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Food and agricultural research:Innovation to transform human health

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Delivery of healthcare is a pressing social, economic, technical and political challenge, 75% of health care expenditure in the US are for diet-related chronic diseases, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc. Emphasis has been on therapeutic and surgical treatments after disease development instead of prevention through food and diet. We need a structure that integrates food and agricultural research as a full partner in the national health-research mission.

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The paper stresses the possibilities of integrating beneficial traits via ag biotech into common foods to integrate nutrition and health care and presents a possible action plan to initiate research and how to fund it.

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2009-03-06

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NABC

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Agricultural biotechnolgy; health; biosourced thearapeutics; biopharma; functional foods

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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