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National Programs
Human Nutrition
Program Summary:
- Reduce health care costs and enhance the quality of life by defining the
relationship between diet, genetics, and lifestyle and the risk for chronic
diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and
cancer.
- Improve the scientific basis for more effective federal food assistance
programs by better defining nutrient requirements and monitoring food and
nutrient consumption and identifying socio-economic, cultural, and
environmental forces that influence eating habits.
- Generate a more nutritious food supply by conducting research that defines
the basis for modifying the health promoting properties of plant and animal
foods and make beneficial changes in the composition of foods using
biothechnology, genetics, and new food processing
technologies.
- Improve the resistance to acute infections and immune disorders by
investigating the interaction between nutrition and immune
function.
- Enhance the capacity to promote changes in diet habits by basic research
on neural processes, growth and development, memory and learning, appetite
regulation, and physiological factors influencing food
habits.
- Extend dietary guidance to nutritionally-vulnerable groups within the
United States by determining how food consumption at critical points in the
life cycle affects normal development and risk of disease.
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