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Members of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health weigh in on children’s candy binge on Halloween vs. the big picture of the value of every day healthy eating. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Nutritional Sciences
Professor Joshua Miller’s Study Finds Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Dementia
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on NJ.com; the study can be found in JAMA-Neurology. Joshua Miller, professor of nutritional science at Rutgers University, was the lead author in one of the more important studies so far linking vitamin D deficiency to cognitive loss. He and colleagues at the University of California-Davis looked at 382 adults […]
NJAES Faculty Working on African Horticulture Project to Enhance Nutrition for At-Risk Individuals
Rutgers NJAES faculty in the fields of agriculture and human nutrition are working together on an international development project that combines these disciplines to strengthen the linkage between increased production and consumption of fresh vegetables with improved human health and nutrition. Principal investigator Jim Simon, distinguished professor of plant biology, with co-principal investigators Dan Hoffman, […]
IFNH’s Peggy Policastro and Sue Shapses of the Rutgers New Jersey Obesity Group Weigh in on New Jersey’s Obesity Epidemic
One quarter of all New Jersey residents are facing a health problem so severe, it’s been deemed an epidemic — obesity. It seems it’s not just the population that’s growing in the Garden State, but our waist size too. A new report, called The State of Obesity issued by the Trust for America’s Health and […]
Sarah Waxman (SEBS’16) Designed a Planner to Organize Her Life…and Yours!
SEBS own Sarah Waxman (SEBS’16) has a gift for fellow students! This triple major grad designed an incredible planner to organize her very busy life while she was here and it’s almost ready to be released. Along with her triple major—Food Science Research, Nutritional Science and Biology—she was also an Aresty Research Fellow and resident […]
Dietetics Faculty and Students Have Had an Amazing Year!
The faculty and students associated with Dietetics, one of the options in the Nutritional Sciences Program at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, have had an amazing year! Peggy Policastro, nutritionist at Rutgers Dining Services and director of Behavioral Nutrition and the Student Ambassador Program was selected to receive the Mary Abbott Hess Award […]
Christopher Gunning Recognized as the 2016 Emerging Dietetic Leader for the State of New Jersey
Christopher Gunning, RDN, was recognized as the 2016 Emerging Dietetic Leader for the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey Dietetic Association (NJDA) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at NJDA’s 84th Annual Meeting on May 6. This award recognizes the competence and activities of members, regardless of their age, who are at […]
The New Jersey Dietetic Association awards Barbara Tangel its Highest Honor
Barbara Tangel, director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, received the Carolyn Sebastianelli Distinguished Member Award at the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Dietetic Association (NJDA). The award, the highest given by the NJDA, honors a member who has been a role model, demonstrating commitment to the nutritional […]
