The American Society for Nutrition has awarded CPHHS Nutrition Professor Maret Traber the 2013 Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Nutritional Sciences Award.
Category: Nutrition
Nutrition and Dietetics Club students and Student Health Services hosted a Nutrition Flash Mob Thursday, April 25 at the Memorial Union quad in order to raise awareness about healthy eating on campus.
Nutrition and Public Health Associate Professor Norm Hord is studying the ability of plant foods called nitrates and nitrites to influence metabolism and signaling mechanisms related to cardiovascular function.
Despite concerns that have been expressed about possible health risks from high intake of vitamin E, a new review concludes that biological mechanisms exist to routinely eliminate excess levels of the vitamin, and they make it almost impossible to take a harmful amount.
Oregon State University has received a grant of nearly $5 million to develop an obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle program for teenagers. Unlike many programs that focus on treatment of children already at risk of obesity, this new program will aim at active high school-age teens involved in 4-H soccer programs in Oregon.
As part of National Nutrition Month, College of Public Health and Human Sciences’ Nutrition and Dietetics Club, in partnership with Be Well at OSU, hosted events out on the Memorial Union quad March 5 and 6.