Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
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March 5, 2020
What you need in your pantry for a coronavirus quarantine
Core faculty member Yona Sipos offers advice on what kinds of foods and beverages should you line your shelves with if there is a coronavirus quarantine.
March 4, 2020
Is it safe to dine out with coronavirus in our midst? As safe as it always is
Anne-Marie Gloster offers advice to the Tacoma News Tribune regarding safety of dining out in restaurants due to the coronavirus, and recommends restaurants take extra precautions to go above and beyond to make customers feel safe.
March 3, 2020
How to Stock Your Kitchen for the Coronovirus Era (and other emergencies)
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, 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
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?
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
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
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
The academic collaboration between Jennifer Otten and Branden Born is highlighted in The Whole U in a Faculty Friday feature.
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