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Nutrition Science - Extended Interviews

Nutritional Science, one of the youngest sciences, draws upon chemistry, biology and the social sciences to understand complex relationships between human health and well-being. Also, food and lifestyle patterns, food and agricultural systems and institutional environments. Ten leading experts expand on these relationships.

Nutrition Science - Extended Interviews  
  • Carolyn Slupsky, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 25
    9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. Slupsky is an expert in the researching importance of the intestinal microbiota for good health. In particular she focuses on the microbiota in early stages of development to prevent chronic disease of old age.
  • Bruce German, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 25
    10:02 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. German is a leader in promoting how personalized dietary recommendations and precision nutritional understanding will transform our well-being, longevity and what it means to be human itself.
  • Haley Oliver, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 25
    10:36 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. Haley Oliver’s research is focused on the persistence, prevalence and transmission of foodborne pathogens in retail food systems and the development of intervention strategies to improve food safety from the field to the table.

 

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  • Wendy Dahl, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 18
    10:12 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. Dahl is an expert in the health benefits of fiber and probiotics. She is also an advocate of the benefits of personalized nutrition.
  • Connie Weaver, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 18
    9:48 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Professor Weaver’s career has been devoted to the study of the health benefits of calcium. She also specializes in findings pointing to the nature and health benefits of personalized nutrition which she believes is the future of good healthy eating, not popular diets.
  • Elaine Turner, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 18
    9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. Turner takes up some current nutrition debates including long and short-term dietary strategies, one-size-fits-all nutrition recommendations and finally the possibility of personalized nutrition.
  • Susan Percival, Ph.D
    Wednesday, December 11
    10:37 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Dr. Percival provides an overview of the history of nutritional study followed by some key milestones in the study of nutrition and health. Her research focuses on the future of personalized nutrition.