Agile Study
This study is researching innovative ways to promote healthy eating and physical activity in young adults using a smartphone app and digital health tools.
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We’re looking for a mural artist
The City of Kannapolis and the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, as lead partners in a NC Research Campus collaboration for the NC Science Festival, are issuing a Call for Design Proposals. North Carolina artists (high school age and beyond) are invited to submit a...Appetite for Life: Better Health Outcomes, Survey
New Optimism for Breaking the Obesity-Cancer Link
by Violet Kiesel, PhD Obesity is a major problem. Having obesity increases risk of developing serious chronic diseases like cancer, which can reduce quality of life and lifespan. This risk becomes more striking when considering the growing number of people who are...
Precision nutrition improves health at individual level, expert says
Susan Sumner, PhD, is a professor of Nutrition and pharmacology at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute. Using state-of-the-art metabolomics and exposome technologies, Sumner’s team determines how molecules that are present in our tissues and biological fluids are...