Nutrition for Family Living Monthly Newsletter - 2000 Archive

December, 2000

• HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding
  • http://www.4woman.gov/
  • http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding
• Major Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Rates
  • http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/106/5/e67
• FDA Announces Decision on Health Claims for Dietary Supplements
  • http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/
• Functional Foods: What does it mean and what are they?

November, 2000

• American Heart Association Dietary Guidelines
  • http://www.americanheart.org/
• Obesity Continues to Climb Among American Adults in the Past Year
  • http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa
  • http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/obesity-health.html
  • http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n13/ffull/jlt1004-4.html
• Lower Direct Medical Costs Associated with Physical Activity
  • http://www.physsportsmed.com/
• Using the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • http://www.usda.gov/cnp
• Questions and Answers about Fish and Fish Oils
  • http://www.colostate.edu/depts/CoopExt/PUBS/COLUMNNN/nn980128.html
  • http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/advisories
  • http://seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/cook_eat.html
  • http://www.fda.gov/
• Options for Improving Nutrition for Older Americans
  • http://www.gao.gov
• Quest Card Conversion Almost Complete
  • http://www.nutrisci.wisc.edu/nutrinet/newsletters/Oct00News.pd
• Hunger Summit 2000 in Portage County

October, 2000

• Family Meals: Engaging and Educating Kids in the Kitchen
• Family Meals: Family Dinner and Diet Quality anomg Older children and Adolescents
• Family Meals: Your Kids Are What You Eat
• Family Meals: Implications for Extension Educators
• Good Breakfast for Good Learning
  • http://www.uwex.edu/ces/wnep/p6/nfspdfs/Brkfast.pd
• Wisconsin Food Stamp Program Evaluation Summary

September, 2000

• How America's Eating Has Changed Since the Beginning of the 20th Century
  • http://www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/foodrevw/jan2000/
• Major Increases in Diabetes Among Adults Occurred Between 1990 and 1998
  • http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes
  • http://www.uwex.edu/ces/media
• Preconceptional Health: A Perinatal Health Challenge for the 21st Century
• Health Status Reports for All US Counties Now on the Web
• http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/
• National 5-A-Day Week September 10-16
  • http://www.5aday.gov/

August, 2000

• Increasing Prevalence of Overweight Among Wisconsin Adults
• Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Risk of Heart Disease in Women
• Nutritional Guidance is Needed During Dietary Transition in Early Childhood
• School Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating
  • http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/das
• Dietary Guidelines Booklets and Fact Sheets
• Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals
  • http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Pubs/Cookbook/thriftym.pd
• Eat Smart, Play Hard
  • http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2000/07/0241.htm

July, 2000

• New Pediatric Growth Charts Released
  • http://www.cdc.gov/growthchart
• Dietary Quality of Older Americans
  • http://www.eatright.org/adap0500.html
  • http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Insights/insight14.PDF

June, 2000

• Update on Maternal Nutrition
• Do Women Who Follow Dietary Recommendations Actually Live Longer?
  • http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n16/pdf/joc91695.pd
• Upcoming Videoconference on Diabetes
• Recipes and Tips for Healthy Thrifty Meals
• Final Version of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 5 th edition, Released
  • http://www.usda.gov/cnpp
  • http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/
  • March 2000 issue of Nutrition for Family Living
• Welcome to Betsy and Julie

May, 2000

• New Interactive Healthy Eating Index Online
  • http://www.usda.gov/cnpp
• Fat, Fiber, and Colon Cancer
  • http://www.uwex.edu/ces/wnep/p3/mmpdfs/9902.pdf
  • http://rex.nci.nih.gov/massmedia/pressreleases/polyp_prev_diet.html
  • http://rex.nci.nih.gov/massmedia/pressreleases/polyp_prev_qa.html

April, 2000

• Upcoming Obesity Videoconference 4/26/00
  • http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v282n14/pdf/joc90559.pdf
  • http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~fycsweb/linda7.htm#anchor11
• The Fat vs. Carbohydrate Debate
• Added Sweeteners Intake of Americans
• USDA Proposes Revised Rule on Products Labeled "Organic"
  • http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop

March, 2000

• Reminder: How Nutrition Affects Cognition Videoconference, 4/27/00
• Alternative Nutrition in Pedicatrics Videoconference, 6/7/00
• Proposed Wording for the 2000 Edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • http://www.ars.usda.gov/dgac
• Healthy People 2010 Objectives
  • http://cf.uwex.edu/trsprod/login.cfm

February, 2000

• Reported Adoption of Dietary Fat and Fiber Recommendations among Consumers
• Credibility of Nutrition-related Research as Reported in Newspapers
  • http://www.eatright.org/pr/2000/010300a.html
• Accuracy of Nutrition Information Reported in Popular Magazines
  • http://www.eatright.org/pr/2000/010300a.html
  • http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/nutacc95.html
• How Nutrition Affects Congnition videoconference, 4/27/00
  • http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/

January, 2000

• Whole Grains and Heart Disease
• Breastfeeding and Cognitive Development
• One More Reason to Support Breastfeeding: Economics
  • http://www.econ.ag.gov/epubs/pdf/foodrevw/may99/contents.htm#eight
• Food Stamp Participants' Food Se urity and Nutrient Availability
  • http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/FSP/FILES/nutrient.pdf