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EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS extremely busy and at times difficult to understand, these public service announcements compete favorably with commercial offerings. Everyone - adults as well as children ages 7 to 11, for whom these PSAs are designed - will adore Grandma and Puddles In this fresh alternative to food advertising.
by guest colummsts fill this newsletter which is of interest to those suffering with allergies as well as to those counseling these indiVIduals.
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Iron: You need it! 1980. From Montgomery County Health Department, Nutntion ServIces, 2350 Research Blvd., RockvIlle, MD 20850, 8-page foldout, single copy free. USing a cheerful, gingham motif, this foldout summarizes the need for, sources of, and ways to increase Iron mtake. Special Iron needs of vegetanans are not specifically addressed. Nonetheless, the attractive format, large type, and sensible mformation, includmg reCIpes, make this a useful resource on the tOPIC for laypersons.
Fll.MS
Little Things Mean a Lot and Socks on an Octopus, WNYE-TV, no date. From Nutntion Education and Resource Project, Columbia UniverSity, Box 188, New York, NY 10027, films, 16 mm, 15 and 26 min., traming manuals, 16 and 20 pp., Spanish language manual available for first film, free. These materials are designed to help inner-city New York schools establish effective school foodservice nutntion committees wIth participation from all sectors, especially students. The manuals are generally useful: they examme the processes of starting a committee and operatmg it successfully. The films, however, are tedIOUS and of very poor techmcal quality.
NEW PUBLICATION
Nutrition and Health, bimonthly publication. From Institute of Human NutritIOn, Columbia UmvefSlty, 701 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032, 6-page foldout, $10 per year. Under Myron Wmick's edItorship, this new publication for the lay public will focus on a different topic with each issue. It offers practical information, dietary guidelines, reCipes, and questions and answers. SELF-INSTRUCTION UNITS
Obesity and Weight Management and Living with a Low Sodium Diet, rev. 1980. From Robert J. Brady Co., BOWie, MD 20715, filmstrip, 20 min., take-home booklet, 15 pp., $100 each; also avaIlable in slides, $130; videocassette, $160. These relatively expensive self-study units are for use by patients on special diets. The audiovisual and written materials present general mformation and allow the physician and dietitian to deal with specific needs on an individual basis. Pretests and posttests along WIth reviews spaced throughout each program involve the listener and remforce the main points. Behavioral aspects of changmg eating habits are not emphasized. AUDIOVISUAL
NEW PUBLICATION
Living with Allergies. From Amencan Allergy Association, Box 7273, Menlo Park, CA 94025, bImonthly newsletter, $10 per year. Allergy mformatlon, recipes, and articles 160
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EDUCATION
Nutrition: Vitamins and minerals, Alpers, D. H., 1980. From American Gastroenterological AssocIation, 6900 Grove Rd., Thorofare, NJ 08086, Unit XIII-B, III slides, printed scnpt, 57 pp., $128; also available, Nutrition: Energy and protein, Unit XIII-A, 68 slides, printed script, $90. Improved teaching of gastrointestinal pathophYSIOlogy in medical schools is the purpose of a series of slide and script umts developed by gastroenterologists. These resources are intended to be useful in a variety
of teaching methodologies, e.g., lecture and self-instruction. For most of the 10 vitamins and 5 mmerals mcluded in this unit, there are slides dealing WIth structure and metabolic role, digestive and absorptive aspects, food content, dietary intake and requirement, and clinical assessment of defiCiency. Users should be aware of the followmg with respect to the slides on food and diet: inconsistent use of the terms allowance and reqUIrement; inadequate differentiation among whole, refined enriched, and refined unenriched grain products; and incorrect or missing RDA levels for some nutrients. Mary Wong, R.D., Ph.D. Candidate, Department ofNutritIOnal SCiences, Umversity of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. BOOKLET
What's for Dinner Tomorrow? Corporate views of new food products, Crocetti, G., and F. Stella, 1980. From INFORM, 25 Broad St., New York, NY 10004, 61 pp. $4.95. This report examines development and marketmg practices of major food processors and finds that foods are promoted to meet psychological and SOCIal deSires rather than nutritional needs. COOKBOOK
What Shall I Eat Today? 1981. From SIsters of Chanty Neighbors Program, Wright Hall, 6363 Shendan, Chicago, IL 60660,96 pp., spiralbound, $3. This cookbook WIth simple, often stovetop recipes includes food and nutrition information of interest to healthy semor citizens. However, due to their heavy emphasis on ammal proteins, the recipes are not notably economical, nor are they very well suited to those on sodium-controlled or fat-controlled diets.
Other Titles of Interest The followmg list of received educational matenals does not Imply endorsement by the SOCiety for NutntlOn Edll
Carbohydrates In Human NutntlOn, FAO/ WHO, 1980 From UNIPUB, 345 Park Ave, New York, NY 10010,82 pp , $750 Child Care Food Program: Beuer management Will Yield better nutrltton and fiscal Integnty, Report to the Congress by Ihe comptroller general, 1980. From U.S. General Accountmg Office, Dlstnbuuon SeC1lon, Room 1518, 44) G Sl. NW, Washmgton, DC 20548, 64 pp., smgle copy free.
VOLUME 13
NUMBER4
1981
by guest colummsts fill this newsletter which is of interest to those suffering with allergies as well as to those counseling these indiVIduals.
NUI'RITIO
end lffi\LTII
FOLDER
Iron: You need it! 1980. From Montgomery County Health Department, Nutntion ServIces, 2350 Research Blvd., RockvIlle, MD 20850, 8-page foldout, single copy free. USing a cheerful, gingham motif, this foldout summarizes the need for, sources of, and ways to increase Iron mtake. Special Iron needs of vegetanans are not specifically addressed. Nonetheless, the attractive format, large type, and sensible mformation, includmg reCIpes, make this a useful resource on the tOPIC for laypersons.
Fll.MS
Little Things Mean a Lot and Socks on an Octopus, WNYE-TV, no date. From Nutntion Education and Resource Project, Columbia UniverSity, Box 188, New York, NY 10027, films, 16 mm, 15 and 26 min., traming manuals, 16 and 20 pp., Spanish language manual available for first film, free. These materials are designed to help inner-city New York schools establish effective school foodservice nutntion committees wIth participation from all sectors, especially students. The manuals are generally useful: they examme the processes of starting a committee and operatmg it successfully. The films, however, are tedIOUS and of very poor techmcal quality.
NEW PUBLICATION
Nutrition and Health, bimonthly publication. From Institute of Human NutritIOn, Columbia UmvefSlty, 701 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032, 6-page foldout, $10 per year. Under Myron Wmick's edItorship, this new publication for the lay public will focus on a different topic with each issue. It offers practical information, dietary guidelines, reCipes, and questions and answers. SELF-INSTRUCTION UNITS
Obesity and Weight Management and Living with a Low Sodium Diet, rev. 1980. From Robert J. Brady Co., BOWie, MD 20715, filmstrip, 20 min., take-home booklet, 15 pp., $100 each; also avaIlable in slides, $130; videocassette, $160. These relatively expensive self-study units are for use by patients on special diets. The audiovisual and written materials present general mformation and allow the physician and dietitian to deal with specific needs on an individual basis. Pretests and posttests along WIth reviews spaced throughout each program involve the listener and remforce the main points. Behavioral aspects of changmg eating habits are not emphasized. AUDIOVISUAL
NEW PUBLICATION
Living with Allergies. From Amencan Allergy Association, Box 7273, Menlo Park, CA 94025, bImonthly newsletter, $10 per year. Allergy mformatlon, recipes, and articles 160
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EDUCATION
Nutrition: Vitamins and minerals, Alpers, D. H., 1980. From American Gastroenterological AssocIation, 6900 Grove Rd., Thorofare, NJ 08086, Unit XIII-B, III slides, printed scnpt, 57 pp., $128; also available, Nutrition: Energy and protein, Unit XIII-A, 68 slides, printed script, $90. Improved teaching of gastrointestinal pathophYSIOlogy in medical schools is the purpose of a series of slide and script umts developed by gastroenterologists. These resources are intended to be useful in a variety
of teaching methodologies, e.g., lecture and self-instruction. For most of the 10 vitamins and 5 mmerals mcluded in this unit, there are slides dealing WIth structure and metabolic role, digestive and absorptive aspects, food content, dietary intake and requirement, and clinical assessment of defiCiency. Users should be aware of the followmg with respect to the slides on food and diet: inconsistent use of the terms allowance and reqUIrement; inadequate differentiation among whole, refined enriched, and refined unenriched grain products; and incorrect or missing RDA levels for some nutrients. Mary Wong, R.D., Ph.D. Candidate, Department ofNutritIOnal SCiences, Umversity of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. BOOKLET
What's for Dinner Tomorrow? Corporate views of new food products, Crocetti, G., and F. Stella, 1980. From INFORM, 25 Broad St., New York, NY 10004, 61 pp. $4.95. This report examines development and marketmg practices of major food processors and finds that foods are promoted to meet psychological and SOCIal deSires rather than nutritional needs. COOKBOOK
What Shall I Eat Today? 1981. From SIsters of Chanty Neighbors Program, Wright Hall, 6363 Shendan, Chicago, IL 60660,96 pp., spiralbound, $3. This cookbook WIth simple, often stovetop recipes includes food and nutrition information of interest to healthy semor citizens. However, due to their heavy emphasis on ammal proteins, the recipes are not notably economical, nor are they very well suited to those on sodium-controlled or fat-controlled diets.
Other Titles of Interest The followmg list of received educational matenals does not Imply endorsement by the SOCiety for NutntlOn Edll
Carbohydrates In Human NutntlOn, FAO/ WHO, 1980 From UNIPUB, 345 Park Ave, New York, NY 10010,82 pp , $750 Child Care Food Program: Beuer management Will Yield better nutrltton and fiscal Integnty, Report to the Congress by Ihe comptroller general, 1980. From U.S. General Accountmg Office, Dlstnbuuon SeC1lon, Room 1518, 44) G Sl. NW, Washmgton, DC 20548, 64 pp., smgle copy free.
VOLUME 13
NUMBER4
1981