Vitamins and Healthy Diet
Dr. Natalia Krupenko addresses vitamin supplementation and its effects on the human body.
Choline in Health and Disease in Vitamins in the Prevention of Health Disease
Teng, Y-W, Zeisel, S.H. (2010) Choline in health and disease In Vitamins for the Prevention of Human Disease, Edited by W. Herrmann, R. Obeid, Walter De Gruyter GMBH & Co, Berlin, Germany. 599-612.
Choline: An Essential Nutrient
Makes Babies Smarter, Keeps Memory Keen and Prevents Disease, Yet Most Americans Are Missing Out
Choline was discovered in 1862, but scientists did not fully understand its importance—or what foods contained it—for another 136 years. They thought we could make our own choline, much like we make Vitamin D from sunlight and cholesterol, but only women who still produce estrogen can make enough choline—and only if they have the right genes. Forty-five percent of child-bearing women have a genetic variation called a SNP (pronounced “snip”) that prevents them from turning estrogen into choline.
Cooking Demo + Nutrition Talk: Fitting the Fall Season into Your Rainbow Diet
work Fitting the Fall Season into Your Rainbow Diet September 2023 • Cooking Demo + Nutrition Talk RECIPES Appetizer: Butternut Squash Salad Rolls and Maple Orange Sauce Entree: Creamy White Stone Grits, Roasted Vegetables, Mushroom Jus Dessert: Apple Upside-Down Cake...
Just the Facts
This story originally appeared on the UNC Gillings School of Public Health website. by George Spencer illustrations by Haley Hodges ’19 Andy Warhol never met William Hubbard or Jerry Mande, MPH ’83 (nutrition). But the pop artist who turned soup can labels into art...
Dr. Martin Kohlmeier sees what molecules mean for whole people
This article is a reprint from The Pivot. WHAT’S YOUR ROLE IN PUBLIC HEALTH? I am a professor of nutrition and principal investigator at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis, North Carolina. CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR FOCUS AREA IN ONE SENTENCE? I work on...
Precision Nutrition: Understanding Metabolic Heterogeneity
Variation in how individuals metabolize nutrients (i.e., metabolic heterogeneity) influences our nutritional requirements, so the ideal diet for one person may be different from the ideal diet for some one else. The scientific area of study that encompasses metabolic...
AFL with a Twist @ Nutrition Notes
October 21, 2020 – Chef Megan Lambert, MS, RD, Senior Instructor in College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, prepared Immunity Boosting Recipes while Sarah Hreyo of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, shared nutrition information on each recipe. The nutrition notes from the October 21, 2020 Appetite For Life with a Twist online @ Johnson & Wales University program are available here for your better health!