Journal of the American Dietetic Association articles from September 1997

Journal of the American Dietetic Association archives from September 1997

Growing a healthy food system.
September 1, 1997... Rebuilding connections between farmers and consumers Although most people don't think about them, there are social and ecological consequences to the food choices we make. Dietitians are already expert at drawing the connections between food...

ADA action on food security and proposed federal regulations. (American Dietetic Association)
September 1, 1997... This past March, The American Dietetic Association's (ADA) House of Delegates (HOD) affirmed the Association's strong commitment to ensuring that all people have access to healthful food. At the HOD meeting, a motion "that the ADA promote food...

Community food systems: working toward a sustainable future.
September 1, 1997... The emerging environmental, economic, and social concerns regarding the way food is grown, processed, and distributed are making it imperative that dietetics professionals go beyond traditional food guidance to incorporate information that...

Association of cancer prevention-related nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes to cancer prevention dietary behavior.
September 1, 1997... Efforts to promote large-scale change in US eating behavior to prevent cancer have included issuing and disseminating recommendations in regard to health and, more specifically, nutrition. However, whether this approach alone is sufficient to...

Total energy expenditure in adults with cerebral palsy as assessed by doubly labeled water.
September 1, 1997... Currently, clinicians use a variety of approaches to estimate the energy needs of people with cerebral palsy (CP), including Recommended Dietary Allowances (1), formulas based on estimates of resting metabolic rate (RMR) (2), and clinically...

Rethinking postoperative diets for short-stay orthopedic surgery patients.
September 1, 1997... Changes in anesthesia and surgical techniques during the past decade have resulted in more rapid recovery and decreased length of stay for surgical patients, particularly those who are relatively healthy and undergo elective procedures (1,2)....

Relationship of nutritional status to length of stay, hospital costs, and discharge status of patients hospitalized in the medicine service.
September 1, 1997... The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients has been studied previously. Coats et al (1) found that 46% of general medical inpatients had a high likelihood of malnutrition. Other studies have demonstrated rates of malnutrition among...

Body fat percentage of children varies according to their diet composition.
September 1, 1997... Although a number of factors contributing to the development of obesity are well established, the etiology of obesity is still not clear. Although much research supports the basic energy-balance theory of obesity, other important factors also...

Fat-gram counting and food-record rating are equally effective for evaluating food records in reduced-fat diets.
September 1, 1997... Effective and consistent dietary intervention during lipid-altering clinical drug trials requires reliable techniques for food-intake monitoring. Food-record rating has been used as a diet-monitoring tool in numerous studies since its development...

Changes in carotenoid intake in the United States: the 1987 and 1992 National Health Interview Surveys.
September 1, 1997... Epidemiologic research has demonstrated a protective effect of high fruit and vegetable consumption on the risk of chronic diseases (1-3). Consumption of foods such as tomatoes, carrots, pumpkin, spinach, dark green leafy vegetables, green...

Dietetics and foodservice personnel are ready for team problem solving.
September 1, 1997... Success in the health care field today requires teamwork in both patient care and management systems (1). Many institutions have restructured to initiate patient-focused care programs or to reduce managerial layers. In either situation employees...

Clinical pathways in home nutrition support.
September 1, 1997... Physicians with expertise in many different medical specialties order home enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support (1). Most physicians obtain their knowledge of nutrition support during their residency training. Because the content of...

Pricing strategy to promote fruit and vegetable purchase in high school cafeterias.
September 1, 1997... Despite the health benefits of a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables, fewer than one third of adults and only about one fifth of children and adolescents meet national guidelines (1-8). Public health approaches to eating behavior change...

Intakes of nutrients and foods relevant to bone health in ethnically diverse youths.
September 1, 1997... Adolescents and young adults have notable potential for increased acquisition of bone mineral (1,2); yet, their mean calcium intakes are generally lower than the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) (3-6) and vary substantially by ethnicity....

Helen E. Walsh - 1906-1997.(Obituary)
September 1, 1997... Helen Walsh, MA, RD, 1948-1949 president of The American Dietetic Association (ADA) passed away on June 29, 1997. She had retired in 1971 as chief of the Bureau of Nutrition of the California Department of Health Services after an outstanding...