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ARS Food and Nutrition Research Briefs
Issued
By Kim Kaplan
March 28, 2008 The first evidence that high levels of
vitamin A can suppress development of type 1 diabetes in laboratory mice prone
to that disease is among the new nutrition and health findings noted in the
most recent issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs
and the Spanish-language edition Informe de investigaciones de alimentos
y nutrición.
View the English edition at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb0408.htm
The popular online newsletter reports discoveries from researchers at ARS
laboratories nationwide.
Among other findings, the current issue reports that:
- Encouraging grade-school children to participate in food preparation
activities is an effective approach to getting the children to eat more fruits
and vegetables.
- ARS has launched Community Nutrition Map (CNMap), an updated web resource
that provides a snapshot of state and national health and nutrition indicators.
- How often people eat each day may affect their health.
- Strawberries, grapes, blueberries and some familiar seasonings like
rosemary contain compounds that canin test tubeskill cells of a
childhood cancer.
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