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Studies to promote optimal health and mental and physical performance are a key area of research in the Division of Health and Performance Enhancement through its collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. These studies focus on improving soldier effectiveness, including evaluations of nutritional approaches to enhance performance during sleep deprivation, prolonged physical exertion, and physical stress. This work crosses basic and clinical disciplines and evaluates inter-individual differences in responses. Studies of energy metabolism reveal a strong interaction between physical fitness and metabolic adaptation to dietary fat intake. Meanwhile, studies aimed at putting preventive approaches into the mainstream of primary care office practice are in progress. Smoking cessation studies promote health, while mechanisms of cessation related changes in food intake are also studied.
A recent award from the National Institutes of Health will provide the resources for a major study of the effects of a two-year calorie deficit on aging.
Laboratories operating within the Health and Performance priority:
- Energy Metabolism
- Health Behavior
- Nutrition and Exercise
- Prevention of Childhood Obesity
- Primary Care Research
- Gene Environment Interactions
Special Initiative
Military Nutrition Research:
Seven Tasks to Address Health and Performance of the
American Armed Forces at Home and Abroad
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