300: Personalised nutrition - looking at the impact of different interventions

<div>Personalised nutrition has been making headlines for some time, but how much impact do different types of interventions have, and which work best?<br> <br> </div> <div>Science has now advanced to a point where it can look deep inside us as individuals and calculate individual nutrition and health needs.  <br> <br> </div> <div>As a result, the personalised nutrition sector <a href="https://foodmatterslive.com/article/personalised-nutrition-market-forecast-21-billion-dollars-by-2028/">is rapidly expanding</a>. But among the hundreds of apps and advisors out there, reliable research about the effectiveness of these tools isn’t easy to find.   <br> <br> </div> <div>The health advice may be personal, the question is: Will it work?  And will any lifestyle changes stick around long-term?<br> <br> </div> <div>This where the <a href="https://preventomics.eu/">Preventomics Programme</a> comes in. It has been gathering evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to personalised nutrition, and analysing their worth.<br> <br> </div> <div>It is a huge bit of research, looking at the potential of omics sciences, especially metabolomics, and changes in habits as drivers of development.<br> <br> </div> <div>Participants were given personalised plans for nutrition and lifestyle habits to improve their health, based on the individual, such as physical and behavioural traits, lifestyle, genotype, preferences and physical condition.<br> <br> </div> <div>There were three scenarios:<br> <br> </div> <ul> <li>Personalised recommendations at the point of sale with products suggested to be added to the basket beneficial for the users.</li> <li>Personalised delivery food service responding to the nutritional user’s profile, preferences and physical and behavioural traits.</li> <li>Personalised nutritional advice by nutritionists for subjects with abdominal obesity through a software and mobile app.</li> </ul> <div>Listen to the full episode to find out what was learned and how it might impact the personalised nutritio