Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
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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.
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.
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.
Hands on with the latest prostate cancer research
Dr. Marian Neuhouser, a Fred Hutch nutritional epidemiologist and core faculty member in UW Nutritional Sciences highlights the importance of a healthy diet in lowering the risk of cancer, including prostate cancer.
Impetus builds to change status quo for sugary-drink sales
Jim Krieger, a Health Services faculty member and CPHN collaborator is featured in this story about two new recently-funded studies he will help conduct that examine the effect of taxing sugary drinks, and testing counter-marketing and healthy-beverage social media messages among parents of Latinx children age 0-5.
Study points to grocery store gap, inequity in access to healthy foods in the Seattle area
Seattle neighborhoods that are lower income or that have more Black or Hispanic residents have fewer options for healthy foods, more fast food and longer travel times to stores that sell produce, according to a new study by the University of Washington School of Public Health and Public Health – Seattle & King County, in Washington.
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