body and the external environment is also a form of nutritional re-lationship.Therefore,the provision of nutrition is not just about food;it should be reexamined in a broader per-spective and at a higher level regarding nutrition and health(disease issues).This article holds that the issue of health and disease is a civilized and cultural problem,and it is the cost or price for human progress.Any hope to lead humanity into an era without the issue of health and disease through medical means and related tools is both absurd and unimaginable.Actually,the issue of health and disease is an important driving force for human pro-gress.Strategic imperatives in the new era consist of facing up to the health and disease issues in human advance-ment,fully harnessing the power of science and technology,and de-emphasizing the role of capital and its stake-holders,so as to reduce the health burdens and economic costs of societal development.