Replacing your sugar-sweetened beverages with water may aid weight loss! By Hisyam Mohsin, Graduate Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Virginia Tech According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), from 2007-2010, the … Continue reading
Hydration and cognitive function are closely related By Yanhong He, PhD student in the Food Science and Technology Department, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech Dr. Benjamin Katz, assistant professor in the department … Continue reading
WaterINTERface IGEP Student Presenter: Samantha Kostelnik Advisor: Dr. Brenda Davy GRAD 5414: Water for Health Seminar Written by Kayla Wunderlich, graduate student in Human, Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise (HNFE) Samantha Kostelnik, doctoral student in HNFE, … Continue reading
Evaluation of a Method to Rapidly Assess Beverage Intake in Collegiate Athletes Samantha Kostelnik, PhD student of Water IGEP and Department of Human, Nutrition, Food & Exercise at Virginia Tech. During the last week of … Continue reading
—-by Georgianna Mann, Ph.D., Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, member of Water IGEP, Virginia Tech. More than one-third of children in the United States are classified as overweight or obese. Children aren’t consuming the recommended … Continue reading
![[Student Interviews] Dr. Shaun Riebl](https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/water/files/2015/05/IMG_0389-Copy-300x130.jpg "[Student Interviews] Dr. Shaun Riebl")
Shaun Riebl comes across as soft-spoken, delightful and someone with a keen attention to detail, which isn’t surprising because he defended his PhD in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise a short while ago. He was … Continue reading
A new study from Dr. Brenda Davy (Associate Professor – HNFE, former director – Water IGEP) and colleagues titled “Associations Among Chronic Disease Status, Participation in Federal Nutrition Programs, Food Insecurity, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and … Continue reading
![[Student Interviews] Georgianna Mann (HNFE) – From water research and Graduate school to training horses and everything in between](https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/water/files/2014/06/IMG_3155-300x130.jpg "[Student Interviews] Georgianna Mann (HNFE) – From water research and Graduate school to training horses and everything in between")
This is the first in a series of one-on-one QnA sessions with Water IGEP students and faculty. While awareness of water issues worldwide is essential and often the focus of our published articles, a behind-the-scenes … Continue reading