Functional foods

A healthy lifestyle (including a healthy diet), that would enable the onset of
chronic conditions such as diabetes, elevated blood pressure or cholesterol either
to be postponed or even prevented, has very much been a focus of public discussion
for some time now. The alarmingly rapid increase in the incidence of obesity,
already today called an ‘epidemic’, raises concerns and the trend of increasing
obesity together with metabolic syndrome in children and young adults is
especially worrying. Since the elderly populations of Western countries are
increasing, we are in addition facing the threat that people will live longer, but that
they will also be in less good health, which naturally reduces quality of life.