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The nutritionists themselves, however, turned out to be not very well informed about a number of consumer issues -- food irradiation and aspartame, for examplethat the public often wanted and perhaps needed to be educated about. In other words, these university-trained nutritionists felt that the food supply had reached such a level of complexity, and contained so many potentially unhealthy foods, that it was not at all easy for ordinary people to make the right food choices from it (or for practicing nutritionists to keep up with issues relevant to its safety and nutritiousness)
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They were suffering, he said, from a severe case of personalism, clinging to their faith that more knowledge alone can change things. We nutrition educators have seen ourselves as a relatively powerless voice shouting into the wind of information that sells products, papers, magazines, and/or reputations -- information that may or may not have consequences for eaters' nutritional status.
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Regular stories appear in the press, for example, reporting that prestigious researchers have decided fat is or is not implicated in breast cancer, or that less than one alcoholic beverage a week may increase a woman's risk of breast cancer although seven times as much may reduce a man's risk of heart disease. Readers must take with a grain of something other than salt the news that the dolphins dying on New Jersey shores have nothing to do with the safety of the fish caught in the waters off those same shores, or that the safety of the poultry supply has nothing to do with the pictures of someone's poultry floating in a soup of its own feces on the television program "60 Minutes." Put all this together and you have a recipe for a public that is truly dazed by food-related information that may or may not have health consequences.
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As for the education of nutrition educators, a document entitled "The Academic Preparation of the Nutrition Education Specialist" has been generated by a committee made up of representatives from the Society for Nutrition Education, the American Home Economics Association, the American Dietetic Association, and the Faculties of Graduate Programs in Public Health Nutrition. The document describes the competencies of those who consider themselves specialists in nutrition education (it is available from the Society for Nutrition Education, Oakland, California)
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Second, nutrition educators must be trained to be politically as well as scientifically sophisticated. Recently, Barth Eide and I defined a nutrition educator as "one who helps people of whatever social, economic, political circumstance to meet their need for nutritious food, n with the implication that at least part of the training of nutrition educators must teach them to seek out the real causes of poverty and hunger around the world and to act effectively against causes rather than ineffectually against consequences.
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Campbell pointed out in a recent paper that the unwarranted explicitness of dietary recommendations has helped create marketplace confusion (Campbell and O'Connor, 1988~. The facts are not good enough to permit us to quibble honestly over 5 percentage points of fat calories or 5 grams of fiber.
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The Loading Edge in Nutrition Education. Proceedings of the National Conference on Nutrition Education Research.
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