Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$97,595.00

Award Date

9/08/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The contribution of non-homeostatic factors to the recent increase of obesity incidence in Westernized populations such as the U.S., has now come to be appreciated. Ready availability and affordability of palatable, high caloric density foods; activation