Dietary assessments and biomarkers of intake and health

Short description of the course

The initial three days of the course will encompass lectures and practical work focused on various issues related to dietary assessments and calculations. On the first day, students will be introduced to novel, digital dietary assessment methodologies and will have the opportunity to test these tools hands-on. Day two will provide a comprehensive presentation on the assessment of sustainable diets. On the third day, the course will delve into energy adjustments and substitution models for nutritional studies. The last day of the course will focus on use of metabolomics in human dietary intervention studies. The students will be introduced to metabolomics and how this methodology can be used to identify novel biomarkers of dietary intake and understanding metabolic effects of diet.