The University of Michigan's School of Public Health is creating a new department to study the complex issues around nutrition.
From the genome level up to studying societies, the new Department of Nutritional Sciences will take an interdisciplinary approach to the complex issue.
Public Health Dean Martin Philbert says the challenge includes trying to understand why educated people choose food that's not good for them long term. "Why we make the nutritional choices that we do. Why we tend to eat things that taste good and are rewarding, but may affect our waistline somewhat adversely," Philbert says.
Philbert says the Nutrition Department will work with colleagues in Medicine; Kinesiology; and Literature, Science and the Arts.
Work on graduate degrees in Nutritional Sciences starts next fall.
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