The Bionutrition Unit offers a variety of services to investigators in nutrition-related research. Dietitians are available to help plan, design, and implement the nutritional components of research protocols; recruit and screen research participants; and collect and analyze dietary intake data. Our Metabolic Kitchen’s research cooks are experts in preparing research meals.
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Bionutrition Core Services
- Consultation for research protocol design, development, and implementation
- Controlled feeding studies/monitoring participants on controlled diets; meal services for other research participants
- Anthropomorphic measurements (body composition, skinfolds, waist/hip circumferences)
- Nutrient intake data (using the Nutrition Data System for Research, or NDS-R, software program)
- Nutrition education
Major Resources/Equipment
- Metabolic Kitchen: prepares specially designed research diets for participants in outpatient-based studies; a multi-purpose room is also available for nutrition studies that require on-site feeding
- Tanita body composition analyzer TBF-310 and BC-418 (bioelectric impedance analysis)
- Biodynamics bio-impedance analyzer
- Stadiometer to measure height electronically
- Lange calipers
- Scaletronic digital scale
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