In fall 2018, researchers at the Food for Health Institute conducted a ‘Nutrition Tracking Study’ to explore how new technologies can be used to measure dietary intake and nutrition. The project team included Sara Schaefer, PhD (Principal Investigator), Sarah Dimitratos, RD (Registered Dietitian & PhD Student) and 25 research interns majoring in Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Science and Food Science & Technology.
FFHI scientists have found that mother's milk is not only nourishing to infants, but also protects them against pathogens and other invaders. This is because complex sugars found in breastmilk feed specific protective microbes that inhabit the infant gut. Now, this team has shown these same sugars can also be obtained from cow's milk.
FFHI researchers are part of an important paper in Cell, which offers novel approaches to address childhood malnutrition through nourishing gut microbes with milk compounds.
Bruce German, Director of the Foods for Health Institute, was among several faculty asked to predict the future of their particular fields of research and expertise in the new year.
UC Davis News reports on findings that fortified, lipid- or fat-based nutritional supplements provided during pregnancy to women in Bangladesh reduced stunting, abnormally low weight and small head size in babies born to these women, reports a team of University of California, Davis, researchers who led the international project.
Bruce German, Director of the Foods for Health Institute, explains the collaborative and shared vision of Davis and Dublin as leaders in food and health research.
2015 is the International Year of Soils and for the commemoration of World Food Day, the Sacramento Farm to Fork Speaker Series brought an author and medical doctor whose work unites these themes.
Steven Frese, a former postdoctoral researcher in the lab of David Mills, begins a new position in Research and Development with Evolve Biosystems in Davis, CA.
David Dallas leaves the Foods for Health Institute to accept a position as Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR.
A July feature on the UC Davis homepage highlighted the work of Foods for Health Institute researchers on how breast milk reveals 'clues' for human health.
Research on milk glycans is funded for a total of $6.9 million from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the National Cancer Institute.
