Nutrition 20
20
Schedule Planner is Available
Nutrition 2020 has a stellar program you won’t want to miss! The meeting will feature more than 100 sessions covering 6 tracks so you can get the knowledge and skills you need on the topics you want.
- Create an account on the Schedule Planner and you can:
- Add events to your itinerary or favorite exhibitors by clicking on the ★ next to the title/company name.
- From the Full Schedule, use the drop-down boxes at the top of the page to filter by track or session type.
- Add personal appointments.
- Export your personal schedule to your calendar, as a PDF, Word or Excel document or Print.
- PLUS, if you customize your schedule on the schedule planner it will automatically sync with the Nutrition 2020 Mobile App once it launches!
- Click here to create an account.
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Late Breaking / Rapid Science
Submissions Pilot for
Nutrition 20
20
!
This year, the American Society for Nutrition will pilot Late Breaking/Rapid Science submissions for Nutrition 2020. This category of submissions is for high-impact scientific research for which results were not available by the January 31, 2020 general abstract submission deadline.
These submissions should present data that are high impact, groundbreaking, innovative and newsworthy. This category is not a mechanism to update data submitted during the general abstract submission period.
ONLY A VERY SMALL NUMBER (2 to 4) LATE BREAKING/RAPID SCIENCE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION AT NUTRITION 2020. There will be no poster presentations for Late-Breaking/Rapid Science submissions.
KEY DATES:
- Late Breaking/Rapid Science submission opens: February 14, 2020
- Submission deadline: March 13, 2020, 11:59 PM ET
- Notifications sent: March 31, 2020
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Nutrition 20
20
Registration Early Bird Deadline: March 6!
We really outdid ourselves this time! There will be so much great science and networking packed into 4 days at Nutrition 2020, it’s like a dozen conferences combined into one.
- Join dialogues on today’s hottest topics in nutrition. Featured sessions include:
- Great Debates in Nutrition
- Chrono-nutrition: The Influence of Eating Patterns on Sleep and Metabolic Health
- Precision Nutrition
- Microbiome Research: Progress, Policy, and Promise
- Nutritional Omics
- Infant Feeding 2020 and Beyond
- Middle Childhood
- Improving Intake of Seafood in a Changing Environment
- Food Pantry Interventions to Improve Diet and Health among Low-Income Populations
- The Role of Economics to Support Nutrition Policies and Programs
- And more!
- Gain knowledge, be inspired, contribute to the global discussions, and make new connections
- Take a step back from your day-to-day and absorb the big ideas
- Explore the field’s greatest opportunities and challenges in new ways and from new perspectives.
- Find out what’s happening with the National Nutrition Institute, the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and the NIH Strategic Plan for Nutrition.
- “Connect with the Fed” to learn about federal nutrition research funding opportunities
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Register today for Nutrition 2020, May 30-June 2 in Seattle for
the immersive education and networking experience for basic, translational, clinical and population scientists and practitioners.
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Nutrition 2020/FASEB DREAM Mentored Travel Awards
Are you a graduate student, medical student, clinical fellow or early career professional who will be a first-time attendee to ASN’s flagship meeting? You may quality for a $1,500 grant to assist with travel and registration. Twenty awards will be given for Nutrition 2020.
Funding is restricted to USA citizens and Permanent Residents of the USA only. Travel awards are open to all groups including, but not limited to, underrepresented groups.
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ASN Video Competition:
Understanding Nutritional Science
ASN wants to showcase your video highlighting the importance of nutrition research! Enter the
Understanding Nutritional Science
video competition
by creating a short video (2 minutes or less) that explains the important nutrition research you conduct and how it benefits public health. Open to ASN members only! Deadline to enter is
February 28, 2020.
Prizes will be awarded! The first place individual/ team (of up to 5 individuals) wins one-year membership to ASN and free registration to
Nutrition 2020
!
Learn more at
nutrition.org/contest
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Nutrition 2020 Family Support Grants
Nutrition 2020 aims to be a family friendly environment and ASN is offering small grants to help off-set caregiving expenses to enable scientists with dependent children or family members to present their research in Seattle. The Nutrition 2020 Family Support Grant is a reimbursable allowance up to a maximum of $350 towards eligible funding scenarios. Provision of these grants is part of a study to assess and evaluate conference attendance feasibility; through this effort we will gather feedback about preferences and barriers to conference attendance.
For full eligibility guidelines, please
click here.
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Funding Opportunities from ASNF
The American Society for Nutrition Foundation (ASNF) is now accepting applications for a variety of funding and leadership opportunities, including:
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Health & Nutrition Policy Updates
ASN Comments During 4
th
DGAC Meeting
ASN provided
oral comments to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) at its 4
th meeting in Houston Texas, January 23 and 24. The archived webcast from that meeting is
available, and the proto
cols, conclusions from the evidence reviews, and eventual recommendations can be found
here.
The DGAC discussed analysis of data from evidence reviews on
several topics: prevalence of chronic diseases and the possible relationship of dietary patterns to all-cause mortality, chronic diseases, obesity, pregnancy and growth of infants from birth to 24 months. For many topics, the evidence reviews conducted found limited or no evidence to support relationships between diet and outcomes. Many studies were excluded because of poor design, lack of control populations, high attrition, and confounding factors or bias. The upcoming March 12-13, 2020 DGAC meeting in Washington, DC is the last deliberative meeting to determine final recommendations. The DGAC will hold an additional webinar meeting on May 11, 2020, to provide an overview of final recommendations before submission of the report to USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the end of May 2020. The final DGAs are set to be published by December 31, 2020.
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News from ASN Journals
Meet the new AJCN Academic Editor: Lorraine Brennan, BA, PhD
This month's featured AJCN Associate Editor is Lorraine Brennan, BA, PhD. Dr. Brennan is a Professor of Human Nutrition at the University College Dublin, Ireland. She is also currently serving as the Director of the Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO) and the Secretary of the Irish Section of the Nutrition Society.
Learn more about Dr. Brennan
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Advances in Nutrition
celebrates 10 years!
Ten years ago, with dedication and hard work, Professor John Suttie launched the first review journal for the American Society of Nutrition,
Advances in Nutrition
(AN). View the
10
th
Anniversary Collection
, with the most-cited article from each journal issue!
Approaching Deadline:
March 1
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Save the Date: Upcoming Webinar: Low-Carbohydrate Eating Patterns for Health – Friend or Foe?
Thursday, March 19, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Join us for a discussion on the scientific evidence on the health effects of low-carb diets and practical considerations. Featuring William Yancy, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine; Megan Rossi, PhD, RD, Research Fellow, King’s College London; and Beth Nieman Hacker, MBA, Director, Global Market Research, Tate & Lyle. Continuing Professional Education credits for dietitians will be provided.
Organized by the American Society for Nutrition in partnership with Tate & Lyle. Funded by Tate & Lyle.
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Save the Date: The Nutrient Sensing
and Metabolic Signaling Conference
August 9-14, 2020 | Nova Scotia, Canada | #NSMS20
This exciting interdisciplinary conference convenes scientists with diverse expertise to advance understanding of the biochemical mechanisms and fundamental principles of nutrients as signaling molecules and as regulators of metabolism. Established investigators from academia and industry and trainees – including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows – are well represented. The overarching goal of this meeting is to understand the role of nutrients as signaling molecules in metabolic control.
Important dates:
- Advance registration deadline Tuesday, June 23, 2020
- Last day to register Thursday, July 9, 2020
- Cancellation deadline Thursday, July 9, 2020
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Nutrition 20
19
Highlights
Relive
Nutrition 2019 or see what you may have missed as 3,200 nutrition scientists, global health specialists and public policy experts gathered June 8-11 in Baltimore!
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Missed Nutrition 2019, or attended a session you’d like to see again? Content is available on
ASN on Demand for purchase
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Visit ASN NutriLink today
ASN NutriLink
is the ASN members-only community forum. Post discussions, browse resource files, and search for a mentor - all in one place! It is also
home for all RIS and Council communities
. ASN NutriLink is the official way for RIS leaders to communicate deadlines, plan events and share other information specific to the group. Use
this guide
to adjust your email frequency. Contact the
ASN NutriLink Community Administrator
with any questions.
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Subscribe to
Nutrition Today
Nutrition Today
is an ASN official partner publication, helping nutrition professionals clear a pathway through today’s maze of fad diets and cure-all claims by easy to read, authoritative reviews. The journal features solicited and submitted original articles, reviews of nutrition research findings, and summaries of symposia.
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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
(AJCN)
February 2020, 111(2)
Editor's Choice Articles:
- Neuhouser ML. Red and processed meat: more with less? Am J Clin Nutr 2020(2); 111: 252–5
- Vanderhout SM, Aglipay M, Torabi N, Jüni P, da Costa BR, Birken CS, O'Connor DL, Thorpe KE, Maguire JL. Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood overweight: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 2020(2); 111:266–279.
- Koutsos A, Riccadonna S, Ulaszewska MM, Franceschi P, Trošt K, Galvin A, Braune T, Fava F, Perenzoni D, Mattivi F, Tuohy KM, Lovegrove JA. Two apples a day lower serum cholesterol and improve cardiometabolic biomarkers in mildly hypercholesterolemic adults: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2020(2); 111:307–18,
- Ohbe H, Jo T, Matsui H, Fushimi K, Yasunaga H. Early enteral nutrition in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a propensity score–matched analysis using a nationwide inpatient database in Japan. Am J Clin Nutr 2020(2); 111: 378–84.
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The Journal of Nutrition
(JN)
February 2020, 150(2)
Editor's Choice Articles:
- Retinol isotope dilution in a super-child study design allows determination of whole body kinetics and vitamin A stores. The results of a study to determine retinol kinetics and total body vitamin A stores in children from three countries. Ford JL, Green JB, Haskell MJ, Ahmad SM, Cordero DIM, Oxley A, Engle-Stone R, Lietz G, Green MH. Use of model-based compartmental analysis and a super-child design to study whole-body retinol kinetics and vitamin A total body stores in children from 3 lower-income countries. J Nutr 2020(2);150:411–8. Commentary by Tanumihardjo SA. The dawn of a new era in vitamin A assessment. J Nutr 2020(2);150:185–7.
- Maternal hematologic status at delivery can be negatively affected by prenatal zinc and vitamin A supplements. Based on potential adverse interactions and similar absorption and transport mechanisms, there are concerns about co-supplementation with zinc, vitamin A, and iron. Noor RA, Abioye AI, Darling AM, Hertzmark E, Aboud S, Premji Z, Mugusi FM, Duggan C, Sudfeld CR, Spiegelman D, Fawzi W. Prenatal zinc and vitamin A reduce the benefit of iron on maternal hematologic and micronutrient status at delivery in Tanzania. J Nutr 2020(2); 150:240–8
- Socioeconomic status is a major contributor to underweight and overweight in India. The results of a study conducted to ascertain factors for malnutrition contributing both to underweight and overweight in women and adolescents. Young MF, Nguyen P, Tran LM, Avula R, Menon P. A double edged sword? Improvements in economic conditions over a decade in India led to declines in undernutrition as well as increases in overweight among adolescents and women. J Nutr 2020(2);150:364–72.
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Advances in Nutrition
(AN)
January 2020, 11(1)
Featured Articles:
- Palmnäs et al. believe “much more work is needed to investigate whether responses to particular diets and dietary items are indeed metabotype-specific and whether diets tailored for metabotypes could lead to health improvements that are clinically meaningful.” If so, “finding easily measured biomarkers of metabotypes is our highest priority, to allow the tailoring of diets for optimal prevention at a large scale.”
- Which is better: full-fat or non-fat dairy? According to Hirahatake et al., “the current state of the evidence…lacks compelling support for the recommendation to consume only low-fat and fat-free dairy and avoid full- and reduced-fat dairy foods to support cardiometabolic health.” In fact, studies suggest that full-fat fermented dairy may be protective against cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Current Developments in Nutrition
(CDN)
February 2020, 5(2)
Featured Article:
- Meta-analyses have reported higher levels of coffee consumption to be associated with lower mortality. On the other hand, some scientific reviews have linked coffee consumption to increased risks for lung cancer and hypertension. Given these inconsistencies, Thomas et al. critically evaluated the methods and analyses of cohort studies investigating coffee and mortality. In particular, the authors sought to adjust for possible confounding factors such as smoking, diet, and alcohol. According to the review’s findings, “consuming one to five cups of coffee per day was related to lower mortality among never smokers, in studies that adjusted for pack-years of smoking, and in studies adjusting for healthy and unhealthy foods.” The authors did note that possible reduced health benefits for coffee with added sugar have not been adequately investigated.
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Highlights from Other Journals
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