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Resources and programs to foster interdisciplinary basic, clinical, public health research related to nutritional sciences and/or obesity.

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• Mary Evans, Ph.D. Multi-center Clinical Studies in Nutrition & Obesity; Nutrition Obesity Research Centers; Diet & Physical Activity Assessment Methodology

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NIDDK funds the Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORC) via P30 . For required tables and documentation, please see the NORC Application Resources .

Most recent RFA (expired): RFA-DK-21-015 .

Resources and Services Available from Nutrition Obesity Research Centers

Visit the centralized  NORC website  for detailed information about the NORCs, including research resources, and services available to the broader research community.

The NORC program supports 11 Centers providing research infrastructure, including research services, enrichment programs, and collaborative activities, at academic/medical institutions throughout the U.S. The goal of the program is to foster interdisciplinary basic, clinical, and public health research. Center programs are expected to bring together established and new investigators who are actively conducting high-quality research programs related to common nutritional sciences and/or obesity theme(s). NORCs are aimed at improving the quality and multidisciplinary nature of research in nutritional sciences and/or obesity by providing shared access to specialized technical resources and expertise. The NORC program ultimately strengthens and provides cost-effective research resources to multidisciplinary groups at institutions with an established, comprehensive research base in nutritional sciences and/or obesity and related research topics.

Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH)

• Institution: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Collaborating institution(s): Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
• Research purpose/goals : The mission of the  NORCH  is to support and promote a highly productive group of researchers working in key thematic interests, to enable scientific discovery in nutrition and obesity, and to make knowledge of these discoveries available through a robust education and enrichment program. The specific goals of the NORCH are to provide accessible, high quality metabolic phenotyping services; provide access to leading edge technologies for functional imaging of metabolic pathways, tissue composition, and neural circuitry; enable access to expert consultants in bioinformatics, genomics, and cell biology; foster the advancement of junior investigators through access to pilot funding, statistical guidance, and education in nutrition and obesity; and increase communication and collaboration within our community of investigators, and disseminate research results to the larger public and scientific communities.
• Genomics and Cell Biology Core
• Metabolic Imaging Core
• Metabolic Phenotyping Core
• Pilot and Feasibility Program

New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center

• Parent institution: Columbia University, New York City, New York
• Collaborating Institution : Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York
• Research purpose/goals : The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center (NYNORC) provides a nexus of basic and translational research in obesity and its allied disorders that is explicitly designed to promote close collaborations of research scientists and clinicians. The Center is closely integrated with all the relevant technical, intellectual and clinical resources of two major medical centers -Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine - and has a long history of achievement in nearly all areas of obesity research and clinical care. The scientific focus and current scientific efforts of the Center’s investigators are organized around six themes: (1) the etiology of obesity; (2) the physiology of weight regulation and nutrient use; (3) the pathophysiology and complications of obesity; (4) treatment and prevention strategies for obesity; (5) development of new tools and strategies for the study of nutrition and obesity; (6) and the training and development of scientists to study obesity.
• Animal Phenotyping Core (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
• Molecular Biology/Molecular Genetics (Columbia University)
• Human Phenotyping (Columbia University)

Colorado NORC

• Parent Institution : University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
• Collaborating Intuitions : Colorado State University (CSU); Boulder, CO; University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder CO; University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO; University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
• Research purpose/goals : The mission of the Colorado NORC is to advance the science of nutrition and obesity by facilitating interdisciplinary, collaborative, translational research and by fostering the development of the next generation of scientists in the Rocky Mountain region. The central theme of the Colorado NORC is the prevention and treatment of obesity and its metabolic complications across the lifespan, through better nutrition, lifestyle modifications, and medical treatments.
• Clinical Intervention and Translation Core
• Energy Balance Assessment Core
• Molecular and Cellular Analytic Core

Michigan Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (MNORC)

• Institution:  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Research purpose/goals : The mission of the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Center (MNORC) is to provide researchers with infrastructure, expertise, and training to integrate, analyze, and model data from properly designed basic, clinical, and population-based studies in obesity and metabolism-related diseases with a goal to identify better ways for prevention and treatment of obesity.
• Weight Management Program
• Childhood Obesity Research Core
• Adipose Tissue Core
• Nutrition, Exercise and phenotype Testing (NExT) Core
• Molecular Phenotyping Core

Pennington/Louisiana NORC

• Parent Institution : Pennington Biomedical Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Collaborating Institutions : Louisiana State University A&M, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ochsner Health Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Research purpose/goals : Over the years, the Pennington/Louisiana NORC conducts research covering the biological and environmental determinants of the energy balance equation as well as the relationship between obesity and cardio-metabolic health.  Our vision emphasizes the general theme of  nutrition and metabolic health through the lifespan with emphasis on mechanisms, prevention, and treatment modalities at each step of the lifespan. The collective research base is related to the metabolic impact of nutrition on health and diseases. 
• Human Phenotyping Core
• Molecular Mechanisms Core
• Animal Core

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) NORC

• Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
• Research purpose/goals : The UAB NORC is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center established to foster a multidisciplinary approach to basic, clinical, and translational research and research training with an emphasis on understanding the causal factors underlying nutrition and obesity-related health problems and the generation and evaluation on their consequences, prevention, and alleviation.
• Behavioral Science and Analytics Core
• Animal Models Core
• Metabolism Core

University of California San Francisco NORC

• Institution: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
• Research purpose/goals : The purpose of the UCSF-NORC is to promote and grow research in obesity, nutrition, and metabolism at UCSF and throughout northern California. This is realized by maintaining, improving, and promoting the interactions and collaborations of researchers in the field with each other and with those outside the field; supporting the maintenance and evolution of state-of-the-art Research Cores to meet the needs of obesity, nutrition, and metabolism research; facilitating the development of new research directions and the entry of new researchers into the field via Pilot & Feasibility opportunities; enriching the NORC research community through pertinent educational forums and other venues that support the development and maintenance of research interactions; and integrating administrative support to ensure that the infrastructure meets the needs of the local obesity, nutrition and metabolism research community.
• Human Metabolism Core
• Mouse Metabolism and Imaging Core
• Genetics and Genomics Core

University of North Carolina Nutrition Obesity Research Center

• Institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Research purpose/goals : Since the UNC NORC’s inception in 1999, the Center has facilitated the development and transfer of cutting-edge research from the laboratory to the general public for a wide range of research studies. The goals of the UNC NORC are to provide resources and support to investigators conducting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research in nutritional sciences and obesity; enhance the impact and presence of nutrition and obesity research at UNC; strengthen clinical nutrition training programs for medical students, practicing physicians, and allied health personnel; and translate findings from obesity and nutrition research to the general public to improve their overall health and well-being.
• Animal Metabolism Phenotyping Core
• Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core
• Metabolism and Metabolomics Core
• Precision Nutrition Core

University of Texas Southwestern Nutrition Obesity Research Center

• Institution : University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• Research purpose/goals : The purpose of the UT-Southwestern NORC is to provide the infrastructure to support, facilitate, and advance studies in nutrition, obesity, and metabolic syndrome; to develop the next generation of nutrition and obesity researchers; to establish Interdisciplinary research teams to create dialogue and support collaborations to support translation of basic scientific findings to humans; and to effectively communicate these advances to the public.
• Animal Phenotyping/Metabolism Core
• Lipid Mass Spectrometry Core
• Quantitative Metabolism and Imaging Core
• Genetics, Single-Cell Sequencing, and RNA Sequencing Core

University of Washington Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (UW NORC)

• Institution : University of Washington & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Seattle, Washington
• Research purpose/goals : The University of Washington Nutrition and Obesity Research Center’s overarching goal is to support basic, clinical, and translational research at UW related to nutrition, obesity, and related metabolic disturbances. The aims are to offer a balanced array of services in support of research in nutrition and obesity in a manner that evolves to meet the specific needs of our investigators; to advance science by offering, optimizing, and individualizing services that otherwise would be either unavailable to or not cost-effective for the local nutrition and obesity research community; and to proactively support collaboration within, and the educational enrichment of, the local nutrition and obesity research community.
• Analytic Core
• Clinical and Translational Research Services Core
• Energy Balance Core
• Biostatistics Sub-core
• Discovery Metabolomics Sub-core

Washington University Nutrition Obesity Research Center

• Institution: Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
• Research purpose/goals : The Washington University NORC seeks to stimulate new and innovative nutrition and obesity research and attract new investigators to the field of nutrition and obesity by supporting collaborative research among investigators from different disciplines and in different Washington University schools, departments, and divisions. It also strives to improve the training and education of students, house staff, postdoctoral research fellows, physician faculty, and allied health personnel in clinical nutrition, obesity medicine, and nutrition/obesity research; and to enrich nutritional aspects of patient care by enhancing clinical nutrition services and improving physician and healthcare provider knowledge of nutrition.
• Cellular and Molecular Biology Core
• Animal Model Research Core
• Clinical Science Research Core
• Dissemination and Implementation Science Core

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New York Obesity Research Center

• Leibel, Rudolph R.L (PI)
• Chung, Wendy K. (CoPI)
• Gallagher, Dympna D (CoPI)
• Ferrante, Anthony W. (CoPI)
• Korner, Judith (CoPI)
• Pi-Sunyer, Xavier (CoPI)
• Schwartz, Gary J. (CoPI)
• Zhang, Yiying (CoPI)
• Van Itallie, Theodore B. (CoPI)
• Matthews, Dwight D.E (CoPI)
• Faust, Irving M. (CoPI)
• Gallagher, Dympna (CoPI)
• Gibbs, James (CoPI)
• Greenwood, null M. R. C. (CoPI)
• Heymsfield, Steven (CoPI)
• Gibbs, James J.P (CoPI)
• Kissileff, Harry (CoPI)
• Leibel, Rudolph L. (CoPI)
• Matthews, Dwight (CoPI)
• Scherer, Philipp P.E (CoPI)
• Heymsfield, Steven S (CoPI)
• Gibbs, James P. (CoPI)
• Matthews, Dwight E. (CoPI)

Project : Research project

Project Details

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https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=10879746

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• obesity Agriculture & Biology 100%
• nutrition research Agriculture & Biology 48%
• translational medical research Agriculture & Biology 17%
• diabetes Agriculture & Biology 12%
• phenotype Agriculture & Biology 11%
• molecular biology Agriculture & Biology 10%
• nutrition Agriculture & Biology 8%
• mentoring Agriculture & Biology 8%

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Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD

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I completed Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D degrees in Human Nutrition at McGill University. My Master's degree thesis focused on the impact of kefir, a fermented milk product, on cholesterol synthesis rates and circulating lipid profile in men with overweight and mild hypercholesterolemia. I developed a passion for research and a strong interest in foods that could influence disease risk factors. I therefore decided to pursue a Ph.D, this time studying the effects of medium chain triglyceride oil consumption on energy expenditure, body composition and cardio-metabolic risk factors in men and women with overweight/obesity. Upon completion of my training at McGill, I joined the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center and the Institute of Human Nutrition as a Post-Doctoral Fellow to further my knowledge in the area of energy metabolism and body composition.

My first faculty position came within 2 years of starting my fellowship and I joined the faculty of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There, I continued my research on dietary fats, including medium chain triglycerides, and dairy but also encountered colleagues interested in the role of sleep on energy balance regulation. However, it wasn't until my return to Columbia University, in 2007, that I received NIH funding to study sleep and energy balance and my research now focuses greatly on sleep and its association with obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors. Interestingly, we're finding that sleep influences diet and that diet may also influence sleep, bringing me back to my original passion related to foods and their influence on disease risk.

Academic Appointments

Administrative titles.

• Director, Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research

Education & Training

• MSc, 1999 Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• PhD, 2003 Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Fellowship: 2004 Columbia University, New York, NY

Committees, Societies, Councils

American Heart Association:

Member of the Nutrition Committee, Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health

Member of the Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee

Abstract reviewer for Scientific Sessions Annual Meeting and EPI/Lifestyle Scientific Sessions

Sleep Research Society:

Member of the Communications Committee

National Healthy Sleep Awareness Project:

Representative from teh American Heart Assocation

American Society for Nutrition:

Honors & Awards

2012 Fellow of the American Heart Association

1997 Golden Key National Honors Society, McGill University

2014 Outstanding Reviewer, Appetite journal

2013 Science Unbound Foundation, Best Paper Award, Obesity-Related Research at New York Obesity Research Center

2008 Mark Bieber Award, Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, American Heart Association (AHA)

2005 Future Leader Award, International Life Sciences Institute of North America

2004 Science Unbound Foundation, Best Paper Award, Obesity-Related Research at New York Obesity Research Center

Young Investigator Award, American Society for Clinical Nutrition

2003 New Investigator Award, Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, AHA

2002 Christine Gagnon Memorial Travel Award, Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences (CSNS) (also in 1999 and 2001)

Alma Mater Student Travel Award, McGill University

1998 Helen R. Neilsen Scholarship, McGill University

1997 Sally Henry Leadership Award, McGill University

My research is focused on identifying the causality of the association between lifestyle behaviors, such as diet and sleep, and cardio-metabolic risk.

The overall focus of my research is the study of the impact of various dietary and behavioral factors on energy balance. I am most interested in the study of lifestyle behaviors for body weight control and cardiovascular disease prevention. This includes examining the relation between sleep and weight management and cardiometabolic disease risk as well as the effects of functional foods/beverages and food components for weight management and cardiovascular disease risk prevention. I have strong expertise in the conduct of controlled inpatient and outpatient studies of sleep and dietary manipulations. Methods employed in my lab include indirect calorimetry and actigraphy (energy expenditure, physical activity & sleep); magnetic resonance imaging, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, and computed tomography (body composition); and functional magnetic resonance imaging (neuronal networks involved in appetite regulation and control). I study the impact of lifestyle behaviors on cardiometabolic risk factors such as obesity, dyslipidemia, blood pressure, glucose tolerance and inflammation and on hormones implicated in energy balance regulation, such as leptin, ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide-1, and peptide YY.

Research Interests

• dietary fats and cardio metabolic risk
• medium chain triglycerides and obesity risk
• nuts and cardio metabolic risk
• Sleep and Cardiometabolic Risk
• sleep and diet
• sleep and obesity risk

Selected Publications

Select Publications:

St-Onge MP, Aban I, Bosarge A, Gower B, Hecker KD, Allison DB. Snack chips fried in corn oil alleviate cardiovascular risk factors when substituted for low-fat or high-fat snacks. Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:1503-1510. PMID:17556685.

St-Onge MP, Bosarge A. A weight loss diet that includes consumption of medium chain triacylglycerol oil leads to a greater rate of weight and fat mass loss compared to olive oil. Am J Clin Nutr 2008;87:621-626. PMID:18326600; PMCID:PMC2874190.

Salinardi TC, Rubin KH, Black RM, St-Onge MP. Coffee mannooligosaccharides, consumed as part of a free-living, weight maintaining diet, increases the proportional reduction in body volume in overweight men. J Nutr 2010;140:1943-1948. PMID:20861211; PMCID:PMC2955875.

St-Onge MP, Roberts AL, Chen J, Kelleman M, O'Keeffe M, Jones PJH, RoyChoudhury A. Short sleep duration increases energy intakes but does not change energy expenditure in normal weight individuals. Am J Clin Nutr, 2011;94:410-416. PMID:21715510; PMCID:PMC3142720.

St-Onge MP, McReynolds A, Trivedi ZB, Roberts AL, Sy M, Hirsch J. Sleep restriction leads to increased activation of brain regions sensitive to food stimuli. Am J Clin Nutr 2012;95:818-824. PMID:22357722; PMCID:PMC3302360.

St-Onge MP, Salinardi T, Rubin KH, Black RM. A weight loss diet that includes a coffee beverage enriched in mannooligosaccharides leads to greater loss of adipose tissue than a placebo beverage in overweight men. Obesity 2012;20:343-348. PMID:21938072; PMCID:PMC3677212.

Mansour MS, Ni YM, Roberts AL, Kelleman M, RoyChoudhury A, St-Onge MP. Ginger consumption enhanced the thermic effect of food and promotes feelings of satiety in overweight men: A preliminary study. Metabolism 2012;61:1347-52. PMID:22538118; PMCID:PMC3408800.

Shechter A, Rising R, Albu J, St-Onge MP. Experimental sleep curtailment causes wake-dependent increases in 24-hour energy expenditure as measured by whole-room indirect calorimetry. Am J Clin Nutr 2013;98:1433-9. PMID:24088722.

Durhandar EJ, Dawson J, Alcorn A, Larsen LH, Thomas E, Cardel M, Bourland AC, Astrup A, St-Onge MP, Hill JO, Apovian CM, Shikany J, Allison DB. The effectiveness of breakfast recommendations on weight loss: A randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;100:507-13. PMID:24898236; PMCID:PMC4095657.

Shechter A, St-Onge MP. Delayed sleep timing is associated with low levels of free-living physical activity in normal sleeping adults. Sleep Med 2014;15:1586-9. PMID:25311835; NIHMSID636664.

St-Onge MP, Grandner MA, Brown D, Conroy MB, Jean-Louis G, Coons M, Bhatt DL. Sleep duration and quality: Impact on lifestyle behaviors and cardiometabolic health. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2016;134:e367-86. PMID:27647451; PMCID:PMC5567876.

St-Onge M-P, Roberts A, Shechter A, RoyChoudhury A. Fiber and saturated fat are associated with sleep arousals and slow wave sleep. J Clin Sleep Med 2016;12:19-24. PMID:26156950; PMCID:PMC4702189.

St-Onge MP, Mikic A, Pietrolungo CE. Effects of diet on sleep quality. Adv Nutr 2016;7:938-49. PMID:276331109; PMCID:PMC5015038.

St-Onge MP, Ard J, Baskin ML, Chiuve SB, Johnson HM, Kris-Etherton P, Varady K. Meal timing and frequency: implications for cardiovascular disease prevention. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2017;135:e96-e121. PMID:28137935.

Pizinger T, Kovtun K, RoyChoudhury A, Lafferère B, Shechter A, St-Onge M-P. Pilot study of sleep and meal timing effects, independent of sleep duration and food intake, on insulin sensitivity in healthy individuals. Sleep Health, in press.

What Foods Can Disturb Your Sleep?

Gastrointestinal changes after bariatric surgery

Affiliations.

• 1 New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1111, Amsterdam Avenue, 1034 New York, NY 10025, USA; Department of Medicine, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA.
• 2 Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA; Department of Medicine, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA.
• 3 Department of Surgery, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA.
• 4 New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1111, Amsterdam Avenue, 1034 New York, NY 10025, USA; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA; Department of Medicine, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025, USA; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• PMID: 24359701
• PMCID: PMC4391395
• DOI: 10.1016/j.diabet.2013.11.003

Severe obesity is a preeminent health care problem that impacts overall health and survival. The most effective treatment for severe obesity is bariatric surgery, an intervention that not only maintains long-term weight loss but also is associated with improvement or remission of several comorbidies including type 2 diabetes mellitus. Some weight loss surgeries modify the gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology, including the secretions and actions of gut peptides. This review describes how bariatric surgery alters the patterns of gastrointestinal motility, nutrient digestion and absorption, gut peptide release, bile acids and the gut microflora, and how these changes alter energy homeostasis and glucose metabolism.

Keywords: Bariatric surgery; Diabetes; Gastric bypass; Gut peptides; Obesity.

Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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• Bariatric Surgery*
• Blood Glucose / metabolism*
• Energy Metabolism
• Gastrointestinal Absorption
• Gastrointestinal Hormones / metabolism*
• Gastrointestinal Motility
• Gastrointestinal Tract / anatomy & histology
• Gastrointestinal Tract / physiopathology
• Gastrointestinal Tract / surgery*
• Obesity, Morbid / physiopathology
• Obesity, Morbid / surgery*
• Weight Loss*
• Blood Glucose
• Gastrointestinal Hormones

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A new study has discovered that having fizzy drinks such as cola before the age of two can cause weight gain in your twenties, while kids who drink fruit juice tend to have healthier diets in the future . 

The Swansea University research followed 14,000 British children from birth to adulthood and is believed to be the longest of its kind ever reported.

The results, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, showed that children who drank fizzy drinks or sugar-sweetened fruit cordials before the age of two gained more weight when they were 24 years old.

At three years old, toddlers who drank cola were seen to consume more calories, fat, protein, and sugar but less fiber while those given pure apple juice consumed less fat and sugar but higher amounts of fiber.

A link was also found between childhood drinks and different food choices, with kids who had pure apple juice eating more fish, fruit, green vegetables, and salad — compared with cola kids who ate more burgers, sausages, pizza, french fries, meat, chocolate, and sweets.

Lead researcher Professor David Benton said: “The early diet establishes a food pattern that influences, throughout life, whether weight increases. 

“The important challenge is to ensure that a child develops a good dietary habit: one that offers less fat and sugar, although pure fruit juice, one of your five a day, adds vitamin C, potassium, folate, and plant polyphenols.”

Additionally, the team discovered a link between sugar-sweetened drinks and social deprivation, with children from richer backgrounds more likely to have access to pure fruit juice.

The researchers hope that their findings will encourage parents to pay more attention to their children’s diet in the first years of life. 

Dr. Hayley Young added: “Obesity is a serious health concern, one that increases the risk of many other conditions. 

“Our study shows that the dietary causes of adult obesity begin in early childhood and that if we are to control it, more attention needs to be given to our diet in the first years of life.”

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Multiple Campuses. Multiple Disciplines.

There is a great public desire for more information on nutrition and how the foods we consume affect our health. There is also an increasing interest in supporting research that explores the development, treatment, and prevention of obesity. Both nutritional sciences and obesity research have become largely interdisciplinary and is primarily dependent upon the close interactions among researchers, health services providers, and educators to solve the most pressing health issues in the country.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is committed to supporting research for many of the most serious diseases affecting the general population and imparting this information to physicians, health professionals and the community at large with the goal of improving public health. The Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) program, supported by NIDDK, was specifically designed to combat the serious public health problem of obesity and support research that gives us a better understanding about the relationship between health and nutrition.

The NORC program supports 11 university-based centers that are are aimed at improving the quality and multidisciplinary nature of research in nutritional sciences and obesity by providing shared access to specialized services, resources, and expertise.

The overall goal of the program is to bring together basic science, clinical, and translational investigators from relevant disciplines to enhance and extend the effectiveness of nutritional sciences and obesity-related research.

To accomplish this, the NORCs are specifically designed to:

• Create an environment that supports important and innovative research
• Attract and retain early stage investigators and investigators new to nutrition and obesity research
• Provide core services that leverage funding and unique expertise
• Foster interdisciplinary collaborations, especially in emerging areas of research, to catalyze new ideas and scientific approaches
• Raise awareness and interest in fundamental and clinical nutrition and obesity research locally, regionally, and nationally
• Promote the translation of scientific discoveries from the bench to the bedside to the community in order to improve public health
• Enhance nutrition and obesity research education and training opportunities for patients, students, scientists, and clinicians

Mary Evans, PhD

Program Director, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition

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