Nutrition plays a central role in health research. Unilateral diet and obesity are clearly associated with a variety of diseases such as diabetes mellitus or cardiovascular diseases. But the development of tumor diseases is also linked to nutrition; it even plays a greater role than smoking. Occasionally, pollutants can also be detected in food. Antibiotics in meat products, dioxins in eggs or heavy metals in fish are increasingly making headlines in the daily newspapers. Food, nutrition and human metabolism are therefore among the current focal points and key future topics for society. The production of new types of food as well as the diagnosis and therapy of nutritional diseases require a new quality of knowledge, with food science, medicine and nutritional science cooperating.
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