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Author: Kaylee Helfrich

Kaylee Helfrich is a fifth year graduate student in Nutritional Biochemistry at UNC. She researches maternal nutrition and prenatal alcohol consumption in Dr. Susan Smith's lab. When not working, Kaylee enjoys reading, cooking, and dancing.

Blog / Uncertain Food in a Warming World

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 / Kaylee Helfrich /

Climate change will reduce our ability to reliably get inexpensive, healthy, and plentiful food. Our actions today will determine how we eat in the future.

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Blog / Supplement your way to a better brain? Fact-checking a nutritional supplement

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 / Kaylee Helfrich / 2

A supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.

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Blog / A Nutritious Diet: Not What the Doctor Ordered?

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 / Kaylee Helfrich /

Approximately 1 out of 5 deaths worldwide is due to poor nutrition, and doctors are not adequately trained to counsel their patients on improving their nutrition to ward off disease.

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Blog / A glass of wine a day…does not keep the doctor away

July 15, 2019July 22, 2019 / Kaylee Helfrich /

A review of 592 studies finds that a single standard drink of alcohol per day increases the risk for health problems.

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Blog / Improving science communication: Insights from scientists and nonscientists

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 / Kaylee Helfrich /

One of the goals of the Pipettepen blog is to train science communicators to share science with nonscientists. However, as both scientists and nonscientists know, this communication is not always…

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Blog / A Scientist’s View of Animal Research

November 24, 2018November 27, 2018 / Kaylee Helfrich /

One of the most controversial aspects of biomedical research is the use of animals to benefit humans. Scientists use animals to test new treatments for human diseases and to understand…

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Blog / No Fermentable Foods? Yes Please!

January 29, 2018 / Kaylee Helfrich / 4

No bread. No sugar. No rice, potatoes, corn, soy, milk, onions, garlic, chocolate, processed meats, or alcohol. Is this a starvation diet or a method of torture? Actually, this is…

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Blog / Think Before You Drink

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 / Kaylee Helfrich /

You see them at restaurants, grocery stores, and parties. In your fridge, in your cupboard, and on TV. In city streets and in the trash. And most likely, you’ve never…

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Alcohol Neuroscience Pregnancy

Blog / When 2+2 Does NOT Equal 4: Dangers in Reducing Nutrition to the Sum of Its Parts

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 / Kaylee Helfrich / 2

A researcher is looking at preliminary data from the CARET study when he does a double-take.  He thinks: that can’t be right- people who supplemented with vitamin A have higher…

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Food nutrition reductionism

Blog / Lacking Nobel-ity

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 / Kaylee Helfrich / 1

Do you want to learn about how the material of pants affects the sex life of rats?  Or about the different personalities of rocks? How about someone who invented prosthetic…

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