Tag: food
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Texas A&M’s Director of Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture calls for a comprehensive approach to combat diet-related chronic diseases and rising health care costs
Dr. Patrick Stover testifies in front of full House Committee on Agriculture as part of “Innovation, Employment, Integrity, and Health: Opportunities for Modernization in Title IV” hearing.
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Improvements and Maintenance of Clinical and Functional Measures Among Rural Women: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities-2.0 Cluster Randomized Trial
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; however, women and rural residents face notable health disparities compared with male and urban counterparts…
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Aggies tout agricultural research in combating diet-related chronic disease
The event, “Ag Solves When Aggies Solve,” highlighted how Texas A&M AgriLife researchers rapidly are advancing this idea and featured keynote addresses by Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Agriculture chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics, and Howarth “Howdy” Bouis, Ph.D., 2016 World Food Prize laureate.
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Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture hosts first research workshop
Stakeholders discussed human nutrition programs, needs and priorities…
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Agriculture Nutrition Workshop
On August 1-2, the IHA held its first workshop to engage selected key stakeholders from the food-ag value chain. Working to focus food systems on improving human health, while supporting the environment and economy, the IHA used this workshop to engage production agriculture groups to further understand priorities, gaps and opportunities in precision nutrition, responsive…