Conference paper

Publication year: 2003

Pages: 514S-516S

Journal: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volume number: 78

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0002-9165

eISSN: 1938-3207

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/78.3.514S

Conference: 4th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The reductionist approach has traditionally been. and continues today as the dominant approach in nutrition research. This means that parts of diet rather than the whole, or single food components rather than food habits, are studied. Even though much progress has been made with this approach, the relationship between diet and health is not yet fully understood. With the recognition about the whole being more than the sum of its parts, the limitations on the applicability of the reductionist approach, and the growing knowledge about parts of diet, another epistemological approach, such as holism, and new research strategies, such as transdisciplinarity, are needed to reveal more about the relationship between diet and health.

Harvard Citation style: Hoffmann, I. (2003) Transcending reductionism in nutrition research, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 78(3), pp. 514S-516S. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/78.3.514S

APA Citation style: Hoffmann, I. (2003). Transcending reductionism in nutrition research. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 78(3), 514S-516S. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/78.3.514S