158 One Health: An interdisciplinary approach to improving health and nutrition of companion animals.

Abstract One Health is a collaborative, holistic, interdisciplinary approach to optimize the health of all living things and the environment, recognizing interconnection and interdependency between humans, animals, plants, and the shared environment at local, regional, national, and global levels. It aims to prevent and control disease, address food safety concerns, protect ecosystems, and promote sustainable development. Hippocrates is quoted, perhaps incorrectly, with, “let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine”. Nutrition should improve the health of companion animals by, in part, preventing disease, minimizing the health impact of disease, and treating disease. From a One Health perspective, companion animals share ingredients, foods, and environments with humans. Veterinary nutritionists often say “it’s nutrients and not ingredients”; however, Monteiro stated “the most important factor now when considering food, nutrition, and public health is not nutrients or foods themselves but rather what is done to foodstuffs and the nutrients originally contained in them before they are purchased and consumed. The issue is food processing – specifically, the nature, extent, and purpose of processing, and its effects on food and human health.” This presentation aims to briefly discuss the role of ingredients, food processing, and advanced glycation end products and their roles in health and disease in humans and companion animals.