The Nutrition for Healthy Living Study

The Nutrition for Healthy Living Study was created in 1995 and was funded by the National Institutes of Health with Sherwood L. Gorbach, M.D. as principal investigator. The aims of the study were to assess the nutritional consequences of HIV infection and to determine how malnutrition adversely affects the course of the disease. The main focus of the project was on wasting. Project 1, funded from 2000-2005, aims to determine whether nutrition is a predictor of clinical outcome, independently of virologic or treatment status, and to define the effects of HAART on nutritional status. Data analysis is ongoing.

Two publications were associated with the study, the Nutrition for Healthy Living newsletter and Positive Attitudes newsletter. Selected back issues of the newsletter are available for viewing on our website.