Individual diets to become key, says JRC report

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published new research revealing that individualised diets will become the norm by 2050.

The European Commission’s in-house science centre also emphasised the move towards increasing the sustainability of the future food system, improving the understanding between food, nutrients and health and encouraging integrated policy making.

The study adds that individualised diets should by backed-up by informed knowledge through multidisciplinary research. “Research should focus on creating the necessary underpinning knowledge while defining the framework, risks and benefits of individualised dietary advice … the whole food system needs to be addressed to reduce the importance of diet as a risk factor for chronic diseases,” the JRC says in a press statement.

The report will feed into the work, policy making and identification of research priorities of Horizon 2020. The findings were announced at an international conference in Brussels entitled ‘Engage today to shape tomorrow’. The investigation was co-financed by DG Research and Innovation in the European Commission.