Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from April 1989

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from April 1989

Human Obesity, vol. 499, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
April 1, 1989... Human Obesity. Vol. 499. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Edited by Richard J. Wurtman and Judith J. Wurtman. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1987. Hardcover. Pp. 348. Price $87. This book reports...

Essential and Toxic Trace Elements in Human Health and Disease, Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, vol. 18.
April 1, 1989... Essential and Toxic Trace Elements in Human Health and Disease. Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease. Vol. 18 Edited by Anada S. Prasad. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1988. Hardcover. Pp. 328 Price $95. This...

Trace Elements in Human and Animal Nutrition, vols 1-2, 5th ed.
April 1, 1989... Trace Elements in Human and Animal Nutrition. Vols. 1 and 2 5th edition. Edited by Walter Mertz. San Diego: Academic Press, 1986. Hardcover Pp. 480. Price $69. This fifth edition provides clear testimony to the...

Clinical and Physiological Applications of Vitamin B-6, Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, vol. 19.
April 1, 1989... Clinical and Physiological Applications of Vitamin B-6. Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease. Vol. 19 Edited by James E. Leklem and Robert D. Reynolds. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1988. Hardcover. Pp. 470. Price $90....

Magnesium in Clinical Practice.
April 1, 1989... Magnesium in Clinical Practice By Jean Durlach. Translated by David Wilson. London: John Libbey & Co. (80/ 84 Bondway, SW8 1SF England), 1988. (French edition published in 1985.) Hardcover. Pp. 360. Price $68. ...

Foodservice in Institutions, 6th ed.
April 1, 1989... Foodservice in institutions 6th edition. By Bessie B. West and LeVele Wood. Revised by Virginia F. Harger, Grace S. Shugart, and June Payne-Palacio. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988. Hardcover. Pp. 662. Price ...

Applied Nutritional Principles in Health and Disease, World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 53.
April 1, 1989... Applied Nutritional Principles in Health and Disease. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics. Vol. 53 Edited by G.H. Bourne. Basel, Switzerland: Karger, 1987. Hardcover. Pp. 297. Price $182. Multi-authored volumes...

Drug-Nutrient Interactions.
April 1, 1989... Drug-Nutrient Interactions By TK. Basu. New York: Croom Helm, in association with Methuen, 1988. Hardcover. Pp. 160. Price $52.50. This book provides a concentrated overview of drug-nutrient interactions, placing emphasis on...

Toxicological Evaluation of Certain Food Additives, WHO Food Additives Series: 22.
April 1, 1989... Toxicological Evaluation of Certain Food Additives. WHO Food Additives Series: 22 Prepared by the 31st Meeting of the joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. International Programme on Chemical Safety New...

Focusing on the effectiveness side of the cost-effectiveness equation.
April 1, 1989... Margaret D. Simko, PhD, RD, and Martha T Conklin, MS, RD Department of Home Economics and Nutrition, New York University, New York, New York 10003, and Department of Home Economics, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New...

Risk taking isn't risky like it used to be.
April 1, 1989... Risk taking has always involved fear of the unknown. In today's dietetic market, the status quo involves fear of the unknown. Change is happening at an alarming rate. Dietitians must grow just to stay even. The most successful...

Productivity of the clinical dietitian: measurement by a regression model.
April 1, 1989... As a result of the federal government's 1983 enactment of the prospective payment system based on Diagnostic Related Groups, much interest has been directed toward improved management of costs throughout the health care system. A predominant...

Attributes and qualifications that employers seek when hiring dietitians in business and industry.
April 1, 1989... In the 1980s, dietetics has come to encompass a broader field of practice. The dietetic profession has expanded to include career opportunities in the business world (1-4). A major finding of the 1981 Technical Report #4, An Assessment of the...

Energy need for weight maintenance in human beings: effect of body size and composition. (includes Self-Assessment Questionnaire for RDs)
April 1, 1989... There are a number of techniques for estimating total energy expenditure of human subjects. These include the use of the whole body calorimeter and measurement of the turnover rate of doubly labelled water (deuterium-oxygen-18), both of which...

Determinants of attitude toward death by students enrolled in coordinated undergraduate dietetic programs.
April 1, 1989... Fear of death is as old as mankind. Human death is increasingly viewed as a phenomenon to be controlled, denied, or ignored (1). Terminally ill individuals are often segregated in our culture by hospitalizing the dying, isolating the aged in...

Comparison of family interaction patterns related to food and nutrition.
April 1, 1989... Nutrition educators have recognized the role that parents play as nutrition educators (1-6) and have examined the need to include parents in children's nutrition education programs (3,7-11). The purpose of the study reported in this article was...

Use of a consultant to assist a dietetic association in its media and public relations efforts. (DIAL-A-DIETITIAN program)
April 1, 1989... Public interest in nutrition and health remains at an all-time high. Dietitians, though uniquely trained to provide expert nutrition advice, increasingly find themselves vying for the role of nutrition educator with high-profile,...

Development of a productivity index to increase accountability of ambulatory nutrition services.
April 1, 1989... With the advent and implementation of prospective payment systems, alternatives to traditional health care provision are rapidly emerging. One of the trends is an increased focus on outpatient services as opposed to more costly inpatient...

Nutritional impact of acquired immune deficiency syndrome: a unique counseling opportunity. (includes Self-Assessment Questionnaire for RDs and DTRs)
April 1, 1989... The emergence of AIDS has generated a complexity of issues regarding the nutritional status of affected patients. The majority of AIDS patients have the potential for compromised nutritional status due to a depressed immune system. Poor...

Incorporating hard boxes and soft bubbles into the dietetics curriculum.
April 1, 1989... Management literature abounds with metaphors whose meanings challenge the innovative thinker. Examples include hard boxes versus soft bubbles, right brain versus left brain skills, thinking forward versus thinking backward, white collar...

A multifactorial weight control program in a corporate setting.
April 1, 1989... Obesity has become a major health problem in America. it is estimated that at least one-fifth of the adult population is more than 20% overweight (1). Overweight individuals are at a higher-than-normal risk for hypertension, hyperlipidemia,...

Core, secondary, and peripheral foods in the diets of Hispanic, Navajo, and Jemez Indian children.
April 1, 1989... Dietitians and nutritionists are aware of the importance of social and cultural factors in shaping food patterns (1,2). A previous article reported on food intake of children in rural northwestern New Mexico, comparing regional food patterns...

Social marketing of nutrition education to cardiac patients in acute care.
April 1, 1989... Several risk factors for heart disease respond to nutrition intervention. The risk factors include elevated blood lipids, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and obesity (1). The goal of nutrition intervention in heart disease is to help...

Nutrition education at the work site: a team approach.
April 1, 1989... Nutrition is a key component of health promotion (1,2). The importance of leadership by dietetic professionals in health promotion programs has been stressed (1,3,4), and health promotion will be more important to dietitians in the future...

Targeting messages to supplement users. (vitamin & mineral supplements)
April 1, 1989... Vitamin and mineral supplement usage is widespread in the U.S. (1-5). Higher usage rates have been reported for women (1-3) and Westerners (1,3). Some supplement users (6,7) reportedly have intakes higher than safe levels (8,9). Although...

Following up on a commercial weight loss program: do the pounds stay off after your picture has been in the newspaper?
April 1, 1989... A multitude of commercial weight loss programs are available and are being aggressively marketed in the popular press. Advertisements offer descriptions of medically-based, physician-supervised treatment, appealing to individuals expecting...

President's page: documenting the economic costs and benefits of nutrition services.
April 1, 1989... A significant landmark in the Association's Nutrition Services Payment System (NSPS) activity is the publication of this month's Journal supplement, "The Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review" J Am Diet Assoc Vol. 89,...

Efficacy of graduate education in dietetics: influence of role delineation.
April 1, 1989... Since 1959, the routes to membership in The American Dietetic Association (ADA) have included an advanced degree in a related field. In the years since 1959, the evolutionary process has resulted in the Didactic Program in Dietetics (Plan V)...

Introduction. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Policymakers, administrators, and third-party payors, both public and private, seek documentation of the value of expenditures made for nutrition services (1). Recognizing this, the Board of Directors of The American Dietetic Association...

Ambulatory nutrition care: pregnant women. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Nutrition intervention during pregnancy has become an integral component of prenatal care. Services range from those provided on an as-needed basis by the physician during obstetric visits to comprehensive nutrition assessment and counseling...

Ambulatory nutrition care: infants. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Few studies evaluating nutrition interventions for infants have been reported, and very little information is available on the costs and the benefits of providing nutrition services for families with infants. in an extensive 1979 review,...

Ambulatory nutrition care: children. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Nutrition programs for children typically take place in a school or clinic setting. A school classroom is the most common setting for nutrition and health education programs that focus on knowledge outcomes. Programs with clinical outcome...

Ambulatory nutrition care: adults - atherosclerosis. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Atherosclerosis is a precursor Of most cardiovascular disease. Primary risk factors for development of atherosclerosis are elevated plasma cholesterol, hypertension, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and obesity (1). All of the risk factors,...

Ambulatory nutrition care: adults - hypertension. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Hypertension in adults is defined as two or more diastolic measurements averaging 90 mm Hg or higher on at least two visits or a systolic pressure [greater than]140 mm Hg from multiple measurements taken at several different times (1). ...

Ambulatory nutrition care: adults - weight reduction and management. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Weight control education is an important component of nutrition services, since development of chronic diseases such as noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and some types of cancer, have been...

Ambulatory nutrition care: adults - diabetes mellitus. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Current treatment for diabetes includes dietary modification, exercise, and frequently drug therapy either as insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents. However, many people with diabetes can manage their disease through dietary manipulation alone....

Ambulatory nutrition care: adults - renal disease. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Nutritional treatment of both acute and chronic kidney disease may reduce the cost of medical therapies and improve the quality of life of the patient. A four-stage model of the course of "infectious kidney disease" was developed by Menz (1):...

Ambulatory nutritional care: adults - home health. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Two different types of home health services will be discussed in this section. One is for people who require specialized nutrition support services as therapy for disease conditions. The other is home services to assist older adults with...

Ambulatory nutrition care: senior adults. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... For the purpose of this review, the term senior adults is defined as people who are 60 years of age or older. A comprehensive literature search to identify the costs and benefits of nutrition services for senior adults revealed that most...

Inpatient nutrition care: pediatrics. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Infants and children who are hospitalized are very critically ill patients with great nutritional needs. The specialized care required for this group is costly, and evaluation of the services is needed to ascertain the most cost-effective...

Inpatient nutrition care: adults - diabetes mellitus. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Traditionally, patients with diabetes, whether newly or previously diagnosed, receive self-care education during hospital admissions. Only two studies were found to have documented the effectiveness of this method of education, and only one...

Inpatient nutrition care: adults - enteral and parenteral nutrition. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... Since 1968, when Dudrick et al. (1) proposed parenteral feeding as a means to reduce malnutrition in hospitalized patients, numerous attempts have been made to document the value of both the enteral and the parenteral modes of nourishment....

Inpatient nutrition care: senior adults. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... While there is a body of literature related to the cost of care for the seniors who are residents of intermediate care facilities and skilled nursing homes as well as the nutritional care for these people, no publications relating the cost or...

Summary. (Costs and Benefits of Nutrition Services: A Literature Review)
April 1, 1989... In the past ten years, since The American Dietetic Association began to examine the costs and the benefits of nutritional care, increased research has been conducted. More information has emerged about the benefits of nutrition services than...