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The Medical Research Council (MRC), founded in 1913, had previously had a Human Nutrition Research Unit at the end of the Second World War; this was founded and directed by BS Platt, and was interested in serious nutritional deficiencies in children, that would cause significantly premature death. HNR was formed in order to continue to advance ...
It is located at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital / Cambridge Biomedical Campus site in Cambridge, England. The unit is concerned with the study of the mitochondrion, as this organelle has a varied and critical role in many aspects of eukaryotic metabolism and is implicated in many metabolic, degenerative, and age-related human diseases.
These contributions include advancements in the knowledge of the role of dietary calcium [7] [8] and vitamin D in promoting nutrition and bone health, [9] the role of nutrients in maintaining the optimal immune response [10] and prevention of infectious diseases, role of diet in prevention of cancer, obesity research, [11] modifications to the ...
Cambridge University Press and Assessment [2] is a non-school institution [3] of the University of Cambridge. It was formed under Queen Elizabeth II's approval in August 2021 by the merge between Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment. [4] [5] [6] The institution is headquartered in Cambridge, England, with 50 overseas office ...
Facebook customer Global Science Research sold information on over 87 million Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica, a political data analysis firm led by Alexander Nix. [217] While approximately 270,000 people used the app, Facebook's API permitted data collection from their friends without their knowledge. [ 218 ]
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a group of women led by Seventh-day Adventist Lenna F. Cooper, [13] [14] and the Academy's first president, Lulu G. Graves, for the purpose helping the government conserve food and improve public health during World War I. [1]
The Cambridge Diet was a very-low-calorie meal replacement fad diet developed in the 1960s. [1] The diet launched with different versions in the US and the UK. [1] The US version filed for bankruptcy [2] and shut down shortly after the deaths of several dieters. [3] The UK diet has also been known as the Cambridge Weight Plan, but is now known ...
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created on December 1, 1994, to improve the health and well-being of Americans by establishing national dietary guidelines based on the best science available.