Personal Dietary Patterns Calculator (DiPac)
Explore our novel web-based resource, Dietary Patterns Calculator (DiPac), to assess your eating patterns against dietary recommendations, rank your diet among Canadians, and gain insights for lowering chronic disease risk through diet changes. Access the tool here: https://www.projectbiglife.ca/dietary-patterns/landing-page Learn more: CTV Coverage: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2787463 CBC Insight: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/16016839-a-online-food-calculator-assess-health-risks-improve UBC News Report: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/10/12/new-personal-diet-calculator-to-help-people-make-healthier-choices/ 980 CKNW: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dQpEtunzBpd3IWQT3yeX7 Photo Credit: Jimmy […]
Food Security, Nutrition, and Indigenous Health in the Arctic
Our NEPoH affiliated predoctoral fellow and Yale PhD candidate Sappho Gilbert was recently interviewed on the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ podcast series, “Environmental Health Chat.” In it, she describes her community-engaged research in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut on the nutrition transition, Inuit food security and sovereignty, and climate change as well as the […]
Congratulations to Alisha for the CIHR Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to Alisha Buttar for being awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s award 2022 for her first year of Master’s studies. She has a BSc in Food, Nutrition and Health major in Dietetics from UBC. Her research interests include population health, chronic disease prevention through a dietary perspective […]
Snapshots from a recent research trip to the Canadian Artic
Our lab’s affiliated predoctoral fellow Sappho Gilbert published a photo essay for one of her dissertation funders, the Yale Sustainable Food Program. In the piece, she offers a peek into her recent research trip to Nunavut, Canada. Check it out here! Photo Credit: Sappho Gilbert