Current dietary patterns are suboptimal and unsustainable. Across the lifespan, we pursue basic, epidemiological, methodological, and interventional research to understand what and how people should eat to stay healthy. We focus on chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, which are linked to poor diets and physical inactivity, and use novel methods to discover how nutrition and other lifestyle patterns influence the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations. Our innovative work in disciplines like precision nutrition helps uncover how these relationships change over time or vary across individuals and critical life stages such as pregnancy, infancy, and older adulthood. Importantly, the insights generated inform dietary recommendations, domestically and worldwide, provide the foundation for interventions to improve health and wellbeing for all.
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From the lab to Capitol Hill we're advancing trusted science and working with communities to translate research into practical evidence-based healthy outcomes for everyone.
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