Current Novel Research Efforts
- Promotion of healthy and sustainable diets to reduce chronic disease.
- Dietary approaches that do not require dietary self-monitoring, such as the vegan and vegetarian diets.
- Discovering ways to help people eat healthier, lose weight, and prevent chronic disease.
- Quantitative evaluation of consequences and determinants of nutrition status.
- Nutritional assessment for epidemiologic studies.
- Development of methods to study nutritional assessment.
- DIDACTIC: Dissemination and Implementation of a Diet and Activity Community Trial in Churches.
- Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Risk of Cancer Mortality in Women.
- Developing the Dietary Inflammatory Index for Clinical Application.
- Vitamin D and Related Genes, Race and Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness.
- Diet and Activity Community Trial: High-Risk Colon Polyps.
- Dietary Inflammatory Index and Risk of Breast and Colorectal Cancers.
- Role of Genetic and Dietary Factors in Breast Cancer Risk: Study of a Population in Demographic Transition.
- Epigenetics and Diet in the Carcinogenesis Process.
- A Documentary Film About the Implementation of the Right Choice, Healthy Start Farmers Market.
Associated Affiliate Scholars
- Adams, Swann, Ph.D.
- Armstead, Cheryl, Ph.D.
- Davis, Mark, Ph.D.
- Davis, Rachel, Ph.D.
- Frongillo, Edward, Ph.D.
- Hebert, James, Ph.D.
- Liese, Angela, Ph.D.
- Turner-McGrievy, Brie, Ph.D., RD
- Steck, Susan, Ph.D.
- Wilson-King, Dawn, Ph.D.
- Wippold, Guillermo, Ph.D.
- Wirth, Michael, Ph.D.
- Adams E, Brickhouse T, Dugger R, Bean M. Patterns Of Food Security And Dietary Intake During The First Half Of The Child Tax Credit Expansion. Health Affairs. 2022; 41:5. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01864
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Au LE, Arnold CD, Ritchie LD, Frongillo EA. The Infant Diet Quality Index predicts dietary and adiposity outcomes in U.S. children 2-4 years old. The Journal of Nutrition. Published online February 4, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.01.037
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Bernhart JA, Turner-McGrievy GM, DuBois KE, Rudisill C, Okpara N, Wilcox S, et al. Community Health Worker Implementation and Cost Analysis of a Plant-based Nutrition Program. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published online February 2, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2023.12.009
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Choi MK, Park YMM, Shivappa N, Steck SE, Hebert JR, Merchant AT, et al. Inflammatory potential of diet and risk of mortality in normal-weight adults with central obesity. Clinical Nutrition. 2023;42(2):208-215. doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2022.11.019
- Chwyl C, Wright N, Turner-McGrievy GM, Butryn ML, Forman EM. Remotely Delivered Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Using an Ad Libitum Plant-Based Diet: Pilot Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Results. JMIR Form Res 2022;6(6):e37414. doi: 10.2196/37414
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Crawford B, Steck SE, Sandler DP, Merchant AT, Woo JMP, Park YMM. Dietary patterns, socioeconomic disparities, and risk of type 2 diabetes in the Sister Study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2023;204. doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2023.110906
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DuBois KE, Blake CE, Rudisill C, Harrison SE, Wirth MD, Hébert JR. Ulcerative Colitis Is Associated With Diet-related Inflammation and Physical Activity in the IBD Partners E-cohort. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Published online August 5, 2023:izad139. doi:10.1093/ibd/izad139
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Farrell ET, Wirth MD, McLain AC, Hurley TG, Hebert JR, et al. Associations between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Sleep Metrics in the Energy Balance Study (EBS). Nutrients. 2023;15(2):419. doi:10.3390/nu15020419
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Ho FK, Wirth MD, Parra-Soto S, Hebert JR, et al. Dose-response associations of dietary inflammatory potential with health outcomes: A prospective cohort study of 198,265 UK Biobank participants. Current Problems in Cardiology. Published online April 29, 2023:101774. doi:10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2023.101774
- Omofuma OO, Steck SE, Olshan AF, et al.The association between meat and fish intake by preparation methods and breast cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS). Breast Cancer Res Treat 193, 187–201 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-022-06555-x.
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Shieh A, Karlamangla AS, Huang MH, Wirth MD, Hebert JR, et al. Dietary Inflammatory Index and Fractures in Midlife Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Published online February 13, 2023:dgad051. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgad051
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Silva AR, Guandalini V, Pereira T, Zhao L, Wirth MD, Hébert JR, et al. Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index and Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Multicenter Case-Control Study in Brazil. Nutrients. 2023;15:2867. doi:10.3390/nu15132867
- Truman SC, Wirth MD, Adams SA, Turner-McGrievy GM, Reiss KE, Hébert JR. Meal timing, distribution of macronutrients, and inflammation among African-American women: A cross-sectional study Chronobiology International, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2022.2053702
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Turner-McGrievy GM, Wilson MJ, Carswell J, Okpara N, Wilcox S, Liese AD, et al. A 12-Week Randomized Intervention Comparing the Healthy US, Mediterranean, and Vegetarian Dietary Patterns of the US Dietary Guidelines for Changes in Body Weight, Hemoglobin A1c, Blood Pressure, and Dietary Quality among African American Adults. The Journal of Nutrition. Published online December 23, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.11.020
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Turner-McGrievy GM, Wilcox S, Frongillo EA, Kim Y, Okpara N, Wilson M. Differences in dietary acceptability, restraint, disinhibition, and hunger among African American participants randomized to either a vegan or omnivorous soul food diet. Appetite. 2024;196:107280. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107280
- Turner-McGrievy GM, Wirth MD, Bernhart JA, Aydin H. The Fasting and Shifted Timing (FAST) of Eating Study: A pilot feasibility randomized crossover intervention assessing the acceptability of three different fasting diet approaches. 2022, 106135.
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Wirth MD, Turner-McGrievy GM, Shivappa N, Murphy EA, Hébert JR. Interaction between meal-timing and dietary inflammatory potential on cardiometabolic endpoints. Annals of Epidemiology. 2023;85:132. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.06.012
- Woolford S, D'Angelo S, Mancano G, Curtis EM, Ashai S, Shivappa N, Hébert J, Crozier SR, Phillips C, Suderman M, Relton C, Cooper C, Harvey NC. Associations between late pregnancy Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and offspring bone mass: a meta-analysis of the Southampton Women's Survey (SWS) and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). J Bone Miner Res. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.4623
- Wrottesley SV, Shivappa N, Prioreschi A, Hebert JR, et al.Anti-inflammatory diets reduce the risk of excessive gestational weight gain in urban South Africans from the Soweto First 1000-Day Study (S1000). Eur J Nutr (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-022-02931-x
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Zhao L, Clay-Gilmour A, Zhang J, Zhang X, Steck SE. Higher ultra-processed food intake is associated with adverse liver outcomes: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank participants. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024;119(1):49-57. doi:10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.10.014
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Zhao L, Jin L, Petrick JL, Steck S, et al. Specific botanical groups of fruit and vegetable consumption and liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality: a prospective cohort study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Published online December 22, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.12.004
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Zhao L, Kase B, Zheng J, Steck SE. Dietary Patterns and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies. Curr Nutr Rep. Published online April 25, 2023. doi:10.1007/s13668-023-00469-w
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Zhao L, Wirth MD, Petermann-Rocha F, Hebert JR, et al. Diet-Related Inflammation Is Associated with Worse COVID-19 Outcomes in the UK Biobank Cohort. Nutrients. 2023;15(4):884. doi:10.3390/nu15040884
- Zheng J, Zhao L, Dong J, Chen H, Li D, Zhang X, Hassan MM, Steck SE, Li X, Xiang Y-B, Wang H. The role of dietary factors in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease to hepatocellular carcinoma progression: A systematic review. Clinical Nutrition. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2022.08.018