Dr. Elissa Epel gave a talk at the National Academy of Sciences Food Forum, on Nutrition and Mental Health. This webinar explored the relationship between nutrition and dietary patterns and the aging brain. Speakers discussed an overview of the dimensions of cognitive health, nutrition and specific nutrients for cognitive function, and the relationship between nutrition and mental health in older adults.

Sugar Science experts Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH; Dean Schillinger, MD; and Cristin E. Kearns, DDS, MBA from UCSF share the latest research findings on sugar and its impact on health at the UCSF’s Living Well initiative. 

The speakers make up the team of SugarScience.org, an organization at UCSF made up of uniquely qualified scientists from a wide spectrum of medical research specialties in some of the nation's top universities, including UCSF, UC Davis and Emory University. 

May 6, 2015

Sugar scientist and UCSF professor of health policy Laura Schmidt questions whether consumers really do have freedom of choice – and what policymakers can learn from corporations in nudging consumers toward healthier behaviors in her 2016 TEDMED Lecture. 

Jul 7, 2016

An increasing number of scientific studies suggest that food, like drugs or alcohol, can have addictive qualities. Food addiction is a disease which causes loss of control over the ability to stop eating certain foods. Dr. Ashley Mason gives a lecture about food addiction and three people share their personal experiences and how they came through at the COAST Lecture series "Science Behind Optimal Metabolic Health and Nutrition: Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years."

March 13, 2018