Through the Agriculture Research Service ARS Account. The recipient of this request, the North Carolina Research Campus, will work with the UNC-Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute and the North Carolina State University Institute for Fruit and Vegetable Science to propose the creation of a new United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Center. This new Center will focus on using cutting edge genomic, proteomic and metabolomic biotechnology to develop innovative approaches to designing healthier agricultural products and to understanding the role of diet and activity in normal brain development, preventing cancer and preventing obesity. Furthermore, the Center will evaluate how nutrition enhances human health -- using individual variations in metabolism to develop custom solutions that target individual susceptibilities and differences. The ARS Human Nutrition Center will benefit taxpayers by allowing researchers to better understand the impact that diet and exercise have on preventing cancer, type II diabetes and obesity. Furthermore, the Center will evaluate how nutrition affects human health on an individual basis and will develop custom solutions that target individual responses to diet and nutrition. The ARS Human Nutrition Center will also generate job growth in the Kannapolis, North Carolina region.