Download or read book Nutrition Extension Activities of Health Personnel written by Cecily Dignan and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Nutrition Research and Education Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document records the oral and written testimony given at a Congressional hearing on nutrition research and education as carried out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Witnesses included officials from the Department, professors and administrators from various university nutrition programs, and medical doctors. Testimony stressed the expanding role that nutrition is playing and should play in the improvement of the health of Americans. More nutrition research was advocated, as well as more use of such research on the local level, such as through the Cooperative Extension Service and training for local medical practitioners. Increasing nutrition knowledge and action by the public could substantially lower health care costs, and testimony supported Department of Agriculture programs such as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that aim to prevent low birth weight babies. (KC)
Download or read book Family Nutrition Guide written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide contains information designed to improve the feeding and nutrition of families in developing countries, primarily written for health workers, nutritionists and other development workers involved in community education programmes. Topics cover basic nutrition, family food security, meal planning, food hygiene and the special feeding needs of children, women and men, old, sick and malnourished people.
Download or read book Improving America s Diet and Health written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and organized to be accessible to a wide range of readers, Improving America's Diet and Health explores how Americans can be persuaded to adopt healthier eating habits. Moving well beyond the "pamphlet and public service announcement" approach to dietary change, this volume investigates current eating patterns in this country, consumers' beliefs and attitudes about food and nutrition, the theory and practice of promoting healthy behaviors, and needs for further research. The core of the volume consists of strategies and actions targeted to sectors of societyâ€"government, the private sector, the health professions, the education communityâ€"that have special responsibilities for encouraging and enabling consumers to eat better. These recommendations form the basis for three principal strategies necessary to further the implementation of dietary recommendations in the United States.
Download or read book Guidelines for Training Community Health Workers in Nutrition written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for trainers of community health workers, these guidelines are intended to help them instruct, in a practical way, those workers in how to improve nutrition in their areas. The book is divided into nine modules, each concerned with a different aspect of the community health worker's training. Each module first sets forth the learning objectives, then describes the content of the training, and finally gives a number of exercises to test the trainee's learning. The book is illustrated with numerous line drawings and charts. Topics covered in the modules are (1) getting to know the community and its needs; (2) measuring and monitoring the growth and nutrition of children; (3) breast-feeding; (4) diets for young children; (5) nutrition of the mother; (6) identification, management, and prevention of common nutritional deficiencies; (7) diarrhea and nutrition; (8) nutrition and infection; and (9) nutrition and the community: getting started. An annex, "Training Hints," explains how to plan training, selection and use of teaching aids, choice of teaching methods, and how to collect information on the community. (YLB)
Download or read book Agriculture Food and Nutrition for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation s Elderly written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malnutrition and obesity are both common among Americans over age 65. There are also a host of other medical conditions from which older people and other Medicare beneficiaries suffer that could be improved with appropriate nutritional intervention. Despite that, access to a nutrition professional is very limited. Do nutrition services benefit older people in terms of morbidity, mortality, or quality of life? Which health professionals are best qualified to provide such services? What would be the cost to Medicare of such services? Would the cost be offset by reduced illness in this population? This book addresses these questions, provides recommendations for nutrition services for the elderly, and considers how the coverage policy should be approached and practiced. The book discusses the role of nutrition therapy in the management of a number of diseases. It also examines what the elderly receive in the way of nutrition services along the continuum of care settings and addresses the areas of expertise needed by health professionals to provide appropriate nutrition services and therapy.
Download or read book Nutrition Education in the K 12 Curriculum written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems. Approximately one-third of America's young people are overweight or obese. Health problems once seen overwhelmingly in adults, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, are increasingly appearing in youth. Though the health of Americans has improved in many broad areas for decades, increases in obesity could erode these and future improvements. The IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation recognized the importance of the school environment in addressing the epidemic and recommended making schools a focal point for obesity prevention. The development and implementation of K-12 nutrition benchmarks, guides, or standards (for a discussion of these terms, see the next section of this chapter) would constitute a critical step in achieving this recommendation. National nutrition education curriculum standards could have a variety of benefits, including the following: Improving the consistency and effectiveness of nutrition education in schools; Preparing and training teachers and other education staff to help them provide effective nutrition education; Assisting colleges and universities in the development of courses in nutrition as part of teacher certification and in updating methods courses on how to integrate nutrition education in subject-matter areas in the classroom and in materials; and Establishing a framework for future collaborative efforts and partnerships to improve nutrition education. Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards is a summary of the workshop's presentations and discussions prepared from the workshop transcript and slides. This summary presents recommendations made by individual speakers.
Download or read book Selected Community Nutrition Programs and Activities in the United States of America with Relevance to Australia written by Renate Harding and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 2436 National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nutrition Education and Training of Health Professionals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventive Nutrition written by Adrianne Bendich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrition has been recognized as a major determinant of health for centuries. Tradi tionally, nutritional sciences have primarily targeted the prevention of diseases resulting from clinical deficiencies of essential nutrients, such as scurvy and rickets. Contempo rary nutritional research has focused on the prevention of major diseases of Western civilization, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as promoting mater nal and child health and healthy aging. Heart disease and cancer, which were rare in most developing countries several decades ago, are increasing dramatically in these countries, in parallel with economic development and dietary transitions, decreases in infectious diseases, and increasing sedentary lifestyle and obesity. Substantial evidence indicates major chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers are largely preventable by relatively simple diet and lifestyle modifications. Despite the great potential of nutrition in preventing diseases and improving health, nutrition is not routinely emphasized in the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. This has resulted in inadequate nutritional knowledge and lack of skills in providing dietary counseling among many health care professionals. Further more, in the past decade, the public's access to nutritional information has been increas ing rapidly, particularly through the Internet. There are now hundreds of websites providing a wide range of nutritional information and selling numerous dietary products. Because of the explosion in nutritional information, the public's demand for nutritional advice has been increasing rapidly and will continue to rise.
Download or read book Diet and Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.
Download or read book Nutrition Program News for Exchange of Information on Nutrition Programs and Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Providing Healthy and Safe Foods As We Age written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a longer life mean a healthier life? The number of adults over 65 in the United States is growing, but many may not be aware that they are at greater risk from foodborne diseases and their nutritional needs change as they age. The IOM's Food Forum held a workshop October 29-30, 2009, to discuss food safety and nutrition concerns for older adults.
Download or read book The Effect of Training Community Workers with Participatory Methods on Their Ability to Involve People in a Process of Learning about Nutrition written by Maria Teresa Cerqueira and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
