Ithaca, New York – The Cornell University in New York is designated as the Center of Excellence for Research and Nutrition Education and receives $856,250 total in overall federal funding in order to implement further programs that will boost nutrition research and also find ways to combat obesity with proper and urgent care.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stated that the funding was allotted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which will be supported by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education and also the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
Cornell’s College of Human Ecology Dean Alan Mathios, said in a recent statement that the $856,250 federal funding aims to help Cornell University does further study of the effectiveness of such nutrition education programs that can help any urgent care clinic handle nutritional issues better. Previous programs of Cornell University like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) and their Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) that were achieved through the University’s Cornell Cooperative Extension. The previous programs were able to benefit a total of 175,000 families last year all over New York.
Dean Alan Mathios also stated that the federal funding helps significantly in building pilot studies at the Cornell University. He added that through this government grant the university will be able to also embark on many innovative researches that will significantly help in better understanding how such nutrition education programs along with basic and simple changes in environments like work sites, schools, and communities that may work greatly added with the encouragement and promotion of healthier lifestyles.
The said government funding will lead to new ways and methods that would be discovered that will help urgent care clinics greatly in the state. It will be more equipped in handling such issues on nutrition and the discovery of such new nutritional programs will help those in need of finding an urgent care near me that can assist in facing such nutritional issues.
The grants were not only limited to Cornell, In fact other universities also received the same funding assistance with the same goal of boosting nutrition researches and finding ways to combat obesity which is a growing problem being faced by not only Americans but all nations. Other grants were also awarded with the same amount of $856,250, federal funding with similar amounts also went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Purdue University and also Colorado State University, while a $175,000 grant was allocated to The University of Kentucky.
