http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/4987 1599-2039 2026-04-08T21:39:25Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5031 Title: Vitamin D: Nutrition Information Brief 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5030 Title: Intake of Nuts or Nut Products and Weight Gain 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5029 Title: Synergizing Mouse and Human Studies to Understand the Heterogeneity of Obesity Authors: Gordon-Larsen, Penny; French, John E; Moustaid-Moussa, Naima; Voruganti, Venkata S; Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J; Bizon, Christopher A; Cheng, Zhiyong; Stewart, Delisha A; Easterbrook, John W; Shaikh, Saame Raza Abstract: Obesity is routinely considered as a single disease state, which drives a “one-size-fits-all”approach to treatment.We recently convened the first annual University of North Carolina Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium to discuss the heterogeneity of obesity and the need for translational science to advance understanding of this heterogeneity. The symposium aimed to advance scientific rigor in translational studies from animal to human models with the goal of identifying underlying mechanisms and treatments. In this review, we discuss fundamental gaps in knowledge of the heterogeneity of obesity ranging from cellular to population perspectives. We also advocate approaches to overcoming limitations in the field. Examples include the use of contemporary mouse genetic reference population models such as the Collaborative Cross and Diversity Outbred mice that effectively model human genetic diversity and the use of translational models that integrate -omics and computational approaches from preclinical to clinical models of obesity. Finally, we suggest best scientific practices to ensure strong rigor that will allow investigators to delineate the sources of heterogeneity in the population with obesity. Collectively,we propose that it is critical to think of obesity as a heterogeneous diseasewith complex mechanisms and etiologies, requiring unique prevention and treatment strategies tailored to the individual 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5028 Title: Toward a Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Campus Food Environment: A Scoping Review of Postsecondary Food Interventions Authors: Lee, Kirsten M; Dias, Goretty M; Boluk, Karla; Scott, Steffanie; Chang, Yi-Shin; Williams, Tabitha E; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I Abstract: Interventions are urgently needed to transform the food system and shift population eating patterns toward those consistent with human health and environmental sustainability. Postsecondary campuses offer a naturalistic setting to trial interventions to improve the health of students and provide insight into interventions that could be scaled up in other settings. However, the current state of the evidence on interventions to support healthy and environmentally sustainable eating within postsecondary settings is not well understood. A scoping review of food- and nutrition related interventions implemented and evaluated on postsecondary campuses was conducted to determine the extent to which they integrate considerations related to human health and/or environmental sustainability, as well as to synthesize the nature and effectiveness of interventions and to identify knowledge gaps in the literature. MEDLINE (via PubMed), CINAHL, Scopus, and ERIC were searched to identify articles describing naturalistic campus food interventions published in English from January 2015 to December 2019. Data were extracted from 38 peer-reviewed articles, representing 37 unique interventions, and synthesized according to policy domains within the World Cancer Research Foundation’s NOURISHING framework. Most interventions were focused on supporting human health, whereas considerations related to environmental sustainability were minimal. Interventions to support human health primarily sought to increase nutrition knowledge or to make complementary shifts in food environments, such as through nutrition labeling at point of purchase. Interventions to support environmental sustainability often focused on reducing food waste and few emphasized consumption patterns with lower environmental impacts. The implementation of integrated approaches considering the complexity and interconnectivity of human and planetary health is needed. Such approaches must go beyond the individual to alter the structural determinants that shape our food system and eating patterns 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z