HNRCA Launches National Center for Precision Health
The $8.23 million NIH grant will support an innovative personalized health study to predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns
The Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory conducts studies aimed at the identification, evaluation, and understanding of nutritional and physical activity interventions that possess anabolic properties in skeletal muscle and have the potential to prevent or reverse impaired motor performance and/or physical dysfunction in older adults.
The $8.23 million NIH grant will support an innovative personalized health study to predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns
Study identifies differences in gut microbiome composition in physically high-functioning vs low-functioning older adults, successfully transfers some of these effects into mice
What can you do with a Ph.D.? Some pretty amazing things, from running a lab to heading an international hunger-relief program.
These nine rising stars—some with Tufts doctorates, some with roles at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts, some with both—are making their mark as scientists, teachers, and leaders in their fields. And don’t just take our word for it: The National Institutes of Health awarded career-development grants to all four of the HNRCA scientists here, a testament to their promise as nutrition researchers.
Older adults who add 48 minutes of moderate physical activity per week can lower their chances for major mobility disability
Baby boomers will face many barriers to good nutrition as they age. It’s time to get prepared.
Three students in Friedman's Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition graduate program, as well as three HNRCA-affiliated Friedman professors received honors at this year's Experimental Biology meeting.
People in their 70s can likely lower their risk of stroke and heart attack with regular moderate exercise such as walking, according to a Tufts study, which provides some of the first evidence that continuing to exercise as we age really does make a difference.
The cause of nearly a third of all deaths, cardiovascular disease is the number-one killer worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, more than a third of all adults have some form of the disease, including about half of people over age 60.
Dr. Fielding is Director and Senior Scientist of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He is also Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Lecturer of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Currently, he also serves as the Associate Director of the Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
Sara Folta's research interests focus on public health nutrition, or the utilization of community-based strategies for improving dietary intake, physical activity, and body composition. She has particular expertise in behavioral psychology, communications, and qualitative methods. A major line of Folta's research involves community-based interventions to improve heart health among women. A second area of research includes behavioral strategies to improve health and well-being among older adults, particularly through the development of physical activity interventions.