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Nutritional Sciences

Ahmed El-Sohemy

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Caffeine
  • Coffee
  • Genetic testing
  • Microbiome
  • Nutrigenetics
  • Nutrigenomics
  • Nutrition
  • Personalized nutrition

Office: (416) 946-5776
Mobile: (416) 669-8791
Website
Email: a.el.sohemy@utoronto.ca
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Carol Greenwood

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Nutrition cognition and aging

Office: 416-978-4261
Home: 416-785-2500 ext. 2785
Website
Email: carol.greenwood@utoronto.ca
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David Jenkins

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • carbohydrate/fibre metabolism
  • Clinical trials
  • Diet and cancer
  • Diet and disease
  • Diet and environmental concerns
  • Dietary portfolio for cholesterol lowering
  • functional foods and nutraceuticals
  • nutrition in diseased populations
  • plant proteins and health
  • Plant-based diets
  • postprandial hypertension

Office: (416) 946-3654
Website
Email: david.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Reinhold Vieth

Professor Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

  • Biochemical markers of calcium and bone metabolism and osteoporosis
  • Clinical nutrition
  • Role of vitamin D in health and well being
  • safety and efficacy of vitamin D
  • Sunshine or ultraviolet exposure, balancing health and risk
  • Vitamin D in the prevention of osteoporosis and cancer

Office: 416-992-9389
Home: 416-469-4772
Mobile: 416-992-9389
Email: reinhold.vieth@utoronto.ca
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Valerie Tarasuk

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Food and nutrition
  • Food and poverty
  • Food banks
  • Food fortification in Canada
  • Food insecurity
  • Food policy
  • Nutrition inequities
  • Nutrition labelling

Office: (416) 978-0618
Website
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
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