Early Nutrition and Health Research Group

Nutrition plays a crucial role in maintaining overall health and well-being. Particularly, early life nutrition lay the foundation for growth, development, and long-term health across the generations. Further, behavioral factors like eating habits and emotions are of considerable significance in food choice, and subsequent provision of nutrients to satisfy the metabolic demands of the human body, and thus in shaping health and disease outcomes.

Our mission is to excel in scientific research on the relations of nutrition and health throughout lifespan. We have an interest in dietary intake, gut microbiota, immune function, and metabolism, and further a range of health and disease outcomes, these including neurocognitive development, obesity, diabetes and allergy, which are cross-influenced by behavioral factors.

We have several on-going studies with participants from different groups across the lifespan including mothers and children. We carry out short- and long-term studies in which we utilize golden standard methods. We also develop and test methods for dietary intake assessment in different groups of individuals. Alongside academic research, we are open for industrially driven research and development projects.