{"id":78,"date":"2017-12-19T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agsci.colostate.edu\/cropsforhealth\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:06:47","slug":"origins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agsci.colostate.edu\/cropsforhealth\/origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;364&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ideas that gave birth to Crops For Health\u00ae program emerged from several resources as outlined below.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>A number of recent large epidemiological studies have drawn into question the relative importance of plant food consumption in chronic disease prevention.\u00a0\u00a0 We have dubbed the controversy created by these reports the plant food-disease prevention conundrum.\u00a0In response to this conundrum, we formulated the working hypothesis that negative findings are due in part to the dissimilarities in the varieties of the same crop to which different populations around the world have access.\u00a0 Stated differently, we hypothesize that all varieties of a food crop are not created equal in their disease prevention attributes.\u00a0 CFH investigators seek to identify crop cultivars with disease prevention traits so that they can be understood genetically and chemically. \u00a0This knowledge would then be used to improve the disease prevention attributes of the world\u2019s food supply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The best advice available regarding nutrition and health is to have a lot of variety in the diet and to eat in moderation.\u00a0 This advice prompts the question of how best to define and measure \u201cvariety\u201d.\u00a0 For plants foods, the CFH hypothesis is that defining variety by botanical family will result in the consumption of the most beneficial mixture of bioactive food components.\u00a0 Defining the chemical nature of this mixture is one of the initiatives that led to the concepts underlying Crops for Health\u00ae.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Efforts to investigate topics related to the first two points revealed a surprising communications gap between those disciplines within agricultural sciences that bring food to the global table and the disciplines within biomedical and allied health sciences that focus on health promotion and disease prevention.\u00a0This situation is ironic when it is recognized that great strides are being made in understanding of cellular processes and molecular mechanisms that account for life through comparative trans-organismal research spanning microbes, plants and animals.\u00a0The road to bridge this communications gap is the cross disciplinary initiative that we have named Crops For Health\u00ae and the goal of this initiative is to create an environment in which the discovery process will lead to the innovations in crop improvement and disease prevention\u00a0needed to\u00a0reduce morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases on a global scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;364&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ideas that gave birth to Crops For Health\u00ae program emerged from several resources as outlined below. A number of recent large epidemiological studies have drawn into question the relative importance of plant food consumption in chronic disease prevention.\u00a0\u00a0 We have dubbed the controversy created by these reports the plant food-disease prevention&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Origins - Crops For Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agsci.colostate.edu\/cropsforhealth\/origins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Origins - Crops For Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;364&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ideas that gave birth to Crops For Health\u00ae program emerged from several resources as outlined below. 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