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Introductions & Goal Setting: Positioning the Protein Foods Category from Canada's Food Guide

Defining Protein, Protein Quality and Protein Content Claims Substantiation


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James House, PhD
University of Manitoba

Dr. House received his B.Sc. (Agr) from the University of Guelph in 1990. He then completed his Ph.D. in nutrition and metabolism from the Department of Animal & Poultry Science at the University of Guelph in 1996, under the co-supervision of Drs. Ron Ball and Paul Pencharz. For the next three years, Jim worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, with Dr. Sean Brosnan, where he was the recipient of a Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship in 1998. In the fall of 1998, he joined the Department of Animal Science at the University of Manitoba, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Human Nutritional Sciences. Jim has received the young investigator awards from Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS) and the Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences. He has been active in the Canadian nutrition community, serving a 3-year term as awards councilor for the Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences (CSNS), and chairing the joint meeting of CSNS, CSAS, and the Canadian Section of the American Oil Chemists' Society (CAOCS), officially known as the Canadian Nutrition Congress, in Winnipeg in 2007. With respect to his research program, his current interests include understanding the interplay between vitamin status and amino acid metabolism and the investigation of factors influencing the nutritional quality of eggs. In January 2009, Jim was appointed Head of the Department of Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba.


** Original Source: Protein Foods Workshop: Identifying Knowledge Gaps in Positioning "Protein Foods" to Canadian Consumers Thursday, October 17, 2019


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