{"id":2365,"date":"2022-12-05T00:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2022-12-05T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:17:52","slug":"congress-close-the-gap-between-funding-for-nutrition-research-and-the-toll-diet-related-disease-takes-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You are what you eat. Every year, new scientific discoveries make clear that food is critical to health. In recent years, nutrition research trials have shown that a\u00a0Mediterranean diet\u00a0reduces cardiovascular disease;\u00a0ultra-processed foods\u00a0increase weight gain;\u00a0omega-3 fatty acids\u00a0improve IQ in preterm babies;\u00a0cocoa\u00a0prevents heart attacks; and vitamin D supplements do \u2014 well,\u00a0almost nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But many questions remain: What\u2019s the best diet for weight loss? Do supplements really work? Can certain foods or better nutrition help cancer treatment, maintain brain health, treat autism, or improve immunity? What\u2019s the best way to nurture the gut microbiome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will take years before answers to these and many other questions emerge \u2014 time the U.S. does not have as obesity and diet-related diseases rise at alarming rates. What\u2019s needed right now is a national nutrition science moonshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/12\/02\/congress-close-the-gap-funding-nutrition-research-toll-diet-related-disease\/\">Keep reading at STAT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are what you eat. Every year, new scientific discoveries make clear that food is critical to health. In recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}