Future OSU Nutrition students will carry forward Home Economics alumna Elsie Crail Richardson’s legacy thanks to the endowed fund her daughter has created in her honor.
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A group of over-50 Deschutes County residents got their groove on as music from a Wiggles children’s tape streamed from speakers. Behind them a kitchen was ready for the brain-beneficial menu next on the agenda. The fun had just begun.
Zinc, an important mineral in human health, appears to affect how the immune system responds to stimulation, especially inflammation, new research from Oregon State University shows.
It was hard to miss – smack dab in the center of the MU quad stood a large white tent with more than a dozen vendors providing healthy eating tips, hosting activities and sampling food for the 5th annual National Nutrition Month at Oregon State in March.
“Spending time with interns is the most rewarding part of my job,” says OSUDI Program Clinical Coordinator Michelle Bump. “Every intern who goes through the OSUDI Program is a future dietitian with unlimited career potential, and I hope to inspire them to be their best self.”
New research has identified one of the key cancer-fighting mechanisms for sulforaphane, and suggests that this much-studied phytochemical may be able to move beyond cancer prevention and toward therapeutic use for advanced prostate cancer.