Focus on gastronomy, health, nutrition and New Nordic Diet in two new English-language MSc programmes - 22.04.2010

LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen have added two new research-based MSc programmes, in Gastronomy & Health and Human Nutrition, to its long list of English-language MSc programmes in the fields of food, the environment, natural resources and veterinary science. One of LIFE’s core competence areas is food and health, and LIFE is home to one of the world’s best researchers in the field of obesity and life style diseases.

 

For many years, scientists at LIFE have carried out research into food science and human nutrition and the influence of food on human health. LIFE’s research and education in these areas aim at furthering the development of foods which are safe and of a high quality in terms of their sensory and nutritional value.

 

In recent decades, the research has increasingly focussed on lifestyle diseases, such as obesity. This is based on the sad fact that all over the industrialised world, the prevalence of overweight and obesity, not least among children and adolescents, has increased dramatically in this period.

 

It is therefore not surprising that a new analysis from Thomson Reuters shows that one of LIFE’s prominent scientists in the field of obesity, Professor, MD Arne Astrup, head of Department of Human Nutrition at LIFE is among the world’s top five obesity researchers.

Professor Astrup is also heading a large research project, OPUS, into children’s health and wellbeing which focusses on a new eating concept, the New Nordic Diet, based on regional food products.

 

Results emerging from this research project as well as from other research into nutrition, gastronomy and health carried out at LIFE are being incorporated into the study programmes at LIFE, in particular the MSc programmes in Human Nutrition and Gastronomy & Health.

 

These two programmes have been conducted in Danish so far, but in line with the majority of MSc programmes at LIFE, the Gastronomy & Health and Human Nutrition MSc programmes will be in English as from September 2010.

 

The Gastronomy and Health programme combines knowledge about nutrition and food safety with gastronomy and consumer experience. The Human Nutrition programme gives students an insight into the effects of nutrition on health and disease, and provides them with a solid understanding of the social and cultural issues associated with foods and nutrition.

 

Read more about Human Nutrition and Gastromy and Health and the other MSc programmes in English at www.life.ku.dk/english.

 

Read more about the Thomson Reuters analysis and ranking within the field of obesity research.

 

For more information about the two English-language MSc programmes, Gastronomy & Health and Human Nutrition, please contact Associate Professor Michael Bom Frøst at

 

For more information about obesity research, please contact Head of Department of Human Nutrition, Professor Arne Astrup at

 

For more information about studying at LIFE, please contact .