Lifecourse Nutrition and Health

• We investigate the effects of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, fish, wholegrains, breast milk, school meals, high protein diets, physical activity and sleep — among other factors — in different stages of life.
• We measure the impact of dietary factors on growth, body composition, weight regulation, metabolism, cardiovascular health, bone health, cognitive function, mental health, and risk of lifestyle diseases such as type-2 diabetes.
• We explore social inequalities, sex-differences, diet-gene interactions, potential mechanisms of action and the role of the gut microbiota.
• We design our research with emphasis on public health relevance and clinical applicability.

• High-quality diet-based randomized clinical trials and deep phenotyping cohort studies in pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
• Collection and analysis of fasting blood samples in infants, children and adults with focus on nutritional status, cardiometabolic markers, growth factors and immune markers.
• Assessment of body composition and bone mineralization by air-displacement plethysmography (BODPOD and PEAPOD) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
• Measurements of dietary intake by dietary registration, food frequency questionnaires and nutritional biomarkers, and assessment of physical activity and sleep by accelerometry.
• Measurements of energy metabolism and substrate oxidation by indirect calorimetry (canopy and chambers).

We collaborate with leading researchers and experts within public health, medical science, microbiome, immunology, lipidomics and genetics.

Our research also involves collaboration with schools, municipalities and other local and national stakeholders.

We are responsible for several courses.

You can read more about our bachelor and master courses by looking them up in the course catalogue for University of Copenhagen.

Bachelor courses

• Sundhed, Ernæring og Livskvalitet A (NNEB21006U)
• Basal human fysiologi (NNEB19009U)

Master courses

• Integrative Human Metabolism (NNEK23003U)
• Diet and Physical Activity in Prevention and Treatment of Disease (NNEK23005U) 
• Lifecourse Nutrition and Health (NNEK23004U)
• Evidence, Diet and Health (LLEK10249U)