News & Events
News & Events
Celebrating healthy eating in March
February 26, 2020
National Nutrition Month March is National Nutrition Month® — a time to focus on making healthy food choices. The Nutritional Sciences Program will celebrate this annual observance throughout the month of March featuring experts in our RDN training program. In response to this year’s theme, “Eat Right, Bite by Bite,” we asked program faculty, student...
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Myths and facts about reheating your food in the microwave
February 21, 2020 | KING 5 News
Anne-Marie Gloster, core faculty in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program offered expert advice to debunk myths about safely reheating food in a microwave.
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Increases in minimum wage may not have anticipated positive health effects, study shows
February 10, 2020 | UW News
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.
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Are we doing diet and nutrition research wrong?
January 28, 2020 | Fred Hutch
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 members in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, in which they used intake biomarkers derived from blood micronutrients and participant characteristics obtained from the Women’s Health Study.
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Undergraduate student scholarships for 2019-2020
January 14, 2020
Scholarship recipients for the 2019-20 academic year are recognized for academic achievement, dedication to community service and extracurricular activities, professional promise, and their ability to overcome challenges. These awards prioritize support of students from diverse backgrounds and those who have overcome economic and educational disadvantages and/or personal adversity to pursue higher education. The scholarships are...
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20 changes you need to make in your life in 2020
January 7, 2020 | Insider
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.
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As the planet warms, unusual crops could become climate saviors — if we’re willing to eat them
December 20, 2019 | Ensia
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.
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4-Week Study Abroad Program Explores Food Systems in Italy
December 11, 2019
Announcing a 4-week intensive, interdisciplinary program that uses systems thinking and a variety of perspectives to understand how factors, such as culture, policy, diet, and market structure, interact to create environmental, economic, health, and social/equity outcomes. La Dolce Vita: Comparative Food Systems in Italy begins with farm stays in Tuscany – a farm in the...
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Faculty Friday features Jennifer Otten, Branden Born and Livable City Year
November 8, 2019 | The Whole U
The academic collaboration between Jennifer Otten and Branden Born is highlighted in The Whole U in a Faculty Friday feature.
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How Washington keeps America sick and fat
November 4, 2019 | Politico
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.
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