Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Daily Consumption of Prunes and Cardiovascular Health in Older Men- A Randomized Clinical Trial" in the journal Academia Nutrition and Dietetics. 

Members from the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences teamed up with Partnering 4 Health to share the imporance of joy and mindset to fourth graders at Paradise Elementary School. Faculty and students played with fourth graders and discussed the importance of physical and mental health. Fourth graders had the opportunity to test out…

UNLV’s Athletic Training Program achieved a remarkable victory at the Far West Athletic Trainers’ Association (FWATA) Quiz Bowl, winning first place among 12 accredited programs across the district (California, Hawaii, and Nevada) during the annual FWATA conference meeting. This outstanding accomplishment marks the fifth time since…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Association between dietary inflammatory index and risk of chronic kidney disease and low glomerular filtration rate; a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies" in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published with colleagues at the UNLV School of Medicine (Kenneth Izuora, Amber Champion, Shauna Groven) and Dental Medicine (Jeffrey Ebersole) findings from a 28-week randomized control trial titled, "Strawberries improve insulin resistance and related cardiometabolic markers in…

Alina Swafford (UNLV Sports Innovation Institute), Dr. Nate Hollister (Medicine), undergraduate student Scott McDonald, and John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) published a perspective paper representing a call to action to research circus movements. The focus of the paper is on the use of wearable…

Sara Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), graduate student Donya Shahmati (Nutrition Sciences), and Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues from Kansas State University, recently published "Perceptions of meat and dairy foods among college students at a land-grant institution: an observational,…

As a member of the Inequity in Obesity Prevention Trialists Collaborative Group, Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) worked with a team of international researchers, pooling data from 81 published trials to examine the effectiveness of the interventions. The study was recently published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology), Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition), and colleagues recently published a new paper, "Associations between intraindividual variability in weekday-weekend sleep timing and duration and eating disorder pathology," in Eating Behaviors.

Dr. Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and his former doctoral student Dr. Michael Dial (Ohio State University), along with other members of the Exercise Physiology and Integrated Chronobiology Lab published an article titled, "Social jetlag alters markers of exercise-induced mitochondrial adaptations in the heart," in the…

Graham R. McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and colleagues from the University of Wyoming published a paper in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology titled, "Circadian biology of cardiac aging." The article highlights in the alterations of cardiac circadian rhythms through the aging process, and the potential for…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an editorial titled, "Tree Nuts and Macular Pigment Optical Density: Visual Effects of Carotenoids Lutein and Zeaxanthin," in The Journal of Nutrition.