The hope of improving blood sugar levels by simply switching from the usual bread to specially enriched oat bread has been dashed. An international research team involving Prof Dr Anette Buyken and her "Public Health Nutrition" group at Paderborn University has shown that simply changing the daily bread is not enough to improve blood sugar levels: Swapping your daily bread alone is not enough to sustainably improve blood sugar control in people…
GlyCoBrain study enters the next round
Since July 2024, the DFG-funded GlyCoBrain Study has been conducted at the Institute of Nutrition, Consumption and Health as a joint project of the Public Health Nutrition and Nutritional Science groups. The aim is to better understand the relationships between blood glucose response, cognition and chronotype.
The first project phase was successfully completed at the end of January 2025 with the screening…
On 11 June, the ECG Institute will once again be taking a trip to the Strate private brewery in Detmold! If you are interested, please register with Dr Jana Knies!
It is with deep sadness and great respect that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Lothar Schneider, who passed away on 24 January 2024 at the age of 87. Prof Dr Schneider leaves behind an impressive academic legacy that will stay with us for a long time to come.
Prof. Dr. Schneider was born on 7 April 1937 in Stöblitz near Cottbus. After studying economics at the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen, he completed his doctoral dissertation on…
As part of the seminar "Households in the area of conflict between consumer protection and consumer responsibility", Mr Bozidar Suhan and Ms Dorina Pedazus from the NRW Consumer Advice Centre will give a presentation on the project "Consumer protection in rural regions for young people". They will show how young people between the ages of 12 and 27 are sensitised to consumer issues (including everyday digital consumption) in youth education.
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Im Rahmen des Seminars „Haushalte im Spannungsfeld von Verbraucherschutz und Verbraucherverantwortung“ halten Herr Bozidar Suhan und Frau Dorina Pedazus von der Verbraucherzentrale NRW einen Vortrag über das Projekt „Verbraucherschutz in ländlichen Regionen für junge Menschen“. Sie zeigen auf, wie junge Menschen zwischen zwölf und 27 Jahr in der Jugendbildung für Verbraucherthemen (u.a. digitaler Konsumalltag) sensibilisiert werden.
Ansprechpart…
While, on the one hand, housekeeping companies express a lack of suitable trainees and professionals in the occupation of housekeeper, on the other hand, refugees are looking for a traineeship or job. The question arises as to which factors are helpful in bringing together the interests of companies and potential employees ¬ from the refugees' perspective.This is precisely where a study by Paderborn University comes in (see also information…
Kick-off: EHW 4.0 on 19 October 2023 at 4:30 pm
Nutrition and Home Economics 4.0 - teacher training for vocational schools: digital and language-based
Online event for students, teachers and lecturers
