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Nutrition
Do athletes need to take food supplements to reach the top of their game? Twenty years ago, many scientists claimed that biochemistry and nutrition would boost performance in sport. The promising results of hundreds of studies and an avalanche of new food supplements seemed to prove them right.
Nutrition
Despite positive developments in reducing undernutrition over the last decade, today one in nine people – 805 million worldwide – still goes to bed hungry every night (1). At the same time, an estimated two billion people are affected by “hidden hunger”, or micronutrient deficiency, which is the lack of essential vitamins and minerals required in small amounts by the body.
At the Museum
The gap between what scientists say and what people believe is especially large when it comes to food. But opinions change as quickly as fashions. Ideas about what is good and what is bad for us are likely to be quite different tomorrow.
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