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Empowering health through nutrition

Empowering health through nutrition

This article originally appeared in Carolina Public Health Magazine. Just shy of two hours away from Chapel Hill, the former textile town of Kannapolis is home to a state-of-the-art research center where Gillings School faculty, along with colleagues from across UNC,...

Transform Your Meals with the Diabetes Plate Method

Transform Your Meals with the Diabetes Plate Method

Watch the video below. Managing diabetes can often be a complex and demanding process, involving intricate carb counting and strict diet monitoring. What if there was an easier way to manage diabetes that didn’t involve these demanding steps? The Diabetes Plate...

2024 NGx Recap Video

2024 NGx Recap Video

The 2024 NGx: Nutrigenomics and Precision Nutrition in Clinical Practice short course has wrapped. During the course, we delved into the cutting-edge world of nutrigenomics and precision nutrition, bringing together researchers and practitioners from...

Pregnant Women Health Study

Pregnant Women Health Study

The purpose of this study is to understand how genetic and lifestyle factors affect nutrient metabolism, particularly glycine, purine and folate metabolism, in pregnancy.