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May 20, 2019<\/b> – Research findings presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019 explore possible reasons for obesity-related resistance to breast cancer treatment and possible strategies to overcome obesity-related immune suppression in cancer. <\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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May 20, 2019<\/b> \u2013 See where and learn how scientific discovery takes place by touring two facilities on the NC Research Campus in Kannapolis: the UNC Nutrition Research Institute and the NCSU Plants for Human Health Institute. Register for the June 20 tour today!<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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April 18, 2019<\/b> – How are we expected to make healthy choices about food when the headlines are so confusing? We all suffer whiplash when we read butter is bad, then butter is good; when red meat is bad, then red meat is good; when red wine is good, and then it is bad\u2026.so, what is the headline du jour? <\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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April 17, 2019<\/b> \u2013 Chef Megan Lambert, MS, RD, Senior Instructor in College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, prepared healthy, delightful One-Pan Wonders recipes while Steph Saullo, MS, RD of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, shared nutrition information on each recipe. The recipes from the April 17, 2019 Appetite For Life @ Johnson & Wales University program are available here for your cooking enjoyment!<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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April 17, 2019<\/b> \u2013 The science on food and nutrients and their relationship to health is complex. Individuals are unique and there are various factors that influence health outcomes. Researchers at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) are working very hard to understand the intricacies of diet and nutrients, and their relationship to disease prevention and progression with the goal that general dietary guidance will be replaced with personalized nutrition recommendations.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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March 22, 2019<\/b> – If you missed our March\u00a0Appetite for Life\u00a0presentation by Joanna Lampe, PhD, RD, you can catch up. Watch the entire program on\u00a0video now. The live presentation took place at Forty-Six in Kannapolis on Wednesday, March 13, 2019.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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March 22, 2019<\/b> – Sergey A. Krupenko, PhD, professor of nutrition at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research project, \u201cRegulation of Mitochondrial Function by Folate Enzyme ALDH1L2 in Health and Disease.\u201d Krupenko studies enzymes (molecules that catalyze reactions) that regulate folate metabolism. He joined the UNC faculty in 2014.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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February 25, 2019<\/b> – If you missed February\u2019s Appetite for Life presentation by Mary Ann Lila, PhD, you can catch up. Watch the entire program on video now. The live presentation took place at Forty-Six in Kannapolis on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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February 25, 2019<\/b> – Scientists have suggested many reasons why Americans have such difficulty maintaining a healthy diet, including an overabundance of unhealthy food, a low accessibility to healthy food, a lack of support from family and friends, and low financial stability. However, difficulty in sticking with a diet is not the only explanation for why many people cannot achieve their optimal health.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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February 11, 2019<\/b> – That Carol L. Cheatham, PhD was a scientist was clear to her family early on. At the age of 8 growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming, Cheatham conducted observational studies following the many farm cats around to find out (and diligently record in her notebook) where they would give birth. Once that got boring, she started trying to predict where the litters would be born based on her observations from the previous years.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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January 25, 2019<\/b> – As we at the NRI celebrate our tenth anniversary year, we are also taking measures to secure our longevity. Our world-class research facility on the North Carolina Research Campus opened in 2008 with the most advanced equipment, instrumentation, and laboratories available. Now, as we enter a second decade, administrators are evaluating our building, systems, and staffing to ensure that our scientists have the best infrastructure to allow them to continue their quest for new precision nutrition discoveries.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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January 25, 2019<\/b> – Pregnant women are often consumed by dietary choices such as finding a great prenatal vitamin, eating foods that will promote fetal growth, and doing everything they can to protect their pregnancy. After delivery, however, the mother\u2019s preoccupation with her diet often pauses for four to six months. The Cheatham Nutrition & Cognition Lab is turning this type of thinking on its head with the belief that what women eat while breastfeeding greatly impacts their breastmilk and ultimately, their children\u2019s development.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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January 11, 2019<\/b> – \u201cI\u2019ve been called \u2018tenacious\u2019,\u201d says Philip A. May, PhD, with a hint of humor. It\u2019s an understatement for the man who relentlessly pursues data that shed light on important public health issues across the United States and around the globe. May, professor of nutrition at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) and in the Department of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been a demographer and epidemiologist for the better part of 50 years. He calls his style of research \u201cshoe-leather\u201d epidemiology, meaning that he gathers information for studies by getting out in the field and immersing himself in communities to really know the people in his studies. For nearly 30 of those years, May\u2019s focus has been on learning about the often-dire effects and alarmingly high prevalence of fetal alcohol exposure.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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December 13, 2018<\/b> – Through the ages, science has often been in the company of poetry. They came together recently when Susan Sumner, PhD, described how she got her start in Biomarker Discovery using spectroscopic methods as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University (NCSU): \u201cI found it exciting to envision molecules dancing in multidimensional space in response to applied physical factors such as magnets, radio frequency pulses, or electric fields.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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December 17, 2018<\/b> – Philip A. May, PhD, has received the 2018 Mark Keller Award bestowed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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December 12, 2018<\/b> – If you\u2019ve ever been around a pregnant woman, you\u2019ve probably heard her mention something about food cravings. Or she\u2019s mentioned that she won\u2019t drink coffee or eat Oreos because they are \u201cbad for the baby.\u201d Food is a hot topic during pregnancy because of how it can drastically affect the developing baby. But how many times have you heard a woman mention that she is eating healthier because she is going to try to get pregnant?<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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December 12, 2018<\/b> – The importance of choline to brain development and function was first demonstrated in the 1980s, but because choline has multiple fates and functions within the body, the question of how choline levels specifically impacted neural development has remained unanswered. In research just published in The FASEB Journal, NRI director Steven Zeisel, MD PhD, and NRI assistant professor Natalia Surzenko, PhD, make a major contribution towards answering this question.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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November 20, 2018<\/b> – Nutrient availability regulates cell metabolism, growth, and survival. When nutrients are in short supply, cells can pause their growth or even eliminate themselves through a process known as programmed cell death, thereby protecting the health of the organism as a whole. If nutrient deprivation happens at certain critical periods, such as during the rapid growth of the embryonic brain, severe developmental consequences can arise (this is why proper maternal nutrition is so important). In contrast, harnessing the innate ability of cells to enter programmed cell death is an important strategy in cancer treatment.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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November 20, 2018<\/b> – There have been a lot of questions about the reliability of nutritional science. We should respond with an assertive statement: Nutrition is a hard science. By just about any comparison, much of what is known about nutrition and the methods that have built that knowledge is as robust as classical physics, biochemistry and other basic sciences generally recognized as rigorous.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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November 13, 2018<\/b> – From his lab in a textile mill-turned-food research center, a UNC scientist has brought an important nutrient to the world\u2019s attention. Dr. Steven Zeisel wants to make sure you\u2019re getting enough choline. In a state-of-the-art laboratory on the North Carolina Research Campus, in the unlikeliest of places in a former textile mill town, Zeisel is overseeing scientific experiments about a nutrient that could change the way we eat. <\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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October 17, 2018<\/b> \u2013 The science on food and nutrients and their relationship to health is complex. Individuals are unique and there are various factors that influence health outcomes. Researchers at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) are working very hard to understand the intricacies of diet and nutrients, and their relationship to disease prevention and progression with the goal that general dietary guidance will be replaced with personalized nutrition recommendations.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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October 17, 2018<\/b> \u2013 Chef Megan Lambert, MS, RD, Senior Instructor in College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, prepared healthy, delightful recipes with “Fun(ctional) Fall Flavors while Steph Saullo, MS, RD of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, shared nutrition information on each recipe. The recipes from the October 17, 2018 Appetite For Life @ Johnson & Wales University program are available here for your cooking enjoyment!<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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October 3, 2018<\/b> – UNC NRI’s and UNC Lineberger\u2019s Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH, along with Cornelia Ulrich, PhD, MS, the director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute\u2019s National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and colleagues, reviewed findings from research looking at the biological links between obesity and cancers of the colon, rectum, pancreas, liver, esophagus, gallbladder and stomach, as well as published studies on how diet, exercise, weight loss surgery, and other weight-related interventions may help reverse this connection.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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October 17, 2018<\/b> – Saroja Voruganti, PhD, has covered a lot of ground in her journey to becoming a faculty researcher in nutrition, genetics, and epidemiology at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute. Born into a traditional south Indian family, she grew up in Delhi in northern India where she graduated with an undergraduate degree in nutrition. Then she married and moved to western India. Even as she focused on marriage, home, and raising a family in the traditional Indian way of life, she kept alive her dream of pursuing advanced studies and contributing outside of family life.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":10}