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“I support the players from an individual approach,” Meinhold says. “I’m there if they have individual questions, if they have individual needs, or if we’ve noticed something.”

“When you compare milk banking to other critical donations like blood and organs, this is just in the shadows – it’s not very well known.”

“In research, we can develop interventions and programs where we can affect numerous people at one time, communities at one time,” [Enahora] said. “I think it just really helps to advance the practitioner’s role…and complement what’s done in practice.”

As a high school student, Jessica Pastuf ’18 dreamed of one day working as an NFL dietician. 

That dream led her to UNC Greensboro to pursue a bachelor of science in nutrition, and then to the University of Utah, where she completed her master’s in sports nutrition.

Now, less than three years after her UNCG graduation, she’s playing an integral role in promoting the high performance fueling habits of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as they prepare to compete in the Super Bowl.

Dr. Jared McGuirt thinks we should pay more attention to billboards.

“Advertisements in our environment have simple messaging; the graphics are very intentional. These companies know what they’re doing,” says the assistant professor of nutrition. “We should take our cues from the business sector.”

High saturated fat diets physically alter the way we think about food. They wreck the brain’s pleasure center, requiring ever more saturated fat to elicit the same level of enjoyment. Assistant professor Steven Fordahl is determining how and why that wreckage occurs.

The United States has an obesity epidemic, and the impact is expanding. 

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, approximately 40 percent of American adults are obese. That struggle comes with increased risks for a host of illnesses, and even with a $3 billion diet industry, the price tag of obesity-related medical care weighs in at $147 billion to $210 billion annually.

Nutrition students participated in the virtual Undergraduate and Graduate Research Expos

“To show you how far we’ve come, today if a woman gives birth 16 weeks early, there’s a chance the NICU can take care of that baby,” says Maryanne Perrin, assistant professor in UNCG’s School of Health and Human Sciences.  

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