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 Eat a steak, get an A in your math class…or something like that. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back. Recently, the Idaho Beef Council stepped up to the plate with a grant of over $90,000 for University of Idaho dietician and researcher Cynthia Blanton. And by the way, when I said stepped up to the plate I didn’t mean home base, I meant dinner plate. Cynthia is directing a research study that will attempt to evaluate the contribution that beef makes to the intellect. Here she is: “Previously, at a lab where I worked we found cognition was associated with certain nutrient parameters that are measured in the blood and some of these nutrients are very well absorbed from beef. So I’m looking at the question if certain nutrients in the blood contributed by beef would raise cognitive function.” In her study, Blanton will feed a variety of meats including beef to 75 undergraduate women from the ages of 19 to 30in order to determine  if associated nutrients make a difference in their everyday activities.