Bilde av Jensen, Torill
Bilde av Jensen, Torill
Assistant professor in nutrition Department of Community Medicine torill.enget@uit.no +4777644813 You can find me here

Torill Jensen


Job description

My teaching tasks are mainly related to the bachelor's program in nutrition within topics such as the composition of foods, their use and role in the diet, the connection between diet and health, knowledge of measures to promote healthy eating habits in the population, global nutrition, and nutritional epidemiology. The tasks include the development and implementation of teaching, examinations and censorship, as well as supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.


  • Torill Miriam Enget Jensen, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Daniel B. Ibsen, Guri Skeie :
    Replacing red and processed meat with lean or fatty fish and all-cause and cause specific mortality in Norwegian women. the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC): A prospective cohort study
    British Journal of Nutrition 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carlota Castro-Espin, Catalina Bonet, Marta Crous-Bou, Verena Katzke, Charlotte Le Cornet, Franziska Jannasch et al.:
    Dietary patterns related to biological mechanisms and survival after breast cancer diagnosis: results from a cohort study
    British Journal of Cancer 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Elom K. Aglago, Amanda J. Cross, Elio Riboli, Veronika Fedirko, David J. Hughes, Agnes Fournier et al.:
    Dietary intake of total, heme and non-heme iron and the risk of colorectal cancer in a European prospective cohort study
    British Journal of Cancer 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lucie Lécuyer, Nasser Laouali, Vivian Viallon, Fanny Artaud, James R. Hébert, Nitin Shivappa et al.:
    Associations between dietary inflammatory scores and biomarkers of inflammation in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort
    Clinical Nutrition 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Elise Marlen Paulsen, Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander, Magritt Brustad, Torill Miriam Enget Jensen :
    Pre-diagnostic intake of vitamin D and incidence of colorectal cancer by anatomical subsites: the Norwegian Women and Cancer Cohort Study (NOWAC)
    British Journal of Nutrition 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Torill Miriam Enget Jensen, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Bjarne Koster Jacobsen, Guri Skeie :
    Non‑linear associations between healthy Nordic foods and all‑cause mortality in the NOWAC study: a prospective study
    BMC Public Health 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lucie Lécuyer, Nasser Laouali, Laure Dossus, Nitin Shivappa, James R. Hébert, Antonio Agudo et al.:
    Inflammatory potential of the diet and association with risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort
    European Journal of Nutrition 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Fjorida Llaha, Valerie Cayssials, Marta Farràs, Antonio Agudo, Maria Sandström, Anne Kirstine Eriksen et al.:
    Adherence to mediterranean diet and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in a European cohort: The EPIC study
    Frontiers in Nutrition 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Isabel Iguacel, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Julie A. Schmidt, Heleen Van Puyvelde, Ruth Travis, Corinne Casagrande et al.:
    Evaluation of protein and amino acid intake estimates from the EPIC dietary questionnaires and 24-h dietary recalls using different food composition databases
    NMCD. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Isabel Iguacel, Julie A. Schmidt, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Heleen Van Puyvelde, Ruth C. Travis, Magdalena Stepien et al.:
    Associations between dietary amino acid intakes and blood concentration levels
    Clinical Nutrition 2021 DOI
  • Torill Enget, Tonje Braaten, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Runa Borgund Barnung, Anja Olsen, Guri Skeie :
    Adherence to the Healthy Nordic Food Index in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) cohort
    Food & Nutrition Research (FNR) 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ena Huseinovic, Anna Winkvist, Heinz Freisling, Nadia Slimani, Heiner Boeing, Genevieve Buckland et al.:
    Timing of eating across ten European countries - Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study
    Public Health Nutrition (PHN) 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ena Huseinovic, Anna Winkvist, Nadia Slimani, Mi-Kyung Park, Heinz Freisling, Heiner Boeing et al.:
    Meal patterns across ten European countries - Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study
    Public Health Nutrition (PHN) 2016 ARKIV / DOI
  • Torill Miriam Enget Jensen, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Runa Borgund Barnung, Anja Olsen, Guri Skeie :
    Corrigendum to: Adherence to the Healthy Nordic Food Index in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) cohort (Food Nutr Res 2018; 62: 1339. 10.29219/fnr.v62.1339)
    Food & Nutrition Research (FNR) 2024 DOI
  • Siv Eli Vuolab, Anne Sameline Grimsgaard, Torill Miriam Enget Jensen, Ina Midttun, Guri Skeie, Ragnhild Holten Nergaard et al.:
    Lek og lær med de nye kosholdsrådene
    Forskningsdagene 2024, åpent arr på Tromsø museum 2024
  • Torill Miriam Enget Jensen :
    Nytt fra norsk ernæringsforskning
    2022
  • Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Guri Skeie, Karina Standahl Olsen, Lene Angell Åsli, Torill Enget, Idlir Licaj et al.:
    Forskningsdagene 2015 - Forskningstorget
    2015

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    Research interests

    Nutritional epidemiology

    Dietary pattern
    Regional diets
    Sustainable diet
    Nordic foods
    Food systems
    Microbiota
    Processed food
    The relationship between diet and colorectal cancer
    The connection between diet and inflammation

    Teaching

    Food science and food safety

    Public health nutrition