ICD in perspective: Putting social responsibility into practice

The Industry Council for Development (ICD) is an Industry Non Governmental Organisation established in 1990; it aims to contribute to improving public health through partnership projects on food safety and nutrition. This paper presents ICD’s activities in the past years and explains the reasons why the food industry should have a vested interest in supporting training and education of health professionals in food safety.     

我国团膳企业营养师的重要性及其职责探讨

针对我国餐饮业集体配送的团膳产业快速发展及其多种配送模式竞相发展势态,本文根据现今城乡居民对营养健康的需求,以及我国现行有关营养与食品安全政策法规要求,对我国团膳企业营养师配备的重要性及其岗位职责作一探讨。     

Nutrition,inflammation and liver-spleen axis

ABSTRACT

Chronic low-grade systemic inflammation represents a mechanism common to many diseases linked to atherosclerosis-related pathways. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that the combination of food quantity and quality along with genetic susceptibility are able to induce the aberrant activation of innate immune signalling, which initially contributes to chronic low-grade inflammation. Liver represents the central player to inflammatory response. Dietary/metabolic factors contribute to the pathogenesis of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), the main causes of liver disease in the Western world. Enlargement of the spleen, central organ in regulating the inflammation-related immune response, is commonly seen in patients with of NAFLD, depicting the so called “liver-spleen axis.” The aim of this review was to provide an at-a-glance overview of the possible bi-directional mechanisms linking nutrition and inflammation, particularly pinpointing the inflammatory effects stemmed by nutrition on “liver-spleen axis.” In particular, the role of unhealthy diet, healthy dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet style, dietary vitamins and micronutrients, such as vitamin D or Magnesium, and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, a well-known incretin released in response to meal intake, will be discussed. The highly variability of the inflammatory response highlights the role of expert nutritionists in refining methodologies apt to assess nutritional epidemiology and to apply appropriate dietary intervention to counteract diet-induced inflammation mechanisms.     

地方高校学生学习营养学知识符合社会发展趋势

地方高校学生主要面向地方经济,他们属于未来应用型实践性较高的专业人才.在调研和分析了我国高校开展营养学专业教育后,针对地方高校学生就业日益艰难的状况,提出了地方高校化学类专业学生学习营养学知识,具有专业优势,而对于未来报考(公共)营养师,拓宽就业面有较大的帮助,符合社会发展的潮流.     

《公共营养师》教材中氨基酸评分计算谬误分析

《公共营养师》是国家职业资格培训教材,也是职业技能加点的指定教材,随着公共营养师这一职业的兴起,学习营养学的人越来越多。营养学中关于混合食物氨基酸分的计算存在一些差误。为了更正食物混合后蛋白质的氨基酸评分表中的数据错误,利用WHO／FAO提供的标准蛋白质中的氨基酸含量与各类食物中的同种氨基酸含量进行重新计算,并对原表中的数据进行比较和校对,提供正确的理论依据和计算结果。结果表明原表中的数据、结论与实际有很大的出入。