Research Projects at PPGN

• Coffee: chemistry, quality and bioactivity.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Social and ethnic inequalities – racial differences in health, food and nutrition.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Body variables, biochemical, molecular, clinical, nutritional and metabolic phenotype in different population segments, in different stages of the life cycle and in the pre-operative of metabolic surgery.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Development of innovations in food and nutrition in sport high performance: interventions in human and animal models.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Observational and intervention in human models: impact on nutritional status and physical performance.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Theoretical and practical contributions to group health and nutrition care maternal and child.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Nutritional status during pregnancy and growth in the first two years of life: data from systems of health information.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Phytochemicals and cancer: analysis of functional foods with emphasis on cytotoxic effects in cell cultures.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Obesity and nutritional intervention strategies: molecular, metabolic and physiological studies for new therapeutic approaches.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Defining gestational weight gain ranges based on new Brazilian curves: impact on food and nutrition policy using SISVAN-SINASC data.
• ENANI – National Nutrition Study and Child Nutrition.
• Human milk: bioactive compounds, association with maternal health and child development, and construction of reference values for micronutrients.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Micronutrient homeostasis and ontogeny of degenerative diseases.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Bioactive compounds of human milk and its associations with child development and maternal health: new approaches in microbiota bioinformatics analysis.
• Calcium-vitamin D supplementation and Periodontal Therapy for improving metabolic and inflammatory profile among pregnant women: a feasibility trial (THE IMPROVE TRIAL).

Research Projects at PPGN

• Contemporary culture as an interactive social praxis for Food Education.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Effect of technological processing on the profile of phenolic compounds of food and their outcomes in metabolism and bioactivity.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Nutritional assistance to children, adolescents and pregnant women with chronic and critical conditions.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Indicators and determinants of food insecurity in Brazil.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Nutritional epidemiology: consumption of food, nutritional status, lifestyle and associated factors – methodological aspects, description and analysis.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Studies on the metabolism of placenta, focusing on lipid metabolism, maternal diabetes, gestational obesity and related emerging diseases.

Research Projects at PPGN

• Development, implementation and effectiveness of products, processes and protocols, genetic and epigenetic aspects in the nutritional treatment of patients with liver disease, patients with cancer, infectious and critical diseases.