Personalized Nutrition, Genomics and the Right to Food: No Person is an Island

摘要

The word "Ubuntu" quoted above from the Bantu languages of southern Africa illustrates the inter-connectedness of human beings, and gives meaning to the saying that "no person is an island". It is the expression of the inter-dependent journey of the species in the ecosystems in which they reside, and of its accumulation over time, experience and change. One genome's variations make sense because of others'. Such level of essential connectivity is no less relevant in the case of understanding emerging aspects of post-genomics knowledge-based innovations such as nutrigenomics. For one thing, achieving effective nutrigenomics-enabled personalised nutrition will require further advances in access to information and connectivity among the innovation actors, for improving knowledge translation and synthesis strategies.