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Research Professor, Programs in Nutrition<\/em><\/p>\n nmckeown@bu.edu<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The primary goal of Dr. McKeown\u2019s research is to examine how diet quality \u2014 and its interaction with genetics and other -omics \u2014 is associated with healthy aging and disease risk.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dr. Nicola McKeown is a Research Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University.\u00a0<\/span>She is internationally renowned for her research examining the role of whole grains in promoting health. She has made significant contributions to improving our understanding of the impact of different carbohydrate sources, in particular sugar-sweetened beverages,\u00a0on abdominal adiposity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes risk factors.\u00a0The primary goal of Dr. McKeown\u2019s research is to examine how diet quality is associated with healthy aging and to consider how genetic modification alters diet-disease risk as we age.\u00a0Dr. McKeown also collaborates on projects to understand the intersection between improving health and creating healthy, sustainable diets.\u00a0\u00a0She is the PI of an innovative project to develop a publicly available dietary fiber database, which compiles and synthesizes the current and emerging literature linking dietary fibers to human health outcomes.\u00a0She is the former PI of the Adhering to Dietary Approaches for Personal Taste (ADAPT) study, the first web-based study designed to capture data on diet and behavior among followers of popular diets, particularly more plant-based diets.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. McKeown has been an invited peer reviewer for many of the most prominent health and nutrition journals and is a member of the American Society of Nutrition and the American Heart Association. Dr. McKeown received a B.S. in Human Nutrition from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge in England. She has also been a Framingham Heart Study Investigator for over 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicola McKeown, PhD Research Professor, Programs in Nutrition nmckeown@bu.edu The primary goal of Dr. McKeown\u2019s research is to examine how diet quality \u2014 and its interaction with genetics and other -omics \u2014 is associated with healthy aging and disease risk. Biography Dr. Nicola McKeown is a Research Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20964,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mckeown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Biography<\/h4>\n
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