Open Access Opinion

Food and Nutrition Trends: Eternal Life or Our Extinction?

İsmail Hakkı Tekiner*

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey

Corresponding Author

Received Date: December 18, 2019; Published Date: January 13, 2020

Abstract

Four thousand years later, Gilgamesh’s story still tells us valuable things about meaning of life, our inescapable mortality, and fighting for eternal life. Since the end of the World War II, food industries and stakeholders have been writing again a contemporary Epic of Gilgamesh offering nutrition and health challenges as if alleged paradigm-shifting divinity.

Keywords: Food; Nutrition; Trend; Eternal life; Extinction; Health challenge; Paradigm; Paradox

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