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March 3, 2020

How to Stock Your Kitchen for the Coronovirus Era (and other emergencies)

Grocery bag filled with groceries

Yona Sipos, a core faculty member in the Nutritional Sciences Program, speaks with Epicurious offering advice on how to prepare your kitchen for a natural, climate-related or public health-related emergency.


February 21, 2020

Myths and facts about reheating your food in the microwave

Anne-Marie Gloster

Anne-Marie Gloster, core faculty in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program offered expert advice to debunk myths about safely reheating food in a microwave.


February 10, 2020

Increases in minimum wage may not have anticipated positive health effects, study shows

Pennies spilling out of a jar

Results of a new study from University of Washington Center of Public Health Nutrition finds that an increase in minimum wage really didn’t have a huge impact on health overall.


January 29, 2020

Are we doing diet and nutrition research wrong?

Cutting sweet potato

Public health researcher Dr. Ross Prentice from University of Washington Department of Biostatistics is interviewed by Fred Hutch about ways he is applying intake biomarkers to assess and improve studies of diet and chronic disease. In this interview, Prentice highlights a recent feeding study he conducted with Drs. Johanna Lampe and Marion Neuhouser, core faculty…


January 8, 2020

20 changes you need to make in your life in 2020

Photo of vegetables and grains in a plastic container

This article features a quote from Adam Drewnowski, director of the UW Nutritional Sciences Program and the Center for Public Health Nutrition offering advice to cook at home, rather than eating out, for a better diet at no significant cost increase.


December 20, 2019

As the planet warms, unusual crops could become climate saviors — if we’re willing to eat them

Sea bean

Eli Wheat, a core faculty member in the Nutritional Science Program and Program on the Environment at the University of Washington is quoted about how government food production subsidies in our nation do not allow free market forces to act.


December 5, 2019

How Washington keeps America sick and fat

Mario Kratz, an associate professor in epidemiology, medicine, and nutritional sciences at the UW is quoted about the cost-prohibitive factors with NIH grants which present barriers for securing adequate funding for well-controlled dietary studies. Kratz works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he studies dietary interventions and cancer prevention.


November 8, 2019

Faculty Friday features Jennifer Otten, Branden Born and Livable City Year

Jennifer Otten and Branden Born Livable City team

The academic collaboration between Jennifer Otten and Branden Born is highlighted in The Whole U in a Faculty Friday feature.


October 30, 2019

Keto, fat and cancer: It’s complicated

Marian Neuhouser and Mario Kratz, core faculty members with the UW Nutritional Sciences Program and researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are quoted in this article discussing evidence known so far about best diets for cancer treatment and health.


October 23, 2019

Health claims in nutrition books can be a ‘volcano of nonsense.’ A new website is fighting back.

Photo of nutrition books in bookstore

Dr. Mario Kratz, a faculty member in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program and a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is quoted in this article highlighting redpenreviews.org , a resource to help consumers verify if health nutrition books are scientifically accurate.



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