{"id":289,"date":"2012-03-28T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2012-05-09T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:33:44","slug":"gh-dna-career-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/gh-dna-career-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Daniel\u00a0Benyshek<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Education<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Arizona State University: Ph.D in Medical Anthropology and Nutritional Anthropology, 2001<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2hzaurtpu.site.aplus.net\/lab_nma.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-920\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/pic0612.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/pic0612.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/pic0612-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/span><\/a>Academic Interests<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">medical anthropology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">diabetes and other obesity-related chronic diseases<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Native Americas in\u00a0North America<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Havasupai Indian tribe of northern Arizona<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">his research \u201cfocuses on the intersection of health and disease within the context of a changing human diet\u201d by\u00a0\u201cinvestigating the increasing prevalence of obesity-related health disorders in evolutionary and political-ecological perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Current Position and Research<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/havas.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3531\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/havas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/havas.jpg 498w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/havas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/havas-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/span><\/a>Associate professor in the Department of\u00a0Anthropology\u00a0and\u00a0Ethnic Studies at the\u00a0University\u00a0of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Is investigating diabetes prevention lifestyle choices among urban Native Americans in Las Vegas by monitoring body weight, lipid consumption, and blood glucose to determine the effectiveness of various diabetes prevention strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Investigating the veracity of the claim that consuming the prepared and encapsulated placenta after giving birth has nutritional benefits. Specifically, Benyshek\u2019s goal is to determine whether or not this practice that is gaining popularity among Native American mothers has implications towards diabetes prevention.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Publications<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/content\/by\/year\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1356\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/jn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/jn.gif 266w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/03\/jn-224x300.gif 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/span><\/a>2001: Dr. Benyshek&#8217;s graduate thesis,\u00a0\u201cA reconsideration of the origins of the Type 2 diabetes epidemic among Native Americans and the implications for intervention policy\u201d was published in <em>Medical Anthropology<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">2003:\u00a0\u201cThe nutritional history of the Havasupai Indians of Northern Arizona: Dietary change and inadequacy in the reservation era and their implications for current health\u201d was published in <em>Nutritional Anthropolo<\/em><em>gy<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">2005:\u00a0\u201cType 2 diabetes and fetal origins: The promise of prevention programs focusing on prenatal health in high prevalence Native American communities,\u201d where he discusses\u00a0the concept of preventing Type 2 diabetes through prenatal care\u00a0was published in <em>Human Organization<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daniel\u00a0Benyshek Education University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988 Arizona State University: Ph.D in Medical Anthropology and Nutritional Anthropology, 2001 Academic Interests medical anthropology diabetes and other obesity-related chronic diseases Native Americas in\u00a0North America Havasupai Indian tribe of northern Arizona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/gh-dna-career-biography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1841,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}