Events: detail
If Thin is In, Why Are We So Fat?
- Speaker:
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M.R.C. Greenwood, University of California - Davis
- Starts:
- July 29, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- July 29, 2008 at 09:00 pm
- Location:
- J. Erik Jonsson Center of the National Academies, , 314 Quissett Avenue, Woods Hole, MA. 02543
- Maps:
Description
Understand the scientific causes of obesity and how genetics, physiology, nutrition, and education work together for or against us in the development of disease like diabetes. What’s the answer? Do we have a national science policy for nutrition? Is there a role for government in the regulation of food and diet?
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
MRC Greenwood, Ph.D., (IOM), is an internationally known expert on the genetic causes of obesity and diabetes. Currently Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine and Chair of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, she is Chancellor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Please see Web page for registration information.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Contact Center
- Phone:
- 508-289 4630
- Email:
- voicesatjonsson [ at ] nas.edu
- Website:
- If Thin is In, Why Are We So Fat?
