March is National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month® -- a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The campaign is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.
NNM also promotes the Academy and its members to the public and the media as the most valuable and credible source of timely, scientifically based
food and nutrition information.
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LifeScience Moment: Robert Koch announced the discovery of tubercle bacillus
On March 24, 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis.
Three weeks later, on April 10, Koch published an article entitled "The Etiology of Tuberculosis" and in 1884, in a second paper
with the same title, he first expounded "Koch's postulates," which have since become basic to studies of all infectious diseases.
In 1905, Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
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It is a Small World
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Microscopy H3N8 Influenza Neuraminidase
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Science Quote
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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Hippocrates, Greek physician
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(c. 460-377 BC)
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