What Is America Eating? Proceedings of a Symposium (1986) / Chapter Skim
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Nutrition Education
Nutrition Education
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Consumers do not base food choices largely on their consideration of the right mix of nutrients for optimal health and disease prevention. However, many consumers want and will use health-related nutritional advice that takes all the reasons they eat into account and phrases dietary recommendations in ordinary language at the level of food choice (Dwyer, 1984~.
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Obtaining timely nutritional information is important, especially for high-nsk groups, when, for example, changes in social welfare and public assistance programs, especially those involving categorical grants, are being contemplated. Since federal grants of the categorical type are for very specific purposes, such as nutrition, arguments in favor of continuing or discontinuing them should be based in part on the evidence of their effects on nutritional status.
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With present data, however, it is impossible to make predictions about their ultimate effect on nutritional status. When assessing effects of government program changes on groups at high nutritional nsk, it is important to evaluate more carefully persons who have several characteristics that impart nutritional risk, such as poverty~r near poverW~ombined with poor health, poor education, or other disabilities.
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In addition, the academic community, especially community nutrition researchers, must improve its documentation of the natural history of changes in dietary status and nutritional health of various groups at high nutritional risk as programs change. In spite of major changes in the economy and in categorical programs in recent years (Nathan and Doolittle, 1983; Palmer and Sawhill, 1984)
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The empirical results of such testing should then be examined and the systems changed accordingly so that nutritional advice fits the dietary actualities of Americans in the 1980s and takes into account public understanding of the scientific issues involved (Funkhauser, 19721. Nutrition education materials should be developed for nutritionally vulnerable, high-risk groups (e.g., refugees and illegal migrants from Latin America' Haiti, and Southeast Asia)
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In addition, with regard to experimental design, dietary changes in the larger population may alter the number of subjects needed to detect true differences between those on usual diets and those on experimental diets, if such differences do exist. Recommendations One recommendation regarding nutritionally vulnerable people is that descriptive research is needed on the diets and diet-related beliefs of persons who are at risk for a disease or who have been prescribed diets for chronic degenerative diseases requiring therapeutic dietary alterations.
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1981. Effects on renal function of a low nitrogen diet supplemented with essential amino acids and ketoanalogues and of hemodialysis and free protein supply in patients with chronic renal failure.
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