Challenge models: the path to health claims
Nutrition can help maintaining one’s health. Health can be assessed by looking at the body's ability to adapt to changing circumstances and to show sufficient resilience. This concept of ability to adapt to stressors, forms the basis of so-called challenge models.
NIZO challenge models assess the effect of foods and ingredients in healthy people by introducing controlled stressor. Nutrition can help maintaining one’s health. Health can be assessed by looking at the body's ability to adapt to changing circumstances and to show sufficient resilience. This concept of ability to adapt to stressors, forms the basis of so-called challenge models.