The research efforts in the Center Center Overview Nutrition Research Nutrition Education Center Location can be conveniently grouped together under the 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. These investigators have served on key committees of the AHA, including the prestigious Nutrition Committee. Center supporters helped to underwrite the creation of the AHA's cookbook for lowering the blood cholesterol.