Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from August 1999

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from August 1999

The Linear Index Model for establishing nutrient goals in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Well controlled metabolic diet studies are conducted to examine the effects of nutrients or dietary factors on 1 or more physiologic parameter. When designing diets for a study, researchers traditionally establish amounts of the nutrients of...

Comparison of 4 nutrient databases with chemical composition data from the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Computerized nutrient analysis systems are integral to the practice of dietetics (1). Nutrition researchers, in particular, rely heavily on nutrient analysis systems for a variety of purposes, including the assessment of dietary intakes of...

Scope of practice: turf battle or quality of care?(health care professionals)
August 1, 1999... Widespread restructuring of the health care system during the past decade is forcing medical professionals, policy makers, and government agencies to rethink how the health care workforce is regulated. Developments such as new technologies,...

The child within: a guide to nutrition counseling for pregnant teens.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Here's the good news about teenaged motherhood: the teen birth rate in the United States declined 16% between 1991 and 1997, and 82.5% of all pregnant women in 1997 received some prenatal care (1). But the bad news is that teenaged morns are...

A commentary on the new obesity guidelines from NIH.(National Institutes of Health)
August 1, 1999... Although dietitians were involved in the development of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) obesity guidelines (1,2) it would be misleading to imply that all or even most dietetics professionals are eager to implement these guidelines....

Promoting body size acceptance in weight management counseling.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... The American Dietetic Association's position on weight management calls for a multifaceted approach to working with clients to achieve weight management (1). The goals of this approach include a healthful diet, moderate physical activity,...

Response to promoting size acceptance in weight management counseling.(response to Ellen S. Parham in this issue, p. 920)
August 1, 1999... At a time when the dietetics profession is directing so much effort toward establishing the relationship of weight status and illness risk and obtaining third-party payment for medical nutrition therapy, supporting weight acceptance without...

Factors influencing food choices of adolescents: findings from focus-group discussions with adolescents.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Nutritional intake during adolescence is important for growth, long-term health promotion, and the development of lifelong eating behaviors (1-3). Total nutrient needs are higher in adolescence than during any other time in the life cycle...

Factors related to adiposity among children aged 3 to 7 years.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Obesity is a growing public health concern among children in the United States (1). Childhood obesity may be influenced by distinct growth periods during early childhood. The first period occurs during the first year of life with rapid growth...

Factors other than environmental issues influence resource allocation decisions of school foodservice directors.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Since the mid-1980s, the business sector of the economy has been incorporating the concept of sustainability into traditional management strategies (1,2). Traditional management theory has focused on political, social, technological, and...

Dietary intake at child-care centers and away: are parents and care providers working as partners or at cross-purposes?(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... In 1965, only 6% of children younger than 5 years were cared for in child-care centers. By 1995, the numbers had risen to 31% cared for in child-care centers and another 14% cared for in family child-care homes (1). Employment trends and...

Anthropometric characteristics of Mohawk children aged 6 to 11 years: a population perspective.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is known to be markedly higher in Native North American communities compared with the general population, both in the United States (1-4) and Canada (5-9). It is also noted that type 2 diabetes is...

Maternal stress in caring for children with feeding disabilities: implications for health care providers.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... The growing number of children who survive complex medical problems has resulted in a continually increasing number of children with disabilities, many of whom experience eating disorders (1). Two decades ago, these children may have resided...

Development and implementation of a school-based nutrition and fitness promotion program for ethnically diverse middle-school girls.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Evidence is mounting regarding the multiple benefits of exercise and good nutrition (1-4). Physical activity and healthful eating may protect against a number of adolescent and adult public health concerns (1,5,6). Research indicates,...

Children and adolescents identify food concerns, forbidden foods, and food-related beliefs.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Studies of children and adolescents have shown that food and nutrition issues are important to young people and that children as young as 7 years old (1,2) are actively manipulating their diets to achieve specific nutrition objectives. In...

Nutrition professionals' knowledge of and attitudes toward the food industry's education and marketing programs in elementary schools.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Food industry marketers frequently use schools to get products and messages to children (1,2). According to James McNeal (3), an expert on marketing to children, children have money to spend, influence their families' food choices, and are...

Teaching medical school students total body composition assessment techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of obesity.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Obesity is an established risk factor for multiple chronic diseases and a major public health problem in the United States. Medical school education and training on topics of nutrition and, more specifically, nutritional diagnosis and...

Development and evaluation of a pictorial version of a WIC allowable foods list.(Colorado Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Traditionally, dietetics professionals have used computers to perform nutrient analysis (1,2), word processing, and spreadsheet applications (1). Emerging computer technology, however, provides individual users with the ability to easily...

Position of the American Dietetic Association: nutrition standards for child-care programs.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Child care is no longer an experience for a few children. Every day 13 million preschoolers - including 6 million babies and toddlers - are in child care in the United States (1). This number is 60% of the nation's young children - that is, 3...

Looking to the future - the role of the ADA environmental scan.(American Dietetic Association)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... To identify trends and position the dietetics profession for the future, The American Dietetic Association (ADA) conducted an environmental scan in 1998. The scan methodology and results were summarized in the March 1999 Journal (1). Since...

For a healthful lifestyle: promoting cooperation among nutrition professionals and physical activity professionals.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Health professionals look toward the combination of balanced nutrition and regular physical activity to help stem the rising tide of obesity that is threatening the health of people in the United States and throughout the world (1). The...

Lactation Specialist Self-Study Series.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Edited by Rebecca F. Black, MS, RD, Leasa Jarman, MS, and Jan Simpson, BSN, RN. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Barlett; 1998. Softcover. Price: $39.95 for each module. Everything you ever thought you needed to know about lactation and...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension: rationale, design, and methods.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Hypertension is a common condition in both economically developed and developing countries. In the United States, hypertension afflicts nearly 50 million adults and is prevalent in both sexes and all racial and ethnic groups (1). The...

Descriptive characteristics of the dietary patterns used in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Epidemiologic studies demonstrate that certain eating patterns are associated with a lower risk of a variety of diseases (1-4). A common practice in translating these patterns into testable, clinical hypotheses is to isolate nutrients that...

Pre-enrollment diets of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial participants.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Diet modification is a critical aspect of any effective strategy for hypertension prevention and control (1). Most recently, an eating pattern tested in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial has been recommended for blood...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension: a summary of study results.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Elevated blood pressure is a common condition among people in the United States. About one quarter of US adults have hypertension (ie, they have a blood pressure [greater than or equal to]140 mm Hg systolic or [greater than or equal to]90 mm...

Menu design and selection for multicenter controlled feeding studies: process used in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)
August 1, 1999... Human feeding studies are one of many techniques used to develop and test diet-disease hypotheses (1,2). Such studies employ numerous methodologies for meal delivery. The study design and feeding method must be carefully considered to...

Validation of diet composition for the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... As an intervention technique, controlled feeding is valuable for testing the efficacy of diets in modifying disease processes or outcomes. Computerized food composition databases are often used to design diets used in controlled feeding...

Recruitment and baseline characteristics of participants in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Recruitment of participants is among the most challenging aspects of conducting clinical trials. Participants must meet established eligibility criteria, must adhere to the study intervention or treatment, and must complete the data...

Dietary adherence in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Controlled feeding studies require disciplined participants who must consume all study foods and abstain from all other foods. Although inpatient studies offer a controlled environment in which dietary adherence can be scrutinized,...

The effects of dietary patterns on quality of life: a substudy of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Dietary recommendations to improve health or reduce disease risk are routinely made in health care settings. Although national recommendations for the dietary prevention and treatment of high blood pressure have been published (1), adherence...

Translating the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet from research to practice: dietary and behavior change techniques.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Hypertension affects about 25% of US adults and is a leading contributor to morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, and renal insufficiency (1). Lifestyle modifications have an important role...

The DASH diet, sodium intake and blood pressure trial (DASH-sodium): rationale and design.(The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... High blood pressure affects almost 50 million people in the United States, placing them at high risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases (1). Most persons with hypertension have stage 1 disease (systolic blood pressure 140 to 159...