CTRC Nutrition and Energy Balance Core

Overview of Services

Nutrition Core:

The Nutrition Core provides scientific nutrition expertise and specialized metabolic food service to the research community. The Nutrition Core team aims to provide high quality services while expanding its horizons to emerging and innovative areas of research.
We have two groups of professionals:

• Scientists and nutritionists with extensive experience in nutrition and metabolism research
• Food service staff trained to prepare and distribute meals from our commercial kitchen

Only CTRC-approved protocols can request Nutrition Services. All services are provided as fee-for-service resources.
Nutrition Services offered-

• Assessment of dietary intake, both habitual intake and during protocol interventions, using standardized tools like food records, 24h recalls, and validated food frequency questionnaires.
• Hunger and satiety assessment and/or measured ad libitum feeding
• Designing simple to complex research diets and specialized food products based on specific study requirements
• Specialized food service operation to ensure accurate meal preparation, measurement and dispensation
• Research, development and testing of new food products
• Growth, body composition, and resting metabolic rate (RMR) measurements in children
• Consultation on study design, American dietary norms, and ways to achieve specific dietary intervention targets
• Protocol-specific dietary counseling and instruction

Leadership

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

Links for Nutrition Core:

• To access our website please click here.
• For diet research pick-up times please click here.
• For the holiday and closure schedule please click here.
• For nutrition outpatient scheduling instructions please click here.
• For nutrition core pricing for services please click here.

For information or to request services from Energy Balance please contact Jere Hamilton at Jere.hamilton@ucdenver.edu

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