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
Visiting Researcher and Physician
Collaborates on Obesity
Dr. Junfeng He is a researcher and a physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine working with CAN to exchange nutrition research techniques focusing on treating obesity
The Center for Advanced Nutrition is excited to welcome Dr. Junfeng He as a visiting scholar from China for a one-year period. He brings, among other things, experience in immunohistochemistry and electrophysiology.
He received an award from the China Association of Chinese Medicine’s Science and Technology Progress Prize for his “Research on the effects of acupuncture at acupoints in Foot-Yangming-Meridian to the Stomach” project in 2007, the same year he received the “Young Excellent Teacher of Hunan Province Award”. He recently participated in a science project entitled “Establishment of Rat Bronchitis Model TCM’s Deficiency of Kidney and Spleen”. His visit to USU is sponsored by a grant from the China Scholarship Council. (more)
