My main research focus is nutrition in early phases of life ranging from preconception, through pregnancy, childhood and adolescence in relation to health outcomes. Assessing dietary intake, developing interventions to improve diet of mother, child and adolescent in different settings as school and kindergarten, and investigating associations between intake and health and learning outcomes are core activities in my research and in the Priority Research Centre of Life Course Nutrition, which I lead. This Centre has in addition several research approaches to school meal, school food , the school subject Food and Health, and sustainability. I
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Maternal and child nutrition
Diet in infancy and childhood
Dietary assessment methods
Food neophobia
Food variety
Pleasure of eating
Healthy and sustainable diet
Food parenting
Social inequalities and diet
Cooking and health
Changing dietary habits
Research Centre
Leader Priority Research Centre Lifecourse Nutrition
Projects:
Nutrition Now
PREPARED
PRECONDIET
EATWELL
The School Meal Project
Fit for Delivery
New Nordic diet adherence and pregnancy health
Food for Infants
Barns matmot
Healthy and Sustainable Lifestyle
Early Food for Future Health
Fostering healthy food habits
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