Animal species varying in size and musculoskeletal design all support and move their body weight. This implies the existence of evolutionarily conserved feedback between sensors that produce quantitative signals encoding body weight and proximate determinants of musculoskeletal designs. Although studies at the level of whole organisms and tissue morphology and function clearly indicate that mus...

1 Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 2Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute (TAARI), David Braley Research Institute, Hamilton General Hospital Campus, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada 3 Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, C...

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The purpose of this article is to explore the delivery of nutrition education to collegiate student-athletes through an academic course. Existing literature has established the need for nutrition education among collegiate athletes. This article considers the collaboration of the university and the athletic department to better serve this population. Academic wellness courses for student-athlet...