Nutrition Commons^™

Establishing Healthy Eating Patterns During Infancy And Childhood, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout informs the audience about healthy defaults for the parents of children before and during the pre-school years. Healthy defaults are decisions about food choices selections that need the smallest effort or conscious thought and yield healthy behaviors. The rationale for establishing healthy eating during childhood will be discussed.

Making Healthy Eating An Easy Part Of Your Child’S Life, Rebecca Modesitt

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The handout informs the audience on strategies for how to make healthy eating an easy or default choice for young children. It breaks these strategies down in order to make implementation easier for parents.

Food And Culture; Views And Patterns Of Nutrition In Cuba, Elizabeth Westfeldt

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This fact sheet is designed to educate nutrition professionals about the nutrition and cultural identity of Cuba through food. Traditional Cuban foods, recipes and social patterns around eating. Present historical health beliefs and implications on health prospect. Assess growing health concerns in response to influx of processed foods and post Cuban Revolution rationing. Includes Cuban-American culture and health statistics. This fact sheet is designed to meet an eight-grade literacy level to serve as an educational tool for diverse populations.

Obesity, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout gives general information about the basics of obesity, what it is and some treatment options that may be presented by a clinician or nutrition professional.

Eating Patterns And Behavioral Characteristics Of Young Adults In A Collegiate Recovery Setting, Rachel A. Wattick, Rebecca L. Hagedorn, Melissa D. Olfert

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Secular Trends In Regional Differences In Nutritional Biomarkers And Self-Reported Dietary Intakes Among American Adults: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (Nhanes) 1988–1994 To 2009–2010, Ashima K. Kant, Barry I. Graubard

Publications and Research

Objective: To understand the contribution of regional differentials in dietary exposures to regional gradients in health, we examined 20-year trends in the association of US census region of residence with nutritional biomarkers and dietary intakes of American adults.

Design: Observational. Setting: The biomarker and 24 h dietary recall data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) conducted during 1988–1994 and 1999–2010. The US census region was operationalized as Northeast, Midwest, South and West. Nutritional biomarker outcomes were serum folate, vitamins B6, B12, C, D and E, and carotenoids; dietary outcomes were intakes of nutrients, food groups and …