Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from April 1994

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from April 1994

Nutritional aspects of ambulatory practice: oxidized LDL, antioxidant nutrients and CAD. (low-density lipoprotein; coronary artery disease)
April 1, 1994... For years it has been accepted that elevated serum levels of both total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) and decreased levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) are associated with an increased risk of coronary artery...

The seven personal habits of highly effective dieticians.
April 1, 1994... Improving the quality of your self and your career Each of us strives for effectiveness in our career and personal life. Effectiveness comes when there is a balance between the desired results and the ability to produce those results. But how...

What every RD should know about ATP II. (adult treatment panel)
April 1, 1994... The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) announced its Second Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel, ATP II) in June 1993. ATP II reinforces the...

Effective leadership begins with seven habits: an interview with Stephen R. Covey. (Commentary) (Interview)
April 1, 1994... Don't dismiss Stephen R. Covey, PhD, MBA, as just another self-appointed management guru. He may be one of the most successful management consultants in the world, but the message Covey repeats in hundreds of lectures each year is that the key...

Attitudes and opinions of dietetics professionals toward cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses.
April 1, 1994... The health care industry has examined the value of finance and accounting strategies to assist in the evaluation of alternative ways to deliver services. For years, economists have used cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and cost-effectiveness...

Strategies for increasing third-party reimbursement for nutrition counseling. (includes related article)
April 1, 1994... Obtaining third-party reimbursement for outpatient nutrition services is an increasingly urgent concern for the dietetics profession. At present, outpatient nutrition services are generally covered poorly. Many factors have been identified as...

Determining the complexity of patient satisfaction with foodservices.
April 1, 1994... To survive in the competitive jungle of the health care industry of the 1990s, administrative dietitians have been forced to focus their concern on patient satisfaction. During the past decade, pressures to control costs and improve the quality...

Lipid levels in adults with cystic fibrosis.
April 1, 1994... Cystic fibrosis is the most common life-shortening, inherited disease in the white population (1). It occurs once in every 2,500 births. Cystic fibrosis has been reported in all racial and ethnic groups, although it is rare in ethnic groups...

Key modifiable factors in weight maintenance: fat intake, exercise, and weight cycling.
April 1, 1994... There is little agreement among researchers about the specific factors involved in the high recidivism rate in weight loss. Initial weight, past dieting history, personality, locus of control, and social support have all been reported to play a...

Experience with enteral nutrition in a hospital population of acutely ill patients.
April 1, 1994... Before the 1960s, enteral nutrition, either by tube or orally, was the only aggressive way to ailment patients. Written accounts of feeding by tube first appeared at the end of the 16th century (1). Over time, much attention was paid to...

Quality delegation grid: a decision tool for evaluating delegation of management tasks in hospital dietetics departments.
April 1, 1994... Delegation of tasks to dietetics support personnel has been a topic of discussion since World War II. Continued emphasis has been placed on changing utilization patterns, reducing staff, and introducing labor-saving devices because of an...

Soluble fiber and serum lipids: literature review.
April 1, 1994... Classification of plant fibers on the basis of water solubility may provide a guide as to which fibers have the potential to lower serum lipid levels. The water-soluble fibers include pectins, gums, mucilages, algal polysaccharides, some...

Evaluation of nutrition counseling in clinical settings: do we make a difference?
April 1, 1994... To do work that makes a difference is not only a common aspiration of nutrition professionals, but something that is now being demanded in order to preserve funding levels for nutrition services (1). Dietitians working in clinical settings need...

Nutrition services in neonatal intensive care: a national survey.
April 1, 1994... Rapidly advancing technology in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has enabled smaller and smaller babies to survive the neonatal period (1). These tiny babies pose complex nutrition issues for the medical team. The National Research...

Dietary intake of adolescents with Crohn's disease.
April 1, 1994... The adolescent years are characterized by a dramatic increase in height and the development of secondary sexual characteristics. Severe impairment of linear growth, retarded skeletal maturation, and delayed sexual development occur in an...

Providers of food to homeless and hungry people need more dairy, fruit, vegetable, and lean-meat items.
April 1, 1994... Malnutrition has been identified as a health problem of homeless people (1,2). Because of the risk for malnutrition, we were interested in determining which foods private agencies provided to homeless and hungry people through food pantries....

Effects of nutrition education on calcium intake in the elderly.
April 1, 1994... Osteoporosis is an age-related decrease in bone density that occurs in both sexes, especially in women within 15 to 20 years of menopause. This condition is responsible for an increase in mortality and morbidity, and loss in functional...

Position of The American Dietetic Association: nutrition care for pregnant adolescents.
April 1, 1994... POSITION STATEMENT It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that pregnant adolescents have unique biologic, psychosocial, and developmental vulnerabilities placing them at nutrition risk. Throughout their pregnancies,...

President's page: creating your future - career opportunities in an era of change.
April 1, 1994... Hallet (1) predicts that "the creation of a productive and meaningful workplace in the future will require nothing less than a complete shift in the basic models and assumptions that have driven our ideas of work and employment for the past 80...

For a Better Nutrition in the 21st Century.
April 1, 1994... What distinguishes For a Better Nutrition in the 21st Century is the wide range of topics and issues that are discussed and explored. The book is a compilation of papers presented at the 27th workshop sponsored by Nestle Nutrition Services. The...

Disorders of Nutrition and Metabolism in Clinical Surgery.
April 1, 1994... A more appropriate title for this interesting text would have been, "The Application of Body Composition Studies to Nutrition and Metabolism in Clinical Surgery." Hill, a surgeon and noted investigator of body composition, shares his extensive...

America's Foods, Health Messages, and Claims. Scientific, Regulatory, and Legal Issues.
April 1, 1994... This book, which is the published proceedings of a symposium held when controversy over health claims was at its height, offers a revealing look at discussions among food industry executives and their congressional and agency regulators in...

Food-Medication Interactions. (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 1, 1994... Equipment Required To run this program, an IBM or compatible computer with DOS 2.0 or greater, 340K RAM, a hard disk drive with 5 Mb available memory, a monochrome or color monitor, and a printer are needed. Major Function This is a...