The Nutrition for Gut Health Committee advances and communicates the scientific understanding of the impact of diet and dietary constituents on gut and host health.
(This Committee represents the evolution of the Gut Microbiome Committee.)
Strategic Focus Area
- Advance shared definitions and approaches to measurement of gut health and gut microbiome across stakeholders.
- Evaluate and advance the evidence for nutrition support of optimal gut and host health.
- Communicate the evidence that underpins how diets and dietary constituents impact measures of gut health and other systems influenced by gut physiology.
- Through the Live Dietary Microbes Subcommittee, gather, develop, and drive science- and evidence-based decisions on dietary recommendations for live microbes (learn more here). See news story about the promise of research on dietary microbes for health.
Current Work
This committee has various work underway:
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Abbott Nutrition
General Mills
Mondelēz International
National Dairy Council
ACADEMIC ADVISORS
Marla Cunningham, MS, ISAPP
Wendy A. Henderson, PhD, CRNP, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Johanna Lampe, PhD, RD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Gary D. Wu, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
GOVERNMENT ADVISORS
Cindy Davis, PhD, USDA, ARS
Lauren VieBrock, PhD, US FDA
William Yan, PhD, Health Canada (Retired)
Projects Supported by the Committee:
Publications
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Workshop Report: Toward the Development of a Human Whole Stool Reference Material for Metabolomic and Metagenomic Gut Microbiome Measurements
Metabolomics, 2020
The Impact of Live Dietary Microbes on Health: A Scoping Review
Journal of Food Science, 2024
A systematic approach to collect, peruse, and summarize the available information relating to the potential benefits of consuming dietary microbes was pursued in this scoping review.
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Methods in Nutrition & Gut Microbiome Research: An American Society for Nutrition Satellite Session
Nutrients, 2023
The microbial cells in the human gut form an ecosystem that regulates and maintains human health. IAFNS has joined the American Society for Nutrition in an effort to harmonize approaches to studying the gut microbiome to better explore these connections. The scientific session summarized how improving the accuracy, precision and comparability of microbiome research will build understanding of the associations between the microbiome, health and disease prevention.
Mapping the Available Evidence on the Impact of Ingested Live Microbes on Health: A Scoping Review Protocol
BMJ Open, 2023
Some researchers think that the regular consumption of safe, live microbes confers health-promoting attributes, including the prevention of disease. To address this hypothesis, we propose a scoping review to assess the large amount of scientific literature that is now available on this topic.
Global Regulatory Frameworks for Fermented Foods: A Review
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
The review provides important perspective and context in relation to current global fermented food regulatory practices with possible directions and recommendations for future legislative efforts.
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Events
Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease
November 19, 2024
Virtual, Event
Join IAFNS as we learn about the latest research in this area underway at the Weizmann Institute, under the direction of Dr. Eran Elinav.
Read more about Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease