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Savor Summer: Healthy Picnic Recipes for Outdoor Adventures
With summer in full swing, it’s the perfect time to get outdoors and enjoy nature. What better way to do that than by enjoying a picnic? Making your own picnic offers a healthy alternative to takeout during busy summer months, and provides an opportunity to enjoy...
Rachel W. Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW, Promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work
Rachel W. Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW has been promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her promotion also encompasses her work at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) where Goode’s...
Grant Award Fuels NRI Postdoc’s Mission to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Paola Campos, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Goode Lab at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, has been awarded a grant from SPLENDOR-NC (Supporting, Promoting, and Launching the Expansion of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity Researchers in North...
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Our vision is to use scientific discovery to ensure optimal health through individualized nutrition. To do this, we need your help! Many of our research studies rely on volunteers to help us learn how nutrition science works in differing people. Read through the opportunities to learn more here.
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The NRI is a center for precision nutrition training through programs for graduate and medical students, post-doctoral trainees, faculty, practicing physicians and other medical providers, registered dietitians, and industry professionals.
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By donating to the Nutrition Research Institute, your money targets the root of most American disease. Our scientists focus on how our genes respond to food so that soon medical practitioners will be able to guide people in their health from childhood through old age. Our critical research depends on the generosity of people like you.
