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Cooking (Or Not Cooking) Broccoli To Protect Its Nutritional Riches

If you want to reap the health benefits of broccoli and other cruciferous veggies, supplements just won’t do, according to new research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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Weaver first OSU alum to receive Linus Pauling Prize

OSU alumna and Oregon native Connie Weaver was awarded the Linus Pauling Prize for Health Research at the biennial Diet and Optimum Health Conference held on campus

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Nutrition Research

Mechanism discovered for health benefit of green tea

Award winning researcher Emily Ho and her colleagues have discovered that one of the beneficial compounds found in green tea has a powerful ability to increase the number of “regulatory T cells” that play a key role in immune function and suppression of autoimmune disease.

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Nutrition Students

OSU dietetics students teach middle schoolers about healthy eating

Students in Jenny Vannoy’s Communications in Dietetics course put their expertise in nutrition to the test when they crafted lesson plans tailored for middle school students.

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Nutrition Research

Taking a nutritional approach to prevent Alzheimer’s

Using nutrient “biomarkers” to assess those at risk for dementia may help determine if Alzheimer’s might be slowed or prevented with nutritional approaches.

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Nutrition Research

Are botanical estrogens safe?

Russ Turner and Urszula Iwaniec are investigating the impact of botanicals on bone health, breast cancer growth and metastasis, and cognitive function.