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Finding Crucial Answers to 21st Century Health Issues

The impact of nutrition on health and disease is becoming increasingly complex and important. Questions related to the impact of nutrients on everything from genetics to whole body metabolism continue to multiply, especially as obesity and associated chronic diseases become increasingly pervasive in industrialized societies.

The Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences at the University of Kentucky is an ideal setting to study these multifaceted issues. The Center offers an interdisciplinary program led by nationally renowned faculty that provides a high-quality educational experience across a wide spectrum of nutrition-related subjects.

Primary research and training areas target obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Other areas of specialty include nutrition and oxidative stress, nutrition and aging, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition and food science.


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Dr. Lisa Cassis

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Mission

The mission of the Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences is to train highly skilled nutritional scientists equipped to tackle critical nutrition-related disease and health issues and pursue promising careers in the rapidly expanding nutritional sciences field.


NutrificNews GCNS Newsletter

The Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences (GCNS) at the University of Kentucky is happy to announce the publication of its first issue of NutrificNews, a newsletter highlighting current topics in nutrition.  This one-page glance is intended to condense/review recent articles, research or special interest information related to nutrition.

The December 2009 issue of NutrificNews offers some useful information about the nutritional benefits of Vitamin D.

Get the latest nutritional news headlines from New York Times on our news page. Click here.

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