Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from June 1999

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from June 1999

Federal role in nutrition education, research, and food assistance for women and their families.
June 1, 1999... Nutritional factors contribute substantially to the burden of preventable illness and premature death for women in the United States. Dietary factors are associated with 4 of the 10 leading causes of death - coronary heart disease, cancer,...

Dietary applications of the Stages of Change Model.
June 1, 1999... During the past 2 decades, the Transtheoretical Model (or Stages of Change Model) has become one of the most influential theoretical models within the health psychology area. The model consists of 3 dimensions: the central organizing construct...

How can stages of change be best used in dietary interventions?
June 1, 1999... The stages of change construct can be helpful in designing, delivering, and evaluating interventions to help people adopt more healthful diets. This article reviews some of the key findings from research on stages of dietary change, and in...

Dietary advice to reduce fat intake is more successful when it does not restrict habitual eating patterns.
June 1, 1999... In the past decade there has been renewed interest in the possibility that higher eating frequencies are associated with lower levels of plasma cholesterol (1-4). Two mechanisms have been proposed: one maintains that increased eating frequency...

Sensory responses to fat are not affected by varying dietary energy intake from fat and saturated fat over ranges common in the American diet.
June 1, 1999... Americans are consuming diets that provide approximately 34% of energy from fat and 12% to 13% of energy from saturated fat according to data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Continuing Survey of Food...

The Diet Quality Index revised: a measurement instrument for populations.
June 1, 1999... The original Diet Quality Index (DQI) was developed as a composite assessment of diet (1). It included measures of 8 food group and nutrient-based recommendations from the Committee on Diet and Health of the National Research Council Food and...

Innovative newsletter interventions improve fruit and vegetable consumption in health adults.
June 1, 1999... Although national surveys suggest that fruit and vegetable consumption has modestly increased in recent years, many American adults still fall short of the recommended "5 a day" (1-5). Changing eating behaviors requires nutrition interventions...

Dietary intake and body mass index of adults in 2 Ojibwe communities.
June 1, 1999... Many changes have occurred during the past century in the lifestyles of the Ojibwe and other North American native peoples as a result of cultural, political, and environmental effects of European settlement (1). These changes have affected the...

Using 3 data sources and methods to shape a nutrition campaign.
June 1, 1999... Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better is a community-based communications campaign that seeks to promote more healthful lifestyles among African-American women aged 18 to 35 years in 3 communities in Boston, Mass. The campaign's dual focus on...

Practitioners' guide to meeting the vitamin B-12 recommended dietary allowance for people aged 51 years and older.
June 1, 1999... In response to research findings that 10% to 30% of people aged 51 years and older may have protein-bound vitamin B12 malabsorption, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine 1998 report made this recommendation: Adults aged 51...

Stages of change for reducing fat and increasing fiber among dietitians and adults with a diet-related chronic disease.
June 1, 1999... People learn about and adopt recommended practices over a period of time, often with episodes of regression and progression. This process has been represented by the Transtheoretical Model (1-3), which posits that consumers move through a...

Fat content of restaurant meals: comparison between menu and experimental values.
June 1, 1999... The frequency of dining away from the home has been steadily increasing in recent years (1-4). In fact, the average American ate approximately 4 meals per week outside of the home in 1991 (1). The amount of money being spent on food consumed...

Serving meals of reduced portion size did not improve appetite among elderly in a personal-care section of a long-term-care community.
June 1, 1999... Poor appetites occur among elderly residents in long-term care facilities and are attributed to physical and pathologic changes (1). Residents with diminished appetites struggle with weight loss and are at nutritional risk (2). Improving food...

Ethnic differences in body image attitudes and perceptions among women infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
June 1, 1999... Weight loss is a notable and frequent complication of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (1). Currently, the therapies for this disorder include human growth hormone, megestrol acetate, anabolic hormones, and dronabinol (2)....

Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: women's health and nutrition.
June 1, 1999... Until recently, women's health only involved issues of the reproductive system. However, within the past 10 years it has evolved to a much broader paradigm, well beyond reproduction. From a physiological perspective, women's health now refers...