


February AFL Program Recap: “Food and Nutrition Myths That Never Go Away: Time to Debunk Them”
February 26, 2020 – If you missed February’s Appetite for Life Presentation by Cecilia Kwan, PhD, RD, you can catch up. Click through to this post and watch the entire program on video. The live presentation took place at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Kannapolis on Thursday, February 19, 2020.

Precision (Personalized) Nutrition: Understanding Metabolic Heterogeneity
February 24, 2020 -People differ in their requirements for and responses to nutrients and bioactive molecules in the diet. Many inputs contribute to metabolic heterogeneity (including variations in genetics, epigenetics, microbiome, lifestyle, diet intake, and environmental exposure).

January AFL Program Recap: “Genes and Individual Response to Nutrients in Bone Health”
January 22, 2020 – If you missed January’s Appetite for Life presentation by Saroja Voruganti, PhD, you can catch up. Click through to this post and watch the entire program on video. The live presentation took place at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Kannapolis on Thursday, January 16, 2020.

Nutrition for Dancers @ Piedmont School of Music & Dance
January 22, 2020 – Kaylee Helfrich, a doctoral graduate student in the Smith Lab at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute as well as an accomplished dancer, gave a program on nutrition for dancers at the Piedmont School of Music and Dance in Kannapolis. The recipes from this program are available here for your cooking enjoyment!

Early-Life Predictors of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
January 22, 2020 – The clinical teams at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute and in South Africa led by principal investigator Philip A. May, PhD have published findings of a decade-long effort to drive down the age at which the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) can be made in affected children. The paper, “Early-Life Predictors of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders” is published in Pediatrics.