Hardy, Ralph W.F.2017-06-062017-06-062009-03-06https://hdl.handle.net/1813/50989The paper stresses the possibilities of integrating beneficial traits via ag biotech into common foods to integrate nutrition and health care and presents a possible action plan to initiate research and how to fund it.Delivery of healthcare is a pressing social, economic, technical and political challenge, 75% of health care expenditure in the US are for diet-related chronic diseases, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc. Emphasis has been on therapeutic and surgical treatments after disease development instead of prevention through food and diet. We need a structure that integrates food and agricultural research as a full partner in the national health-research mission.en-USAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalAgricultural biotechnolgyhealthbiosourced thearapeuticsbiopharmafunctional foodsreport