May 30, 2016 | soundbite-enews
Cracking the connection between goes and diet could lead to future heart disease treatments Understanding the complex interplay of heredity, diet and microbes may one day lead to diets that prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. According to a recent scientific...
April 30, 2016 | soundbite-enews
Study of Space Travelers Helps Explain Disease in the Earthbound Some inherited genetic mutations have obvious harmful effects, such as those associated with cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. Now, scientists are learning more about stress-induced effects of gene...
March 30, 2016 | soundbite-enews
Anti-Inflammatory Diet May Fight Breast Cancer Promising work is underway in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Hursting at the NRI to identify dietary interventions that can reduce the risk of cancer. Omega-3 fatty acids are well known anti-inflammatory dietary...
February 28, 2016 | soundbite-enews
March is National Nutrition Month National Nutrition Month is about focusing attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. At the Nutrition Research Institute, we study nutrigenetics to find out...
January 30, 2016 | soundbite-enews
Teen Cognition Improves with Choline The Zeisel laboratory at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) is well known for defining the importance of the nutrient choline in infant brain development. They discovered that choline in mother’s diet during pregnancy is...
November 30, 2015 | soundbite-enews, Soundbites
Appetite for Life Public Programing Mark Your Calendar The Nutrition Research Institute’s popular series of public programs, called Appetite for Life, resumes this January for a five-month run. Once each month, January through May, distinguished science...
