Tag: food
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Muddy water: Additional observational data cannot aid in determining whether there is a physiological interaction between low vitamin B12 and high folate in cognitive health
Dr. Stover and Dr. Bailey co-wrote this editor’s choice article…
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Dr. MacMillan Uribe, Study provides new insights into how acculturation affects what teens eat
“Looking at dietary acculturation in teens is important because they may experience acculturation differently from adults,” said research team leader Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe, PhD, RDN, assistant professor at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA). “For example, they may be more susceptible to the influence of their peer groups….”
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The Aggie food moon shot
For the past dozen millennia or so, ever since humans developed agriculture, the purpose of food systems was to limit hunger, Stover explained. Well, yes, I thought. That seems obvious. A bit like saying the purpose of roads is transportation. If it were otherwise, that would be news. But the just-launched Institute for Advancing Health…
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Texas A&M AgriLife’s Stover testifies during congressional State of Nutrition in America 2021
“We need to build upon the Borlaug legacy in a revolutionary new way: by expanding our mission from simply using food to eliminate hunger and undernutrition to using food to become healthier…”