January 27, 2023 | Machine Learning
Missed our most recent Appetite for Life: Nutrition Trivia? You can still test your nutrition knowledge with the quiz below! Thank you to our nutrition experts who put these questions together. Angela Clontz, MS Angela is a doctoral student in the Hursting and...
January 12, 2023 | News, News Rushing, Ximena News
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) offers annual pilot and feasibility awards to support the development of innovative research in nutrition and obesity at UNC-Chapel Hill. P&F awards enable researchers to collect preliminary data that support a...
November 10, 2022 | Goode News, News
by Anissa Durham This article originally appeared on Word in Black. People of color, especially Black Americans, are significantly less likely to receive help for eating issues, despite suffering from them as much as white people. Eating disorders have a complicated...
November 4, 2022 | Hursting News, News
Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH, Director of the Nutrition Research Institute and Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, was awarded the American Institute for Cancer Research’s (AICR) Distinguished Service Award on November 2 at the 2022 AICR...
October 20, 2022 | News, Voruganti News
By Alyssa LaFaro Endeavors Saroja Voruganti likes sugar. But she loves talking about it. “Did you know the body does not need any added sugars for healthy functioning? Most of our foods contain naturally occurring sugars,” she says. Men should consume no more...
September 23, 2022 | Goode News, News
Rachel Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW joins the UNC Nutrition Research Institute as a full-time faculty member, transitioning from a visiting fellow. SEEKING EQUITABLE INTERVENTIONS FOR EATING DISORDERS AND NON-DIET WEIGHT MANAGMENT For 10 years, Rachel Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW,...
September 2, 2022 | News, Voruganti News
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – September 2, 2022 – The UNC Nutrition Research Institute is pleased to announce that its laboratory directed by Saroja Voruganti, PhD, has been granted a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification, allowing its lab to conduct...
June 22, 2022 | Mooney News, News, pub-mooney, pub-smith, publications, Smith News
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) encompass a range of behavioral, cognitive, and physiological impairments that result from prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). FASD is usually diagnosed in early childhood, but while these impairments persist into adulthood,...
