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Congress has appropriated more than $20.5 million for planning, design and construction of a Center for Research on Human Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The Center will draw upon the unique scientific resources of the medical school.
The mission of the Center is to extend, utilize and disseminate knowledge of nutrition to achieve optimal health through prevention of chronic diseases. The program will focus upon nutritional aspects of chronic diseases - particularly heart disease, cancer and stroke - so that human suffering and the costs of these diseases can be reduced.
The Center's overall goal is to reduce the incidence and duration of chronic diseases through research on the role of diet and nutrition.
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