nutrihealth
The NutriHealth Group investigates the mechanisms by which nutrition influences health.
activities
The NutriHealth Group activities include scrutinising nutritional exposure through food patterns and (non-) nutrient characterisation, and modelling the diet-disease relationship, with a particular focus on metabolic and health related conditions.
More specifically, the group seeks to provide the research, medical and general population communities with easy-to-use (bio-)markers to assess emerging risk factors of morbidities, such as oxidative stress, antioxidant status, inflammation, and body composition disturbances. This is achieved via in vitro/cellular modelling and human observational and intervention studies, exploring a variety of markers ranging from questionnaires/indices and individual compounds to -omics based tools, also studying factors resulting in inter-individual differences to dietary exposure, such as genetic background and microbiome.
The NutriHealth goal is to expand our expertise to better understand the relationship between (non-) nutrients, dietary patterns and chronic and age-related health issues such as cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, frailty and cognitive aspects, and to contribute to improve the control and prevention of diseases via translational research.
Some of the group’s research projects include:
- I2TRON – a translational research project exploring mechanisms link dietary fiber, markers of inflammation related to disease and the gut microbiota
- SUSTEATABLE – To assess the sustainability of the Luxembourgish food system
- Obesity & cardiometabolic issues in adult residents in Luxembourg (2007 – 2017)
- Dietary patterns in Luxembourg and relation to cardiometabolic diseases
- METHOOD – Investigating the relationships between the socio-economic and physical environmental characteristics of residential neighborhoods, behavioral CM risk factors with a focus on dietary habits and physical activity, and the metabolic syndrome.
- CAROFIBER – Revealing the influence of dietary fiber on the bioavailability of carotenoids, as well as studying Interactions of gut microbiota and carotenoids – UPCOMING
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Projects & clinical trials
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Scientific publications
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Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults – 01/05/2024
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Carotenoid pattern intake and relation to metabolic status, risk and syndrome, and its components – divergent findings from the ORISCAV-LUX-2 survey – 19/04/2024
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Association between dietary total antioxidant capacity and the risk of stroke – 15/04/2024
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Safety of ashitaba sap as a Novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 – 11/03/2024
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Association between Dietary Practice and Gait Speed in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Overweight and Obesity – 08/03/2024
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Multicomponent (bio)markers for obesity risk prediction – 08/03/2024
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Effects of crocin on inflammatory biomarkers and mental health status in patients with multiple sclerosis – 20/01/2024
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Pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidant diets are associated with increased odds of cataracts and serum biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress – 01/03/2024
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Safety of magnesium l-threonate as a novel food pursuant to regulation (EU) 2015/2283 and bioavailability of magnesium from this source in the context of Directive 2002/46/EC – 01/03/2024
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Extension of use of isomalto-oligosaccharide as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 – 05/02/2024
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Job vacancies
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Post-Doctoral Fellow in Nutrition/Public Health (JA/PDFNPH1023/TB/NUT)
Department of Precision Health – Nutrition & Health Research Group