Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from July 1997

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from July 1997

FANSA releases statement about dietary supplement labeling. (Food and Nutrition Science Alliance)
July 1, 1997... Labeling regulations for foods and dietary supplements have been in a state of flux during the 1990s. First came the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, then the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. Additional labeling...

Messages for the masses: food and nutrition issues on television.
July 1, 1997... National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr once said, "If you don't exist in the media, for all practical purposes you don't exist" (1). This would appear to be an important adage for movie stars and politicians, but is it also true for dietetics...

Dual Medicare-Medicaid eligibility spurs health care reform.
July 1, 1997... Most persons enrolled in Medicare, the federal health insurance program for elderly or disabled persons, pay for a portion of their benefits through insurance premiums and co-payments. But about 6 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries qualify...

Dietetics and nutrition: impact of scientific advances and development.
July 1, 1997... During the past two decades, there have been striking advances in knowledge related to dietetics and nutrition. As a result, the frontiers of nutrition science and the frontiers of dietetics have greatly expanded (1). During that same period...

Population nutrient intake approaches dietary recommendations: 1991 to 1995 Framingham Nutrition Studies.
July 1, 1997... The role of diet in human health and disease has long been recognized. As early as 1902, Atwater (1) advised that improper diet could result in "general debility, perhaps in actual disease." Throughout the 20th century, the accumulation of...

Food preferences predict eating behavior of very young Mohawk children.
July 1, 1997... The prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Native Americans is 2 to 10 times the rate in the US population as a whole, and the rate of development of this disorder is increasing (1,2). In the Mohawk community of Akwesasne the...

Among young adults, college students and graduates practiced more healthful habits and made more healthful food choices than did nonstudents.
July 1, 1997... Today's young adults are the first generation to have grown up with the benefit of the current dietary recommendations to reduce fat intake and increase complex carbohydrate and fiber intake (1-5). Early exposure to these messages, which are...

Nutrition Screening Initiative checklist may be a better awareness/educational tool than a screening one.
July 1, 1997... Adequate nutritional status has been recognized as an important factor in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease (1,2). The elderly population is particularly prone to inadequate nutritional status because of several factors: age-related...

Creatine supplementation enhances muscular performance during high-intensity resistance exercise.
July 1, 1997... During high-intensity exercise, energy needed for the resynthesis of adenosine triphosphate is met primarily by the simultaneous breakdown of phosphocreatine and anaerobic glycolysis. However, the resynthesis of adenosine triphosphate from...

Common health problems among minority elders.
July 1, 1997... This article reviews common health problems of elders of the following minority groups: African-American, Hispanic American, Asian/Pacific Islander American, and Native American. Separation of human beings into racial groupings is not valid...

Twenty years of WIC: a review of some effects of the program. (Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program)
July 1, 1997... The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of some of the effects the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has had on participants. The first two sections outline briefly the history of WIC, the...

Functions of dietitians providing nutrition support to patients with inherited metabolic disorders.
July 1, 1997... Inherited metabolic disorders are often diagnosed during the neonatal period or early infancy, and patients with these disorders require lifelong nutrition support. Although these patients generally are treated in pediatric ambulatory clinics,...

Continuing professional education questionnaire for RDs and DTRs.
July 1, 1997... After reading the continuing education article, "Functions of dietitians providing nutrition support to patients with inherited metabolic disorders," please answer the following questions by indicating your responses on the self-assessment...

Profile of American-trained dietitians in the international setting: survey of the members of the American Overseas Dietetic Association.
July 1, 1997... In 1994, Parks and Bajus (1) looked at the evolving global perspective and noted that as free economic trade between nations becomes a reality, the free exchange of ideas and information between dietetics communities should become a reality as...

Honest but invalid: what subjects say about recording their food intake.
July 1, 1997... Misreporting of dietary intakes has long been a concern in studies using self-reported data, and the extent of underreporting in particular has been highlighted by comparisons of reported energy intakes and measured expenditure (1-4). There is,...

'We think your son has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome'- a case study of monosodium glutamate's effect on a child.
July 1, 1997... Glutamate is a naturally occurring nonessential amino acid that serves as one of the body's excitatory neurotransmitters (1). It occurs in food as either a free amino acid or bound as a constituent in proteins. Although foods high in protein (eg,...

President's page: cultural competence creates value.(President's Page)
July 1, 1997... American writer Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" tells about a happy-go-lucky fellow during the Colonial period who lived in a village near the Hudson River. One day, he strolled into the woods to escape the toils of farm work and the tyranny...

Case Studies in Allied Health Ethics.
July 1, 1997... This timely book on biomedical ethics is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, and especially for dietitians who serve on hospital ethics committees. Specific allied health professionals addressed in this book include registered...

Weight Control.
July 1, 1997... Thank heavens! Someone has finally explained how the majority of the medical community, both in the United States and internationally, came to rely on the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tables as the authority for what constitutes a healthy body...

Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human Diet.
July 1, 1997... This report is a thoughtful and thorough review of the literature on causative agents (carcinogens) and protective agents (anticarcinogens) in the diet that affect the risk of cancer in human beings, and compares potential cancer risk from...

Nutrition Basics: The ABCs of Eating Rightly.
July 1, 1997... Nutrition Basics: The ABCs of Eating Right is an excellent video program featuring Liz Weiss, a former correspondent for CNN's Food and Health News unit and an American Dietetic Association President's Circle Award winner. Weiss states the...