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Southampton nutritionist wins European research award
19/07/2010

A nutritionist based at Southampton General Hospital has won European recognition for her research into how a mother’s lifestyle and background can affect her child’s diet.
Megan Jarman, of the University of Southampton’s Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, received the Louis Bonduelle Research Award and a prize of €10,000 to support her project.

As part of the Southampton Initiative for Health (SIH), a programme aimed at improving the diets of disadvantaged women and their families, Megan will investigate the influence of a mother’s diet, well being, education and parenting style, as well as the household mealtime environment, on children’s eating habits.

The SIH is one of the projects being undertaken at the city’s nutrition, diet and lifestyle biomedical research unit, a clinical research facility managed jointly by the National Institute of Health Research, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Southampton.

Taken from the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

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