Pamela von Hurst | |
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| Alma mater | Massey University , Massey University |
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| Doctoral advisor | Jane Coad , Marlena Kruger , Welma Stonehouse |
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| Institutions | Massey University |
Pamela Ruth von Hurst is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at Massey University,specialising in human nutrition.
von Hurst completed a PhD titled The role of vitamin D in metabolism and bone health at Massey University. [1] von Hurst then joined the faculty at Massey,rising to full professor in 2021. [2] She established and is co-Director of the Massey Vitamin D Research Centre,and is a part of the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence. [2] [3] von Hurst has been President of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand. [2] In 2017 she represented New Zealand at the International Union of Nutritional Sciences. [4]
von Hurst's research focuses health and nutrition in children,physical activity,metabolic syndrome and health and disease. [5] She says she is "interested in the prevention of chronic disease by achieving optimum nutrition and lifestyle,including physical activity. My main platform of research currently is investigating the role of vitamin D in health and disease. I am also interested in the interaction of genes and nutrients,and investigating the role of genetic differences in determining response to nutritional deficiencies". [6] With her doctoral advisor Marlene Kruger she led research on the health benefits of drinking deer milk for preventing bone loss in older women. [7] She led a High Value Nutrition-funded study on the effect of mussel consumption on osteoarthritis. [4] von Hurst has reviewed Ministry of Health guidelines on sun exposure and vitamin D,was part of a Technical Advisory Group developing guidelines for eating and physical activity,and co-led a join New Zealand–Australian working group to develop a Federation of Oceanic Nutrition Societies. [2] [4]
Conrad Arnold Elvehjem (May 27, 1901 – July 27, 1962) was internationally known as an American biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified two vitamins, nicotinic acid, also known as niacin, and nicotinamide, which were deficient directly in human pellagra, once a major health problem in the United States. Collectively, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide are termed vitamin B3 and are now understood to be precursors of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
Nutrition psychology (NP) is the psychological study of the relationship between dietary intake and different aspects of psychological health. It is an applied field that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the influence of diet on mental health. Nutrition psychology seeks to understand the relationship between nutritional behavior and mental health/well-being NP is a sub-field of psychology and more specifically of health psychology. It may be applied to numerous different fields including: psychology, dietetics, nutrition, and marketing. NP is a fairly new field with a brief history that has already started to contribute information and knowledge to psychology. There are two main areas of controversy within nutrition psychology. The first area of controversy is that the topic can be viewed in two different ways. It can be viewed as nutrition affecting psychological functions, or psychological choices and behavior influencing nutrition and health. The second controversy is the defining of what is "healthy" or "normal" as related to nutrition.
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Gillian Abel is a New Zealand public health researcher and as of 2021 head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago in Christchurch.
Carol Anne Wham is a New Zealand scientist and professor of public health nutrition at Massey University.
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Siew-Young Quek is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in bioactive and functional food ingredients, lipid science and food processing.
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