If you are like me, chances are high that you were recently taking strolls through the grocery aisles while pondering the everlasting question “what should I eat?”

Regardless of your ethnicity, socioeconomic background, or geographical residency, food plays a large role in all of our lives. Dietary habits are an ingrained part of human culture and they frequently dictate the rhythm of what we do, the people we spend our time with, and even how we feel. It should come as no surprise to you that the study of diets, formally called nutritional science, also brings large groups of scientists together. As academics, we similarly obsess over the questions of “what should I eat?”, “how much should I eat?”, and even the provocative “when should I eat?” Over the past decades, these topics of investigation have led to several breakthroughs in our understanding of what is considered optimal nutrition. However, there are still a lot of questions to be answered and a long way to go before we can safely apply this knowledge at the population level.

Dr. Yeh's fellowship is under the supervision of Dr. Dudley Lamming in the Endocrinology unit of UW-Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health.