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Substandard nutrition results in an increased risk of many diseases

Good health starts with good food. Every day, what we put on our plates affects how we grow, how we age and how we deal with disease. Florida State University is working to shift our focus from treating illness to preventing it through strong nutrition research and education.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has encouraged schools to commit to providing at least 40 hours of nutrition education across all four years of medical training. At FSU, we support efforts to make real, wholesome food a central part of public health, and we train future physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nutrition professionals, researchers and other health workers to use nutrition to improve people's lives. For more than 20 years, nutrition has been a core part of the curriculum at the FSU College of Medicine.

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