http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/ Latest Articles Web Feed from Health Sociology Review http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2272 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2273 Where does our food come from? The answer is from farms and fisheries, but as consumers in our developed urbanised society we know the reality is from a retail outlet. In other words; we shop. In my youth, shopping meant a trip on foot to a variety of small retailers, stocking post-war English commodities, some of which were rationed. I first saw a b 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2274 While there are numerous models for technology transfer into different industries, including licensing agreements, cooperative research and development (R&D) agreements between government laboratories and private companies, the formation of spin-off companies and other mechanisms, there is also a growing body of information that human factors and o 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2275 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2276 The term nutrigenomics refers to the effect of diet on gene expression. The term nutrigenetics refers to the impact of inherited traits on the response to a specific dietary pattern, functional food or supplement on a specific health outcome. The specific fields of genome health nutrigenomics and genome health nutrigenetics are emerging as important 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2277 Human beings are not created equal, at least in terms of nutritional needs. Nutritional needs are dictated by a mixture of genetics, epigenetics, personal history and lifestyle. Obvious cases of genetically-based or genetically-predisposed special nutritional needs are well known; insulin-dependent (Type 1) diabetes mellitus and phenylketonuria being good 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2287 For many consumers, health is a key factor in determining their food choices. As well as simply providing nutrition, it is now being recognised that the consumption of certain foods can promote improved health and well-being. The market for these functional food products is estimated to be worth US$60 billion per annum, and is growing rapidly. This o 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2285 The food industry is as old as civilization; and many of its process operations are thousands of years old, such as brewing (developed in Sumeria and Babylon) and baking (developed in Egypt ca. 8000 BC). The modern food manufacturing industry evolved during and after the Industrial Revolution; Thorne (1986) attributes the beginnings of the industry to 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2286 An innovation’s success is dependent upon successfully responding to consumer needs and communicating benefits in a believable persuasive manner. Consumers respond to good taste, convenience, and health enhancing properties. The magnitude of any risk the innovation or technology imposes including impact on the environment is also of concern 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/10/issue/1/article/2288 Magazines are hardly the dominant determinant of consumer perceptions related to innovations in the food supply but for millions of people they do indeed contribute to the big picture within which your neighbors decide what to eat. This paper draws primarily from articles selected, during the three years preceding October 2007, for inclusion in the m 2008-07-01 00:00:00