Overview of 360° Nutrition Innovations

GPHI’s multi-step 360° Nutrition Innovations is a multi-cultural interactive Web-based learning process designed to improve long-term health, and quality of life, through incorporating good nutrition into your lifestyle. Its evidence-based scientific approach covers nutrition recommendations from preconception nutrition (prior to pregnancy) through elder years. Topics cover a wide range including weight management, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, food allergies (gluten, peanut, etc.), positive and negative effects of herbal and dietary supplements, adverse health effects of plastics and food dyes/additives; and dietary factors impacting cancers and infectious diseases.

360° Nutrition Innovations personal nutrition profile begins with an individualized assessment of what you eat during three 24-hour food periods. Your eating preferences and patterns are used to suggest appropriate alternative foods and eating behavior modifications that will improve your diet and overall health. These gradual modifications in food intake use the ‘Stages of Change’ behavior model. Your personal health history and body image and shape are included in the assessment to analyze the impact on long-term chronic diseases.

All assessment information collected is examined and analyzed by GPHI's nutritional epidemiologist, Dr. Sharon Marie Lund, and shared through your personal profile created on your private, individual, password protected GPHI account. To assure confidentiality, no name or other personally identifiable information is gathered. 360° Nutrition Innovation’s unique approach allows you to choose only one personal nutrition profile assessment or multiple assessments over time (i.e., week to week, month to month, year to year). The assessments provide feedback to help you understand the impact of your food and nutrition choices and ‘trend’ how they impact the quality of your health over time.

Who is Dr. Sharon Marie Lund, Ph.D.?

Dr. Sharon Marie Lund's thirty years of global multi-cultural experiences in the field of public health lead her to develop GPHI's 360° Nutrition Innovations. This innovative intervention fills a need in the current diet and nutrition world by focusing on promoting optimal health through nutrition and the prevention of diet related illnesses.

Dr. Lund has a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from New York University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. She is an expert in measuring the impact of diet on health and diseases, a focus of 360° Nutrition Innovations.

Her University of Minnesota research experience includes a National School Lunch Program dietary data assessment and health behavior intervention project funded through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and an infectious disease evidence-based intervention ADAPT project funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reduce behavioral risk factors. She co-authored "The Research Productive Department: Strategies from Departments that Excel" and taught classes and lectured on human, maternal and infant nutrition at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Lund's professional experience includes Chief Nutritionist and Program Director for a federal nutrition Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Program at NENA Health Center in Manhattan's Lower East Side. She also developed maternal and child health care policy for the Minnesota Department of Human Services Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) and Prenatal Care Program's; and conducted research for the Minnesota Department of Health.