‘The Nutrition Report 2008 – Summary’ is a very short version of the 11th Nutrition Report published by the German Nutrition Society. Within 7 chapters you will find substantial informations about the nutritional situation in Germany, a review of the prevalence of pre-obesity and obesity in Germany, and a description of nutritional problems of the Elderly in German Nursing Homes. Aspects of food safety are always of broad public interest and so we continue to describe toxicological and microbiological aspects. A brand new point of interest is a relatively new area of research that focuses on the early pathogenesis of diseases that occur later in life called ‘Perinatal programming’. Following up the Nutrition Report 2004 and the report of the World Cancer Research Fund in 2007, a systematic analysis of the relationship between nutrition and carcinogenesis was pursued.
