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URI researchers study nutrition to counter spaceflight effects

Original: Nutritional Countermeasures to Spaceflight Studied at URI | Newswise

Researchers at the University of Rhode Island are studying nutritional countermeasures to the health effects of spaceflight. The work looks at how diet could help protect astronauts from the physical toll of traveling and living in space, a growing area of interest as space agencies and private companies plan longer missions to the Moon and Mars.

Why now: Interest is rising in keeping astronauts healthy on longer missions, making space nutrition a timely research topic.

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