Healthy Cooking for the Holidays: Recipes

November 16, 2016 • Appetite for Life is a series of community programs produced by the NRI brings the latest nutrition science research down to earth in educational and interactive lectures, demonstrations and events. NRI and JWU collaborated to bring the Cooking for Nourishment Demo, Healthy Cooking for the Holidays. See the recipes here.

Mom’s Diet Can Affect Development of Next Two Generations

November 17, 2016 • Nutritional deficiencies during pregnancy can have lasting effects across generations that impact development not only of children, but also of grandchildren. These heritable effects are linked to epigenetic changes that affect gene expression but not DNA sequence. At the NRI, we seek to understand how nutrition affects health and why different people respond differently to the same nutrients.

Nutrition Research Institute Shows Choline is Essential to a Normal Diet

November 1, 2016 • Though it’s present in a variety of foods and an essential part of a person’s diet, many people may not have heard of the nutrient choline.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Nutrition Research Institute, located at the NC Research Campus in Kannapolis, have studied the impact that diets lacking in choline could have on everything from liver and muscle tissue to brain development.

November 2015

November 1, 2015 • In this edition of our monthly e-news learn why researchers say no drinking when pregnant, is life expectancy a good measure of health and congratulate Dr. Hursting on his latest award.