SCAZZINA Francesca

Francesca Scazzina is an Associate Professor of human nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma. Her research work starts in 2005 with a main focus on complex carbohydrate, dietary fibre, prebiotics and antioxidants in foods, and their effects on metabolism and intestinal functions. During her Ph.D. studies, she's been a visiting scientist at the School of Food Biosciences, Food Microbial Sciences Unit, University of Reading (UK). She also was involved in population surveys in the Italian section of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). In these research fields, she is co-author of several publications on international peer reviewed Journals.
She is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition.
Since 2009, being involved in food educational projects implemented in primary schools of the Parma area, Francesca acquired a deep experience in educational health learning programs and children population surveys. She is member of SINU (Italian Society of Human Nutrition), Senior Collaborator of The Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme (NNEdPro, Cambridge Foundation, Cambridge, UK (www.nnedpro.org.uk)) and is co-founder and Scientific Coordinator of (www.madegus.com), spin off of University of Parma focused on developing specific strategies and educational tools to improve nutritional knowledge, dietary habits and lifestyle.
Additionally, she recently started working in the framework of diet sustainability, applying the nutritionist's viewpoint to a topic that had been mainly faced with an ecological approach.

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