NIH lecture-part of "stars in nutrition & cancer lecture" series

besa

I don't know if this will be an interesting lecture or not ---- but it is on topic and seems relevant. It should be available online within a few days....

http://prevention.cancer.gov/news-and-events/meetings-and-events/energy-hormesis-and-your

http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp

part of "STARS IN NUTRITION AND CANCER lecture" series

"Energy Hormesis and Your Health: A Different View of Energetics and Cancer"

SPEAKER: Henry J. Thompson, PhD

DATE: Monday, November 16

ABOUT THE LECTURER: Henry Thompson is a Professor at Colorado State University and Director of the University's Cancer Prevention Laboratory. He also is a Professor of the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado.

LECTURE OBJECTIVES: To explore the concept of energy hormesis and health with a specific focus on breast cancer; to evaluate the impact of inherent versus induced aerobic capacity on cancer risk, and energy stress pharmacology; and to assess energy restriction feasibility, energy restriction mechanisms, energy availability and stress in regards to cancer risk.

SPONSOR: National Cancer Institute

Registration NOT required, open to public.

SummerAngel

Thanks for the link, I watched it. I found it to be very interesting. Nearly all of the research done was in rats, but the results were pretty impressive. (I may be a little bit biased as this speaker is from my alma matar... )