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Research group on Nutrition and Obesity

 

Description:

Recognised by the Basque Government as a research group of excellence within the Basque university system. Member of CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn), a network of biomedical research centres funded by the Institute of Health Carlos III.

Teaching:

The group's members teach Graduate Degree courses in Pharmacy, Human Nutrition and Dietetics and Food Technology, and Post-Graduate Degree courses in Nutrition and Health, Healthy Ageing and Quality of Life and Public Health at the University of the Basque Country.

Research:

These are our lines of research:

  1. The effect of bio-active molecules on obesity, resistance to insulin and fatty liver disease.
  2. The Mediterranean diet. We are participating in the Predimed and Predimed-Plus trials.
  3. Dietary habits.
  4. Search of new bio-markers for diagnosis, prognosis, and response to dietary treatments.

Services:

Consultation on novel ingredients and functional foods.

Consumer surveys on food in different population groups.

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