Company Profile
Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center
Company Overview
Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center uses modern procedures, equipment, and facilities to determine how early-life exposures to diet, dietary factors, physical activity, and other factors can affect biological systems including brain development, skeletal health, adipose tissue development, gastrointestinal health, immune system development, cardiometabolic health, and whole-body metabolism. Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center investigators are UAMS Department of Pediatrics faculty members within the section of Developmental Nutrition and receive funding beyond USDA-ARS, including the National Institutes of Health, non-profits, and industry partners. The Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center also receives funding from the Arkansas Biosciences Institute, which was created as the major research component of the Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act of 2000.
Mission: The Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center conducts cutting-edge research to understand how maternal-child nutrition and physical activity optimize health and development.
Vision: Enhance parental and child health through the science of food, nutrition and physical activity.
Company History
A national Human Nutrition Research Center established in 1994 in partnership with Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center has become a premier research venue for the study of maternal-child health and early childhood development.
Benefits
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