Human Ecology Forum articles from September 1994

Human Ecology Forum archives from September 1994

The cruel weapon - food. (food blockades)
September 22, 1994... Using food as a weapon for political purposes has devastating consequences for innocent people and isn't even effective as a strategy, says Michael C. Latham, professor of nutritional sciences and director of the Program in International...

To your health: a plant-based diet. (Nutrition and Health)
September 22, 1994... College researchers have been conducting in China the most comprehensive diet-disease study ever undertaken. The findings suggest that a radical rethinking of diet may be key to disease prevention. In every industrialized country, affluence is...

China study shows diet-disease connection.
September 22, 1994... T. Colin Campbell, Chen Junshi, and their colleagues gathered information on the nutritional, metabolic, hormonal, environmental, reproductive, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics of 6,500 individuals living in counties in rural and...

Look to the world to care for a child.
September 22, 1994... The United States can learn from the child care policies and programs of other countries. But our focus should be more on African and Latin American countries and less on Europe. Child rearing can't reasonably be done in isolation but only as...

Child care in a changing world.
September 22, 1994... Modernization has changed the structure of households, the role of women, and the way people care for children. International researchers are attempting to determine how specific care arrangements affect the social and cognitive development of...

Study looks at three types of U.S. child care.
September 22, 1994... A team of international researchers is attempting to arrive at how child care options are affecting the development of children. As a model for their project, the researchers are using a U.S. day care study carried out by Marion Potts. Conducted...

Analyzing economic reform policies in Africa.
September 22, 1994... More than a decade of economic reform has brought little improvement to the lives of Africa's poor. Economists in the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program are attempting to find out why. Structural adjustment is a common phrase among...

Rural development in Africa: in for the long haul.
September 22, 1994... Improving the quality of life in rural Ghana can be as easy as digging a well. Easy? That's only the beginning. For international aid projects to be successful, they must engage the input and commitment of the entire community. The African...

Infant growth charts need revision.
September 22, 1994... Infants whose growth falls below WHO reference charts may be unnecessarily put at risk by efforts to boost weight gain. The current World Health Organization (WHO) references on normal growth for infants are faulty, causing undue alarm among...

An international perspective on American health care.
September 22, 1994... Every year, health care executives from around the world come to Cornell for a weeklong conference. And every year, they return home amazed that the world's wealthiest nation still has not been able to ensure basic health care for all its...

Vitamin A for moms helps nursing infants.
September 22, 1994... Providing vitamin A supplements to lactating mothers in developing countries significantly improves the vitamin A status of their nursing infants, potentially reducing the otherwise high risk of blindness and even death, according to a Cornell...

Baby boomers to inherit record amount.
September 22, 1994... The "baby boom" generation stands to inherit the biggest bounty ever--more than $10 trillion--an average of $90,000 each (in 1989 dollars), according to a new study that updates a study two years ago with current figures. "These inheritances...

Endowments for faculty support, program support, and student aid are priority needs.
September 22, 1994... From the very early years of the college, concerned alumni and friends have provided for the college's future by endowing scholarships and funds. In 1923 the New York State Federation of Home Bureaus established a scholarship award in honor of...