[{"_id":"project:8921","_type":"project","abstract":{"sv":"InSyNC – Integrating Sustainability in Nutrition Care är en nationell forskarskola i samarbete mellan samtliga tre universitet i Sverige med examensrätt för dietistprogrammet. Detta är den första forskarskolan någonsin i Sverige inom nutrition och dietetik.InSyNC syftar till att säkerställa kompetensförsörjningen för en snabbt växande yrkeskår med i nuläget vakanta tjänster på många håll i landet. Söktrycket är högt på dietistutbildningen. Antalet disputerade dietister är få, och det är svårt att få meriterade sökande till lärartjänster.Dietister efterfrågas idag inom såväl hälsofrämjande arbete som högspecialiserad sjukvård. Förebyggande och behandling av obesitas och övervikt utgör en stor del av dietistens arbete, precis som sjukdomsrelaterad undernäring. Maten spelar en viktig roll i utvecklingen av en hållbar framtid och forskarskolans målsättning är att verka för en hållbar hälso- och sjukvård genom temat ”Att integrera hållbarhet i nutritionsvården”, med tre underteman:Nutrition och ätande genom livetNutrition i hälsofrämjande arbeteTillgång till högkvalitativ nutritionsvård via digitalisering och innovation.Uppsala universitet leder forskarskolan i samarbete med Umeå universitet och Göteborgs universitet, Sahlgrenska akademin. Elva doktorander kommer att antas. Samverkan finns med en internationell samt en nationell referensgrupp. Kurser om totalt 15 hp ges i samarbete mellan universiteten. Gemensamma årliga symposier organiseras, och utöver detta äger digitala seminarier rum flera gånger per år.InSyNC kommer att höja kvaliteten på samtliga dietistutbildningar i Sverige genom att alstra och integrera ny kunskap inom områden som hälsofrämjande arbete, digitalisering och innovation samt specialiserad nutritionsvård. En ny generation lärare kommer att utveckla såväl forskningsmässig och pedagogisk skicklighet som ämnesmässig kunskap inom nutrition och dietetik, samt tränas i att tillämpa ett hållbarhetsperspektiv genom alla dessa områden.","en":"InSyNC (Integrating Sustainability into Nutrition Care) is the first national doctoral programme ever in dietetics. This is a collaboration between all three Swedish universities with entitlement to award professional qualifications for dietitians: Uppsala University, Umeå University and University of Gothenburg.Dietitians, as experts in evidence-based nutrition care, are needed to an increasing extent in both health promotion work and highly specialized healthcare. The main theme for the InSyNC programme is to integrate sustainability into nutrition care, with three focus areas:Nutrition and eating from a life course perspectiveNutrition in health promotion effortsAccess to high quality essential nutrition care through digitalization and innovation.Uppsala University coordinate the InSyNC, to which eleven doctoral students will be admitted. Courses on 15 ECTS are held in collaboration between the universities. Joint annual symposia are organized, and in addition digital seminars take place several times per year. National and international advisory boards are engaged.InSyNC will raise the quality of all dietetic educations in Sweden by building and integrating new knowledge in areas such as health promotion, digitalization and innovation as well as specialized nutrition care. A new generation of teachers will develop research and teaching skills, expertise in nutrition and dietetics, and will be trained in applying a sustainability perspective through all these areas."},"project_id":"2022-06295_VR","identifier_short":"2022-06295","dates":{"start_date":"2022-12-01","end_date":"2027-11-30"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":2,"id":"202100-5208","sv":"Vetenskapsrådet","en":"Swedish Research Council"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"_id":"authority-person:17919","orcid":"0000-0001-6428-5701","name":"Lövestam, Elin","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]}]},{"other_personnel":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-9122-7240","name":"Winkvist, Anna","affiliation":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]},{"orcid":"0000-0002-4649-0653","name":"Sjöström, Elisabeth","affiliation":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]}]}],"tags":[{"_id":11689,"id":"30301","sv":"Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi","en":"Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy"},{"_id":11690,"id":"30302","sv":"Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi","en":"Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology"},{"_id":11692,"id":"30304","sv":"Näringslära","en":"Nutrition and Dietetics"}],"titles":{"sv":"InSyNC - Att integrera ett hållbarhetsperspektiv i nutritionsvården. En nationell forskarskola.","en":"InSyNC – Integrating Sustainability in Nutrition Care National Doctoral Programme"},"total_funding":"37000500","type_of_awards":{"sv":"Bidrag till forskningsmiljö","en":"Grant to research environment"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:2055453","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"title":"High proportion of young children are vitamin D sufficient after expansion of Sweden's mandatory fortification but dairy products also contribute to a high climate impact","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hesselink","given":"Andre","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Gothenburg, Inst Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, Dept Internal Med & Clin Nutr, Box 459, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Winkvist","given":"Anna","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Gothenburg, Inst Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, Dept Internal Med & Clin Nutr, Box 459, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Lindroos","given":"Anna-Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-4748-4300","localId":"annli546","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Gothenburg, Inst Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, Dept Internal Med & Clin Nutr, Box 459, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.; Swedish Food Agcy, Dept Risk & Benefit Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden."},{"id":"1752","name":"Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Moraeus","given":"Lotta","affiliation":[{"name":"Swedish Food Agcy, Dept Risk & Benefit Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Bjermo","given":"Helena","affiliation":[{"name":"Swedish Food Agcy, Dept Risk & Benefit Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Lignell","given":"Sanna","affiliation":[{"name":"Swedish Food Agcy, Dept Risk & Benefit Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Bärebring","given":"Linnea","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Gothenburg, Inst Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, Dept Internal Med & Clin Nutr, Box 459, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Hallström","given":"Elinor","affiliation":[{"name":"RISE Res Inst Sweden, Dept Food Res & Innovat, Unit Sustainable Food Consumpt, Lund, Sweden."}]},{"family":"Augustin","given":"Hanna","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Gothenburg, Inst Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, Dept Internal Med & Clin Nutr, Box 459, S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden."}]}],"abstract":"Background: Sweden expanded its mandatory vitamin D fortification program in 2018 addressing high rates of insufficient vitamin D status and low intake. This study aimed to assess vitamin D status among young children post-expansion, evaluate its determinants, and identify main vitamin D sources and their climate impact.Methods: Dietary intake among 18-month-olds (18mo, n = 1074) and 4-year-olds (4yo, n = 746) were obtained from the Swedish national survey Riksmaten Young Children 2021-24 based on two non-consecutive 24-hour food records. Intake of vitamin D from drops (μg/d) was also recorded. Individual vitamin D intakes were adjusted using the Multiple Source Method to reflect habitual intake. Blood concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) were provided for a subset (18mo, n = 281; 4yo, n = 270). Climate impact was expressed as greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO<sub>2</sub> eq), using life cycle assessment data from the Research Institutes of Sweden. Associations between 25OHD and plausible determinants were analyzed with linear regression.Results: 16% of 18mo and 61% of 4yo had total vitamin D intakes (including diet and drops) below the average requirement, 7.5 μg/d. None were deficient (25OHD &lt; 30 nmol/l), and 7% of 18mo and 4% of 4yo were insufficient (&lt; 50 nmol/l). 25OHD was positively associated with dietary vitamin D intake and vitamin D from drops, and inversely associated with blood sampling during winter and parents' birth country (≥1 parent born outside Nordics). Main vitamin D sources for 18mo were vitamin D drops and fortified foods: dairy, porridge and cereal drinks; and for 4yo, fortified dairy and fat spreads. Dairy was a large contributor to diet-related GHGEs (18mo: 10%, 4yo: 16%), whereas fortified fat spreads and plant-based dairy alternatives were effective sources of vitamin D, providing the highest vitamin D concentrations per kg CO<sub>2</sub> eq.Conclusions: A high proportion of young children in Sweden are vitamin D sufficient, with dietary vitamin D intake, vitamin D drops, and blood sampling season being major determinants. Fortified dairy is an important dietary source of vitamin D, but a shift to fortified plant-based alternatives would reduce diet-related climate impact and should be explored in future research.","DOI":"10.1186/s12937-026-01318-6","PMID":"41917925","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105035507053","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-584730","volume":"25","number":"41","container-title":"Nutrition Journal","ISSN":"1475-2891","keyword":"Micronutrients; Dietary intake; 25-hydroxyvitamin D; Greenhouse gas emissions; Fortification policy","publisher":"Springer Nature","published":[{"raw":"2026-04-24T11:15:28.766+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2026-04-24T11:15:28.835+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2026-04-24T11:15:28.766+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-584730"},{"id":"diva2:1967133","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"title":"The associations between biological markers of aging and appetite loss across adulthood : retrospective case–control data from the INSPIRE-T study","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Turesson","given":"Annelie","ORCID":"0009-0009-1001-1452","localId":"anntu895","affiliation":[{"name":"IHU HealthAge, Toulouse, France"},{"id":"1752","name":"Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Koochek","given":"Afsaneh","ORCID":"0000-0002-0142-4724","localId":"afsko376","affiliation":[{"id":"1752","name":"Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Nydahl","given":"Margaretha","ORCID":"0000-0001-7427-4846","localId":"mny24448","affiliation":[{"id":"1752","name":"Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kostvetenskap"}]},{"family":"Lemaitre","given":"Jean-Marc"},{"family":"Bensadoun","given":"Paul"},{"family":"Martinez","given":"Laurent O."},{"family":"Guyonnet","given":"Sophie"},{"family":"Rolland","given":"Yves"},{"family":"Vellas","given":"Bruno"},{"family":"De Souto Barreto","given":"Philipe"}],"abstract":"Appetite loss is a common clinical condition in older adulthood, but how this condition associates with biological aging remains unknown. The present study aims to examine the associations of biological aging markers with appetite loss in community-dwelling people aged 21 to 102 years. This retrospective case–control study used baseline data from the INSPIRE-T cohort in Toulouse, France. Each of the 49 cases with appetite loss was sex- and age-matched to two controls without appetite loss (<i>n</i> = 147; median age of 79 years, interquartile range: 19.5; 67% women). Appetite loss was assessed using a single yes–no question from the World Health Organization´s Integrated Care for Older People screening tool. Biomarkers (first- and second-generation DNA methylation-based epigenetic clocks [Horvath, Hannum, PhenoAge, and GrimAge], the inflammatory aging clock iAge, and Adenosine triphosphatase inhibitory factor 1—IF1) were derived from blood samples. Logistic regression analyzed the associations of these markers with appetite loss. In fully adjusted models, accelerated aging using GrimAge was the only biomarker associated with appetite loss (Odds Ratio = 1.21, 95% Confidence Interval: 1.03, 1.43). When stratified by age (≤ 65 years vs. &gt; 65 years) and sex, this association remained significant only in individuals over 65 years and men. Future research is needed to explore the potential mechanisms involved, as well as how other biological drivers of aging (e.g., cell senescence, deregulated nutrient sensing) relate to appetite loss.","DOI":"10.1007/s11357-025-01691-w","PMID":"40347354","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105004916442","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-559051","volume":"48","page":"859-870","container-title":"GeroScience","ISSN":"2509-2723","keyword":"Biological aging; Longevity; Aging clocks; Anorexia of aging","publisher":"Springer Nature","published":[{"raw":"2025-06-11T11:05:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-06-11T11:05:42.462+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2026-04-20T13:17:03.219+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-559051"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:8921"}]}]