On September 19th, the Münster University of Applied Sciences opened its competence center for nutrition and therapy. Center for Nutrition & Therapy (NuT). The NuT belongs to the interdisciplinary FH Department of Ecotrophology – Facility Management and was founded by Prof. Dr. Tobias Fischer and Prof. Dr. Anja Markant founded.
“In a unit like that of a competence center, we can bundle knowledge on the focus of nutrition and therapy in a more targeted manner,” said Markant. The structure makes it easier to work more directly with partners from science and business. The eight-person NuT team focuses on the nutrition of healthy and sick people. Current topics include the supply of nutrients, nutritional therapy for rare congenital metabolic diseases and alternative forms of nutrition with a focus on the ketogenic diet. In the laboratory for nutritional status and nutritional therapy as well as in the diet and test kitchen, intervention studies can be carried out and nutritional therapeutic approaches can be tested. Those interested can contact → www.fh-muenster.de/ernaehrung-therapie Find out more about the Competence Center for Nutrition & Therapy.
Department Dean Prof. Dr. Matthias Lamping highlighted the NuT as a further building block for the practical training of students at the university. The laboratories are used primarily in the bachelor’s degree program in Ecotrophology and the master’s degree program in Nutrition and Health.
In their presentations, three speakers discussed where applied nutrition research is headed. The demands of the Science Council for understandable science communication are being taken up very well with the new competence center, as Dr. Margareta Büning-Fesel, President of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, explained in her contribution. Dr. Andrea Lambeck from the Professional Association of Ecotrophology (VDOE). “We have to be louder,” said Lambeck in view of the often striking and sometimes more, sometimes less well-founded posts on social media about nutrition. Prof. Dr. In her pointed lecture, Hannelore Daniel, former chair of nutritional physiology at the Technical University (TU) of Munich, explained, among other things, how artificial intelligence affects research and teaching. Following Immanuel Kant, she concluded her contribution with an appeal to young people to still have the courage to use their own minds.
Source: FH Münster, Press release from 09/20/20
You can also find this article in ERNIHRUNGS UMSCHAU 11/2024 on page M621.
