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Centre for Nutritional Studies School of Public Health & Primary Care Faculty of Medicine The |
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Director: Prof Jean Woo MA MD (Cantab) MD BChir, FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), FRACP, FHKAM(Medicine), FFPH Professor of Medicine Head, Division of Geriatrics Department of Medicine & Therapeutics
Manager: Dr Mandy Sea BSc, MPhil, PhD Centre Manager & Principal Nutritionist Centre for Nutritional Studies
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History The Centre for Nutritional Studies was established for 12 years. It represents a successful inter-faculty and inter-departmental collaborative group studying various aspects of nutrition in children, adults and the elderly, in the community as well as hospitals and long term residential care. The stimulus to the formation of the Centre was the award of the US Bristol-Myers Squibb Mead Johnson Unrestricted Grant in Nutrition for 5 years in 1997.
Apart from members obtaining competitive grants to carry out research, the Centre has successfully developed a social enterprise model to become self-sustainable in translating an effective lifestyle modification programme developed and evaluated as a research project, into a public service. This allowed continuous support of various research staff and projects on a regular basis to complement specific projects supported by competitive grants. |
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Ÿ To conduct research in nutrition, particularly in areas of concern in this region, covering the role of nutrition in the prevention of diseases, and nutritional aspects of acute and chronic diseases Ÿ To promote awareness of the importance nutrition among health care workers and the public Ÿ To interact with similar organizations in other countries, particularly the Asian Pacific
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Vision To apply the scientific founding to daily life of the public (e.g. weight management and nutritional advice to prevent chronic diseases) and to train the healthcare professionals on the relationship between nutrition and health |
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Current projects |
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The
investigation of parental attitude / belief, knowledge and practice on infant
and young child feeding in Hong Kong, collaboration with Family Health
Service of the Department of Health, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. |
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The association of food group intake and bone
loss in elderly Chinese population. |
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Glycemic index and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. |
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Lifestyle risk factors for colorectal cancer. |
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Research
grants and donations |
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2009-11 |
Health and Health Services Research Fund Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease and advanced liver fibrosis in |
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SK Yee Medical Foundation Healthy ageing through empowerment |
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MSD A Phase IIa randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to study the efficacy and safety of MK-0773 in patients with sarcopenia |
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Services Community Services |
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Provision of
Nutritional services to the Tung Wah Enhanced Home
and Community Care Services |
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Dietetic advice for local and overseas nursing homes |
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Dietetic advice for Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing |
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Low salt cooking competition (July 2006) |
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Anti-hypertension campaign |
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Supermarket Tour
Healthy cooking demonstration
Cadenza: Eating healthily and happily (26 April, 2009)
Childhood sport
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Public Services |
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In 2002, our centre aims for letting the public can use our dietetic services for improving their health by running lifestyle modification programme (LMP) which is based on the scientific findings and experience. LMP has been run for 7 years and there were about 7000 people used our service. For details please visit http://www.sph.cuhk.edu.hk/cns/cns_index.htm |
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Events |
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Symposium 10th Anniversary Symposium of Centre
for Nutritional Studies in conjunction with the Annual Symposium of the
School of Public Health: New Horizons in Nutrition & Public Health
(co-organized with Chinese Nutrition Society, Food and Nutritional Sciences
Programme, the Nethersole School of Nursing and the
Hong Kong Epidemiological Association) in 2007 |
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Press conference |
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Dining-Out will Increase the Risk of Overweight (17 Mar, 2008) |
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Factors that Reduce the Risk of Rebound Weight Gain (21 Jul, 2009) |
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Recent representative publications |
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Chan R, Lok K, Woo J.
Prostate cancer and
vegetable consumption. Mol Nutr Food Res
2009; 53: 201-216. |
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Woo J, Kwok T,
Leung J, Tang N. Dietary intake,
blood pressure and osteoporosis. J of Human Hypertension 2009; 23:
451-455. |
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Chan RSM, Woo J, Chan DCC, Lo DHS,
Cheung CSK. Bone mineral status
and its relation with dietary estimates of net endogenous acid production in
Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
British Journal of Nutrition 2008; 100: 1283-1290. |
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Wang AYM, Lam CWK, Sanderson JE, Wang M,
Chan HIS, Lui SF, Sea MMM, Woo J. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status and
cardiovascular outcomes in chronic peritoneal dialysis patients: a 3-y
prospective cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr 2008; 87: 1631-8. |
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Woo J, Cheung B, Ho S, Sham A, Lam TH. Influence of dietary pattern on the
development of overweight in a Chinese population. Eur J Clin Nutr 2008; 62: 480-487. |
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Chan RSM, Woo J, Chan DCC, Cheung
CSK, Lo DHS. Estimated net endogenous acid production and
intake of bone health-related nutrients in Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
Eur J Clin Nutr 2009; 63(4): 505-12. |
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Woo J, Lam CWK, Leung J, Lau WY, Lau E, Ling X, Xing XP,
Zhao XH, Skeaff CM, Bacon CJ, Rockell
JEP, Lambert A, Whiting SJ, Green TJ. Very high rates of vitamin D
insufficiency in women of child-bearing age living in |
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Zhang XH, Woo J, Heller RF. Increasing
dietary fish intake has contributed to decreasing mortality from CHD among
the older population in Hong Kong.
Public Health Nutr 2009;
12(8): 1248-53. |
