Dr. Marie Mortreux, a nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island’s Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab, is examining the issue through a series of studies partly funded by NASA.

Marie Mortreux, a researcher at the University of Rhode Island (URI) is working with NASA to address the health consequences that come from traveling in space.

Federal funds will help URI promote community education to prevent food waste and connect families in need to local food sources.

Dr. Ingrid Lofgren and Ph.D. candidate Dara LoBuono are conducting a study to assess how technology could help people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers easily access relevant nutrition information.

Maya Vadiveloo, an assistant professor in Nutrition and Food Sciences, is leading a research team that will partner with Belmont Market to study whether targeted food-purchase incentives can improve people’s eating habits and health outcomes.

URI’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) has been providing critical food and exercise information to vulnerable members of the community since the 1960s, and this year the program is using a new curriculum with the hope of further growing participation.

A nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island studying the effects of chewing sugar-free gum on weight management has found that it can help to reduce calorie intake and increase energy expenditure. Kathleen Melanson, URI associate professor of nutrition and food sciences, compared gum chewing to non-gum chewing in healthy adult volunteers who came […]