Newswise — For media covering the latest study in the Journal of the American Medical Association linking excessive amounts of sugar intake to high cholesterol levels, and the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation for government intervention in reducing the levels of salt that food manufacturers, restaurants and food service companies can add to their products, experts at the UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions are available for comment.
Riva Touger-Decker, PhD., RD, FADA, is chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions and director of the Division of Nutrition in the UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School. Her specialties include research in nutrition and oral medicine, graduate programs in clinical nutrition, advanced degree programs, nutrition and oral health outcomes research, and orofacial pain and nutrition.
Diane Rigassio Radler, PhD., RD, is an associate professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the School of Health Related Professions and New Jersey Dental School. Her research areas include nutrition, clinical nutrition, nutrition and oral health, and complementary and alternative medicine.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,900 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, which provides a continuum of healthcare services with multiple locations throughout the state.
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