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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A new University of Missouri research center on obesity is bringing together experts in agriculture, medicine, food science, journalism, exercise and nutrition.
The $11 million, interdisciplinary Nutritional Center for Health is part of the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology on the Columbia campus. The center collected almost $1 million in private donations.
The facility includes an observational laboratory and a metabolic kitchen where researchers can design meals with specific nutritional profiles.
A recent study in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that more than 30 percent of U.S. adults and almost 20 percent of American children are overweight.
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