Developmental origins of adult health and disease.
Our invited review on the mechanisms that may link early nutrition to adult health and disease was recently published in Nutrition Reviews. Here’s the abstract and the paper is available […]
Nutritional status in Kenya and Zambia
Our projects on the use of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya and Zambia is proceeding to the intervention phase. We recently completed data collection on 500 households in both countries […]
Growth and the micro biome
Investigators who work in the area of famine relief and undernutrition understand well that not every intervention in effective in relieving the long-term effects of poor nutrition. While some are […]
Nutrition and Health in Africa
African-Indigenous Vegetables and Human Health in Eastern Africa It is estimated that 925 million of the world’s population are undernourished, 239 million (26%) of whom are inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa […]
Fulbright 2015-16
The beginning of May marked the end of my Fulbright grant to Brazil. This wonderful experience that was sponsored by the US Fulbright Commission and CAPES, a foundation in the […]
Is BMI an appropriate proxy for adiposity in children?
A diverse group of scientists and I recently published this new review paper that covers an important question of how to assess body mass and/or adiposity in children in population […]
Early-life famine and adult health
Here is a new chapter we wrote for an upcoming book, “Early-life famine and adult health” edited by Alexander Vaiserman, PhD at the Institute of Gerontology, Kiev, Ukraine and Lambert […]
Welcome, 2012.
Welcome to our website. There is plenty of information for readers to get a good overview of our research program, peruse some of our papers, stay update with our research […]
Hoffman Nutrition Research Program 