While the importance of good nutrition is widely accepted, understanding the biological, physiological, and psychological mechanisms of proper nutrition is less clear. The Center for Advanced Nutrition (CAN) provides a multi-disciplinary venue for the discussion, discovery, and dissemination of information about those mechanisms.
The scope of discovery is broad and falls into four distinct but overlapping focus areas:
Bioactive Foods,
Nutrition and the Brain,
Ingestive Behavior, and
Personalized Nutrition
When it isn't enough to say "eat more vegetables," USU research points to practical nutrition techniques.
by Jacoba Mendelkow
Intervention isn’t a word to use lightly. You don’t have an intervention when problems aren’t really that bad. Interventions aren’t fun—sometimes people cry, sometimes people get defensive. After all, it is hard to give up the life you know and completely switch mindsets. It isn’t a comfortable place to be. It is really no wonder, then, that there are a few tears.
But interventions, while not easy, are worth the effort. The intervention staged by Heidi Wengreen, USU nutrition and food science professor, is like others: stepping in at a perfect time, helping to prevent further damage, educating and empowering those intervened upon. The difference is that Wengreen intervenes using vegetables. (click here to read entire article)
