DTU NATIONAL FOOD INSTITUTE DTU National Food Institute
Henrik Dams Allé
Building 201, room 206
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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PRIMA participants held an Annual Meeting 07-08 September 2023
PRIMA participants held an Annual Meeting 29-30 August 2022
A research project led by the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, will generate more knowledge of the role gut microbiota plays when people react differently to the same diet. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded the project nearly 60 million Danish kroner.
Bacteria in the gut affect the risk of developing lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, conducts research in order to understand how bacteria in the gut affect our sensitivity to substances, which we are exposed to through our food.
A six-year-long, large-scale research cooperation has documented that a diet, which includes whole-grains helps to prevent type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Large study of the effects of eating a low-gluten diet has not prompted the researchers behind it to recommend that people eat a gluten-free diet—unless they suffer from coeliac disease or gluten intolerance.
Research into gut bacteria has exploded over the past ten years. Scientists are investigating the role these bacteria play for our health, including how they affect our weight.
When overweight adults exchange refined grain products – such as white bread and pasta – with whole grain varieties, they eat less, they lose weight and the amount of inflammation in their bodies decreases. These are some of the findings of a large Danish study headed by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark. The...
Mice that receive gut bacteria transplants from overweight humans are known to gain more weight than mice transplanted with gut bacteria from normal weight subjects, even when the mice are fed the same diet. A study from the National Food Institute confirms this finding while seeking new perspectives on the reasons behind this link.
The time it takes for ingested food to travel through the human gut – also called transit time – affects the amount of harmful degradation products produced along the way. This means that transit time is a key factor in a healthy digestive system. This is the finding of a study from the National Food Institute, Technical University of...
It is the transition to eating the family’s food and not the weight of the mother that has the greatest impact on the composition of gut bacteria in nine-month-old children. This is one of the findings from a study from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge about how...
The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, is hosting Professor Tine Rask Licht’s inaugural lecture on Friday 22 January 2016. Tine Rask Licht will give a lecture on background, status and prospects of her research in gut microbiology. The general aim of her research is to understand the relation between diet, gut microorganisms...
The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, invites you to Mathilde Bylov Kristensen’s PhD defence on the influence of early bacterial colonization on the development of the mouse immune system. The defence takes place on 26 May 2014 at 2pm.
The nutritional factor that has the greatest impact on the development of a child's gut flora is whether the child is breastfed, according to a new study by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen. The study shows that breastfeeding promotes the growth of beneficial lactic acid bacteria...