Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from January 1997

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from January 1997

Replacing fat with food technology. (new fat replacement ingredients)
January 1, 1997... A brief review of new fat replacement ingredients For more than a decade, Americans have been told that reducing the amount of fat in their diets could help them live longer and healthier lives. This advice has been reiterated in numerous...

Looking ahead at public policy and the 105th Congress.
January 1, 1997... The day after the November 5 election, news reports announced that the American public had voted for the status quo. Yet, this election was the first in six decades to return a Republican-led Congress to office, and it has been nearly as many...

Scientific evidence + professional judgment + translation = consistent carbohydrate?
January 1, 1997... When associations take positions about clinical care recommendations, they must be based, as much as possible, on strong scientific evidence with accompanying expert consensus (1). Unfortunately, given the present state of knowledge, many times...

Fluid intake in the institutionalized elderly.
January 1, 1997... Proper hydration of the elderly is a concern often expressed by caregivers but frequently overlooked in practice. Researchers and practitioners (1-9) have observed that proper hydration is one of the most long-standing and pressing problems of...

"How do you remember you ate....?': a Delphi technique study to identify retrieval categories from fourth-grade children.
January 1, 1997... Survey researchers are aware that memory for autobiographical information is not dependable, and that inference, which helps to fill in the details that respondents cannot recall, is inexact and often misleading (1). Enhanced understanding of...

A worksite program for overweight middle-aged men achieves lesser weight loss with exercise than with dietary change.
January 1, 1997... Australians, in common with people of many developed countries, continue to become fatter and to exercise less despite public health messages advising weight control (1). Fifty percent of middle-aged Australian men are overweight (2),...

Translation of the diabetes nutrition recommendations for health care institutions: technical review.
January 1, 1997... The Nutrition Recommendations and Principles for People With Diabetes Mellitus (1,2) reflect current scientific nutrition and diabetes knowledge and consensus. The recommendations apply primarily to individuals receiving diabetes medical...

Translation of the diabetes nutrition recommendations for health care institutions: position statement.
January 1, 1997... The Nutrition Recommendations and Principles for People with Diabetes Mellitus (1,2) provide diabetes medical nutrition therapy guidelines for individuals living in a home setting; however, they do not include information about how to...

The new biology of body weight regulation.
January 1, 1997... Although the concept that body weight and adipose mass are subject to negative feedback control is not new, recent developments have substantially improved our understanding of how this regulation can occur. Chief among these is the discovery...

Clinical pathway nutrition management for outpatient bone marrow transplantation.
January 1, 1997... During more than two decades of autologous bone marrow transplantation, medical management has generally required patient hospitalization for at least a month with follow-up management in an outpatient setting (1). Follow-up clinic appointments...

Attitudes of registered dietitians toward personal overweight and overweight clients.
January 1, 1997... Studies show that students in health fields (1-4) and health professionals (5-9) in the United States have disparaging attitudes toward persons who are overweight. However, to our knowledge no study has assessed the attitudes of registered...

Low validity of a seven-item fruit and vegetable food frequency questionnaire among third-grade students.
January 1, 1997... Food consumption varies from day to day (Baranowski T, Smith M, Lin LS, Hearn MD, Baranowski J, Doyle C, Resnicow R, Thompson WO, Wang DT. Meal by day patterns in children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Unpublished data, 1996). By asking...

Assessing food purchase behavior among low-income black and Hispanic clients using a self-reported shelf inventory.
January 1, 1997... Food purchase behavior is directly affected by a number of factors such as client's knowledge of nutrition principles, financial constraints, availability of food supplies, and cultural beliefs and attitudes about food and health in general....

Position of the American Dietetic Association: weight management.
January 1, 1997... Obesity is a condition in which excess fat may put a person at health risk (1). Excess body fat results from the body's inability to balance caloric intake with energy expenditure. The prevalence and health risks associated with obesity...

President's page: technology - the bridge to the 21st century. (technological advances in medical practice)
January 1, 1997... Technology, and all its innovations, has been one of the hallmarks of the 20th century. Each technologic advance has resulted in more rapid discovery of newer, improved technologies. As we enter a new year, on the verge of the 21st century, we...

Report on the American Dietetic Association's member needs assessment/satisfaction study.
January 1, 1997... MEMBER NEEDS ASSESSMENT/SATISFACTION STUDY STEERING COMMITTEE In the spring of 1995, The American Dietetic Association (ADA) conducted a member needs assessment/satisfaction study. The research objective was to provide ADA's member leaders...