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AFL@JWU Recipes – October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019 – Chef Megan Lambert, MS, RD, Senior Instructor in College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, prepared Healthy Fall Soups & Stews recipes while Sarah Hreyo of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, shared nutrition information on each recipe. The recipes from the October 15, 2019 Appetite For Life @ Johnson & Wales University program are available here for your cooking enjoyment!
September AFL Program Recap: “Good Bowls: A social venture to improve healthy food access”
September 25, 2019 – If you missed September’s Appetite for Life presentation by Alice Ammerman, DrPH, you can catch up. Watch the entire program on video now. The live presentation took place at the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Biotechnology Training Center in Kannapolis on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
December 2019
If food is medicine, why isn’t it taught at medical schools? November 14, 2019 – In a new report published by the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, researchers write that, on average, students in medical schools across the country spend less than 1 percent of...
November 2019
Saroja Voruganti, PhD, Promoted to Associate Professor October 22, 2019 – Saroja Voruganti, PhD, was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nutrition Research Institute...
October 2019
Choline must be integrated into the prenatal supplement regimen, says expert review September 16, 2019 – This article was published originally on nutraingredients-usa.com on September 11, 2019. By Stephen Daniels The importance of choline during the first 1,000 days...
Hursting moves into 16th year of Breast Cancer Research Foundation grant
September 17, 2019 – “Our work has evolved from asking Is obesity increasing cancer risk? and What are the mechanisms linking obesity and cancer?” he says. “We have largely answered the first question and are still working on the second, but our focus really has turned to What are we going to do about it?”
Choline must be integrated into the prenatal supplement regimen, says expert review
This article was published originally on nutraingredients-usa.com on September 11, 2019. By Stephen Daniels The importance of choline during the first 1,000 days after conception is increasingly understood by the medical community, and dietary supplement manufacturers...
Fish Oil Supplement Study
Study Purpose: to test for the effects of a fatty acid supplement in human heath. Recruiting: Healthy* males and females ages 30-80 for up to 12 weeks. *No smoking, substance abuse, pregnancy or breast feeding, history of diabetes, cholesterol medications, or...