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: The U.S. Senate authorized the National Academy of Sciences to investigate methods of Federal aid in discovering a cure for cancer.

On March 7, 1928, Senator Matthew Neely (D) of West Virginia introduced S. 3554, "To authorize the National Academy of Sciences to investigate the means and methods for affording Federal aid in discovering a cure for cancer and for other purposes.

On Febrary 4, 1927, Senator Neely proposed a bill that would offer a $5 million reward for the discovery of a cure for cancer.

Senator Neely's "reward" bill did not pass, but it was among the first in a series of proposed legislation that laid the groundwork for the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act.

In 1937, Senator's Matthew Neely and Homer Bone, with representative Warren Magnuson, introduced the National Cancer Institute Act, which was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt on August 5 of that year.

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Where do we come from?

Explore the genealogy of life science companies through one-of-a-kind posters!

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It's a Small World
	Bacteria Culture

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Science Quote

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

-	Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
(1854-1912)