Fat-Ass Cognition and Coanda?

Note: check out the third paragraph. While America is fat, according to Dr. Lindseth, it looks as though we'll continue to maintain air supremacy.

Tuesday, Feb. 13, Faculty Lecture Series Talk: "Food for Thought: Nutrition and Cognition" By Dr. Glenda Lindseth

Can a balanced diet make you smarter? In the Feb. 13 installment of the University of North Dakota Faculty Lecture Series, Dr. Glenda Lindseth will reveal how nutrition affects cognitive thought in her lecture: “Food for Thought: Nutrition and Cognition.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4:30 p.m. in the North Dakota Museum of Art. A 4 p.m. reception will precede the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Lindseth and her UND colleagues are currently wrapping up a 4-year Department of Defense study involving the effects of diet on cognition and flight performance. “My work essentially involves an examination of the effects of manipulating macronutrients (fat, protein, and carbohydrates) in the diets of healthy young adults and then measuring the effect that it has on cognition scores” said Lindseth. “Results are indicating that flight performance scores for pilots consuming high fat and carbohydrate diets are significantly better than pilots who consumed high protein diets, suggesting that a brief manipulation of diet could significantly impact performance on a test of short term memory scanning and flight performance.”

Lindseth will review the details of the Dietary Effects On Cognition and Flight Performance study as well as her plans to translate the results. “One of my most recent projects is the implementation of a Translational Research Planning Grant that will allow UND to plan and develop a proposal for a UND Center for Translational Research” said Lindseth. The Center for Translational Research will assist researchers in translating their research so the results will be applicable to the community. Lindseth was also a key player in securing nearly $4 million in grant funding to build a 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art Behavioral Research Center. The Center will house multidisciplinary behavioral research for nursing and psychology research teams as well as provide training for health care staff.

An extensive list of publications, research grants, special lectures, and awards offer a mere glimpse into the effect Lindseth’s research has had on the field of nursing and dietetics. Her extensive multidisciplinary research portfolio includes funded studies addressing behaviorally based nutritional interventions, and she is a Fellow of both the American Dietetic Association and the American Academy of Nursing. Awards received include the UND Founders Day Faculty Scholar Award, U.S. Air Force Recognition Award, the American Dietetic Association Service Recognition Award, North Dakota Nurses Association Research Nurse of the Year, and the Sigma Theta Tau Outstanding Researcher Award.