Thursday, 4th December 49th Nutrition Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

• Food Security and Nutrition in the Pacific - Sarah Burkhart
• Strategies to improve sustainabilty of chicken meat, egg and pork production - Eugeni Roura

• Causal inference in nutritional epidemiology: Challenges and future directions - Yohannes Adama Melaku

• Does diet and bone health predict injury in masters distance runners? - Erin A Colebatch
• Nutrition knowledge of recreational runners: a systematic review - Nathan Cook
• Diet quality is sub-optimal in masters distance runners - Alison M Hill
• Exploring nutrition knowledge gaps within Australian university student athletes. - Amy Janiczak
• The Effect of Carbohydrate Beverage and Energy Bar Ingestion on Cycling Performance and Physiological Responses in Healthy Athletes - John O'Reilly

• Food waste donation within Australian hospital foodservices: A qualitative exploration into dietitians’ perspectives - Joshua JB Bowles
• Nutritional life cycle assessment (nLCA) of shifting to pulses from animal sourced foods: an Australian case study of hummus vs ham sandwich - Adeline R Lanham
• Understanding the barriers to plant-based dietary change: The role of meat-centric meal perception among adults in Australia and Denmark - Gie Liem
• Australian plant-based meat and dairy alternatives: an audit of fortification and extent of processing - Laura Marchese
• Validation of a digital photography method for determining plate waste in an acute care hospital setting - Huize Ni

• A national analysis of current dietary protein intake, source and quality in older australian adults - Rikke Sand RSA Andersen
• Perceptions of healthcare professionals and patients on the appropriate translation of person-centred care into virtual care delivery for middle-aged and older adults: a mixed methods systematic review - Jess Bai
• The association between dietary protein source and quality and muscle health in older adults - Laura E Marchese
• Effect of anti-inflammatory diet on mental health outcomes in an aging population: A preventive target trial emulation - Belayneh Miteku

• Impact of human milk oligosaccharide supplementation on learning and memory ability of piglets in 8-arm radial maze - Dilki Adikari Arachchige
• Targeting elevated Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 in airway epithelium: the role of anthocyanins from New Zealand blackcurrant. - Madiha Ajaz
• Lipid pathway disruption predicts growth divergence in post-weaning piglets - Paul Bogere
• A novel gut-mediated mechanism for the link between metabolic diseases and COVID-19. - Michael J Houghton
• Prenatal flavour exposure: transfer of feed volatiles from breeder hen diets to broiler chicken embryos - Marta M Navarro

• Disordered eating and university course, first-year nutrition students have higher orthorexia scores - Katya Clark
• Who's experience counts? migrant and refugee voices on food insecurity measurement - E Clarke
• Cultivating Positive Food Environments in Early Childhood Education and Care settings: Introducing the Artichoke Model  - Audrey Elford
• SchoolFoodies: The Food and Nutrition Curriculum Toolkit - Danielle Gallegos
• Nutrition professionals’ perspectives towards the scope-of-practice for nutrition science graduates - Anita Stefoska-Needham

• Gender differences in the prevalence of food insecurity among men and women in Nigeria.   - Chioma Anidi
• Sodium content of breads in Australia: trends overtime and adherence to the Partnership Reformulation Program - Natalie Marinho Dantas
• Insta worthy, but is it healthy? Nutrient and food group composition of recipes by influential Instagram accounts - Emily Denniss
• Serving sizes and portion-control visual cues on packaged snacks – An audit study in Australian supermarkets - Monica Qingzhou Liu
• Understanding and perceived usefulness of effect estimates among Accredited Practising Dietitians: a randomised online survey - Elizabeth P Neale

• A short-chain galacto-oligosaccharides and long-chain fructo-oligosaccharides prebiotic blend can improve gut-immunity outcomes for formula-fed children - Tim Cassettari
• Changes in taste perception during menopause - Andrew Costanzo
• Planning for Pregnancy, Not for Hunger: Assessing Food Insecurity in the Pre-Pregnancy Period   - Amanda Dickson
• The effect of body mass index and prebiotics supplementation on gestational diabetes mellitus - Rachelle Pretorius
• A systematic review of studies measuring the dietary intake of commercial complementary foods for infants and young children - Bianca Smith
• Maternal Dietary Intervention Modulating Iron Saturation and Sialic Acid in Lactoferrin: Effects on Offspring PolySia–NCAM Expression and Behavior - Bing Wang

• Dietary fat guidelines and commentary – a temporal and thematic analysis - Timothy Gill
• Mapping Digital Delivery Methods for Interventions of diet and physical activity in Online Clinical Trials: An Umbrella Scoping Review - Digby JG Krastins
• The Livewell Diet for Australia? Adaptation of a UK sustainable diet and assessment of the potential nutritional implications of its adoption by Australian adults – a dietary modelling study - Lily Donosky
• Food insecurity in Australia: A social network analysis of relevant parties - Monica Venosa

• Interest-holders’ views on the food and nutrition topics that should be integrated into the Australian primary school curriculum. - Estee Driscoll
• Co-creating digital resources for food policy career pathways: A student-staff partnership project - Jessica V Kempler
• Towards healthy and sustainable diets for adolescents: home economics classes focusing on pulses       - Adeline R Lanham
• Building the nutrition workforce through employability education. - Susan Mcleod
• Primary school lunches: children’s practices and perceptions - Janandani Nanayakkara
• Food security of students attending a small, regional northern Australian university - Rebecca Patterson
• Nutrition science students’ perspectives towards their scope-of-practice when delivering nutrition and dietary advice in future client-facing roles - Anita Stefoska-Needham
• Food behaviours during school time: secondary school students’ perceptions and experiences – preliminary findings - Sinali Weerasekara Kodithuwakkuralalage

• Bridging the disconnect between theory and practice: barriers to food security systems change in rural, regional and remote Western Australia. - Isabelle Chiera
• Food insecurity, mental health and social isolation in a regional Australian population - Katherine Kent
• Consumption of commercial infant and toddler snack foods among Australian children: a preliminary cross-sectional study - Katherine Kent
• Public knowledge of ultra-processed foods in Australia - Priscila Machado
• Modelling the effect of adjusting nutrient profiling criteria to determine the nutritional quality of ready meals in the Australian food supply   - Elizabeth Neale
• A comparative content analysis of food marketing strategies on social media used by big food and beverage companies - Rajshri Roy
• Machine learning enables prediction of dietary diversity at eating occasions via contextual factors - Nancy Tran

• Change in diet quality and dietary intake from pregnancy to one year postpartum: A longitudinal analysis in Australian women. - Sasha Fenton
• Association between dietary intake of the advanced glycation end-product (AGE) carboxymethyllysine (CML) and fertility status in reproductive-aged women: analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data 2017-2020 - Nicole J Kellow
• An exploration of lipidome alternation following a low-intensity nutrition intervention targeting triglycerides in gestational diabetes management - Kai Liu
• Co-designing polycystic ovary syndrome lifestyle resources: A patient-centred approach for population-level implementation - Margaret McGowan
• Dietary interventions for managing menopause symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis - Hayley M O'Neill
• Caught between convenience and concern: A qualitative exploration of Australian parental perspectives of commercial squeeze pouches for infants and children. - Bianca Smith
• Impact of telehealth-delivered Medical Nutrition Therapy on diabetes outcomes in rural general practice: a secondary analysis of the Healthy Rural Hearts randomised controlled trial - Clare E Collins

• Do markers of oxidative stress change following consumption of energy-restricted diets containing almonds compared with carbohydrate-rich snack foods? - Alison M Coates
• Exploring associations between estimated live microbe intakes and health indicators using the Australian Eating Survey - Maria Gomez Martin
• Using the genetics of chemosensory perception to understand causal impacts of dietary patterns on cardiometabolic health - Phoebe SC Hui
• Higher fish consumption is associated with lower symptoms of depression in Australian adults with multiple sclerosis - Hajar Mazahery
• Transcriptomic Signatures for Personalized Obesity Treatment: Insights from Adipose and Blood Tissues - Chiara Murgia
• Both the quantity and diversity of dietary flavonoid intake contribute to lower mortality and chronic disease risk in the UK Biobank cohort study - Benjamin Parmenter
• Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of type-2 diabetes in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort study   - Natalia Tolstova
• Investigating the association between post-migration nutrition and lifestyle transition and the risk of developing chronic diseases among sub-Saharan Africa migrants in New South Wales:  A case of Nigerian migrants - Blessing J. Akombi-Inyang

Venue: Cora Restaurant