The research efforts in the Center can be conveniently grouped together under the Research Overview Center Laboratories Center Timeline Research Projects heading of the metabolic syndrome.
Human nutrition sustains human metabolism.
The Center's research aims to use nutrition to optimize the body's metabolism. The metabolic syndrome represents a derangement in the body's metabolism brought about by inappropriate nutrition, increasing obesity, physical inactivity, and inherited factors. Center investigators study the causes of the metabolic syndrome and seek new approaches to restoring normal metabolism in people who have this syndrome. Reynolds Project Investigators in the Center participate in the. Nutrition researchers provide nutrition and metabolic expertise to this large project.