Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from January 1996

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from January 1996

Eating disorders in adolescents: a model for broadening our perspective.
January 1, 1996... Restrictive eating disorders have puzzled health care professionals and the general public in recent decades. The puzzlement continues, in part, because primary factors have been minimized or overlooked in investigations of these disorders. The...

Evaluation of predicted and measured energy requirements in burned children.
January 1, 1996... Nutrition management of thermally injured persons is indisputably recognized as a vital component of the overall treatment necessary to combat the deleterious effects of burn injury. Nutrition support is essential in the promotion of wound...

Predicted and measured resting metabolic rate of male and female endurance athletes.
January 1, 1996... Estimating energy expenditure is a common practice for nutrition and exercise science professionals. Such estimations can be particularly useful to endurance athletes, whose goals usually include achieving and maintaining body weight, percentage...

Residence of college students affects dietary intake, physical activity, and serum lipid levels.
January 1, 1996... Consuming a healthful diet and participating in regular physical activity can help to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, obesity, some...

Transformational leadership of clinical nutrition managers.
January 1, 1996... A strong need for leadership in dietetics exists today. Yet what do we mean by "leadership"? The traditional theories that have been used to define leadership in the past, such as trait theories (1,2), situational or environment theories (3), or...

Maternal intake of cruciferous vegetables and other foods and colic symptoms in exclusively breast-fed infants.
January 1, 1996... There is nothing in the field of pediatrics that is more bothersome to the physician, aggravating to parents and more painful to infants than persistent colic in newborns" (1, p 756). Through the work of Spock (2) and Aldrich (3) in the 1940s...

Indirect calorimetry in critically ill patients: role of the clinical dietician in interpreting results. (includes questionnaire)
January 1, 1996... Nutrition support is an important aspect of the care of critically ill patients. For patients, particularly those with underlying malnutrition or those who require long-term support in an intensive care unit (ICU), adequate energy intake with...

Binge eating among the overweight population: a serious and prevalent problem.
January 1, 1996... Obesity is a major public health problem in the United States. Recent data estimate that one third of the US population is overweight, which is defined as 20% or more above desirable weight (1). Obesity is well known for its enduring nature:...

Change in eating attitudes: an outcome measure of patients with eating disorders.
January 1, 1996... Clinical dietitians are currently being challenged to provide cost-effective quality care and to justify nutrition interventions with positive patient outcomes (1-3). The focus of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations...

Incidence of eating disorders among selected female university students.
January 1, 1996... Although the incidence of eating disorders has increased among the female college population during the past decade (1), limited research has been done in relation to students' chosen areas of study. Several studies in the early 1980s (2,3) found...

Satiety level does not affect reporting of energy intake as assessed by a food frequency questionnaire.
January 1, 1996... Clinical and epidemiologic nutrition research is based on the ability to estimate a person's nutrient intake. Presently, several methods are used: diet history, food diaries or records, 24-hour recalls, and food frequency questionnaires. Each...

Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire and Eating Disorder Inventory in the evaluation of psychological traits and emotional reactivity in obese patients.
January 1, 1996... The increased interest in cognitive behavioral strategies for the treatment of obesity has concentrated considerable attention on the evaluation of patients' eating behavior, personality traits, and emotional reactivity. The Three-Factor Eating...

Position of the American Dietetic Association: food irradiation.
January 1, 1996... The American Dietetic Association (ADA) and qualified dietetics professionals have a responsibility to educate consumers on issues related to food and nutrition. One such issue of importance to professionals and consumers is food irradiation....

Position of the American Dietetic Association: vitamin and mineral supplementation.
January 1, 1996... Research on the relationship between diet and disease has increased scientific interest in determining what nutrient intakes optimize health, and whether these intakes can be adequately provided by diet. Epidemiologic studies suggesting that high...