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Theme Nutrition and health

You are what you eat. It’s a saying with lots of meaning, because to a large extent our nutrition determines our health.

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  • Optimum food usage by the Salvation Army

    The Salvation Army wants to pay more attention to eating and meals. The ambition is to use waste food from the food industry into its warm meals and...

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  • EHEC, or how to control a cross-border crisis?

    Within the framework of the Interreg IV-A programme, the EC will start a project on cross-border crises control and communication the Euregion...

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  • Intestinal bacterium Akkermansia curbs obesity

    A dominant and useful bacterium called Akkermansia muciniphila is present in the intestinal system of all humans, from babies to the elderly. This...

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  • Ethics of Nutrigenomics

    May 16, the Philosophy Group and CSG Nijmegen will organise a workshop about Nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics research promises a future in which health...

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Topics

  • Healthy nutrition
  • Producing healthy food
  • Nutrition and techonolgy
  • Consumers and their behaviour
  • Tailored nutrition
  • Food safety
  • Food Waste

News

  • PhD thesis defense: D. Esser (Diederik) May 22, 2013
  • EHEC, or how to control a cross-border crisis? May 16, 2013
  • Intestinal bacterium Akkermansia curbs obesity May 13, 2013
  • Enough food to go around in the Netherlands – even in a crisis May 3, 2013
  • PhD thesis defense: R.N. Novaković (Romana) May 2, 2013

Events

  • January 1, 2013 - Course Distance learning course: Key concepts in food and nutrition security
  • June 3, 2013 - Course Integrated pest management and food safety
  • June 3, 2013 - Course Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of food and nutrition security programmes
  • September 9, 2013 - Course Lost harvest and wasted food
  • September 23, 2013 - Course HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security

Facilities

  • Restaurant of the Future

Programmes

Want to study nutrition at Wageningen University?

  • MSc Food Quality Management
  • MSc Food Safety
  • MSc Food Technology
  • MSc Nutrition and Health

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