As the new endowed director for the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health, Emily Ho hopes to make the center a hub for nutrition research and its application. She’s already leaving a lasting impression with those she teaches, mentors and speaks to in public presentations.
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There is pretty strong evidence from studies that compounds found in cruciferous vegetables may have cancer-fighting properties.
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.
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.
Using nutrient “biomarkers” to assess those at risk for dementia may help determine if Alzheimer’s might be slowed or prevented with nutritional approaches.
Celia gazes out the arched window of the Women’s Building as a breeze catches red and yellow leaves swirling against a vivid blue fall sky. “I see things differently now, Even simple fall colors mean more,” says the courageous survivor of breast cancer.