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Nutrition and Disease
The Nutrition and Disease Group focuses on cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, gastro-intestinal diseases and obesity. Our societal mission is to decrease the risk of (chronic) disease and improve the health of those with a disease through better nutrition. Our scientific mission is to conduct interdisciplinary human observational and experimental research on nutrition in disease aetiology, during treatment and for prognosis.
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We contribute to several bachelor and master programmes.
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Bowel cancer: Coffee drinkers who have four cups a day much less likely to die or see illness recur
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Associations between low- and high-fat dairy intake and recurrence risk in people with stage I–III colorectal cancer differ by sex and primary tumour location
International Journal of Cancer (2024), Volume: 155, Issue: 5 - ISSN 0020-7136 - p. 828-838.