The grant will create and implement a statewide nutrition curriculum emphasizing interdisciplinary education and research toward the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases. The University of Nevada School of Medicine is part of a coordinated consortium of 20 other medical schools nationwide funded by NIH to study nutrition. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in America, yet physicians have not historically been trained in the nutritional aspects of the disease, says St. Jeor. Patients really want to know the answers.
Nutrition is tremendously important.