SXSW 2019
Nutrition Technology is the Future of Food
Description:
Nourishment comes from a food replicator in Star Trek’s 24th century. It’s the ultimate example of nutrification: technology delivers healthy, sustainable eats without requiring pesky behavior change. (No cooking, animal suffering or environmental damage, either.) Even then arguments rage over the roles of machines and engineering in food production: surely home-cooked, "natural," farm-fresh meals are better! But despite rampant junk-science and technophobia, the future of food is clear. Precision nutrition will inform individual dietary choices, as will IoT and other innovations that connect the quantified self with quantified food. But the biggest health benefits to humanity will come from technologies such as nutrification that don’t rely on behavior change.
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Takeaways
- Precision nutrition is here and improving daily, but it’s no panacea. What are the challenges of relying on a personalized diet to improve health?
- Nutrification delivers benefits without behavior change. What nutrition technologies are vital to public health, and is a food replicator our future?
- A world without disease and hunger—and, arguably, immortality—is the utopian future. What other nutrition innovations are critical to food evolution?
Speakers
- P.K. Newby, Scientist and Author, The Nutrition Doctor
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P.K. Newby, Scientist and Author, The Nutrition Doctor
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