March 9, 2022 | News, news-goode
Are you in tune with your internal signals of hunger and fullness? More often than not, we are not in sync with our body’s cues for appetite regulation. Instead, we seek out food in response to an emotional trigger, such as stress or boredom, or because something in...
January 27, 2022 | Kohlmeier News, Meyer News, News, News Rushing, news-sumner
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., January 27, 2022 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $19.2 million 5-year grant, pending the availability of funds, to a consortium of North Carolina university researchers who will apply cutting-edge analytical techniques to...
July 8, 2021 | News, news-sumner, Pathmasiri News
Published on The Gillings School of Global Public Health website May 19, 2021. Research has shown that using illicit drugs, including opiates and opioids, can disrupt a person’s metabolism and impact neurological and behavioral function. Experts at the UNC Gillings...
January 21, 2021 | News, News-Voru, Trujillo News, Zeisel News
UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) researchers were invited participants in the virtual Precision Nutrition: Research Gaps and Opportunities Workshop held by the National Institutes of Health (co-sponsors: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),...
October 16, 2020 | News, News Rushing, news-sumner
The Nutrition Research Institute is home to accomplished research scientists with expertise in a range of fields, including nutrition, genetics, biochemistry, neuroscience, epidemiology, toxicology, psychology, and medicine. Separately and together they are breaking...
September 23, 2020 | News
This article was published originally by UNC-Chapel Hill in Health and Medicine on Wednesday, August 26th, 2020. A review of COVID-19 studies reveals a troubling connection between two health crises: coronavirus and obesity. From COVID-19 risk to recovery, the odds...