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1. Food Choices &
Human Health
Think
Positive
—
Focusing
on
Foods to Add, Rather Than Avoid, Helps Your Patients Succeed,
By Densie Webb, PhD, RD, Today’s Dietitian- February 2011 Issue,
Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 24.
HOUSE CALL: Vitamins and supplements — to take or not to take, By Claudia Humphrey, STLtoday.com (a St. Louis, Missouri website), June 15, 2011.
Listening
Is Powerful Medicine, by Alicia
Conill, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition
Sunday, February 1, 2009.
The Anatomy of Hope: How People
Prevail in the Face of Illness, by Jerome Groopman,
M.D., 2004. Although this isn't a link to read when answering
Study Questions, some of you might like this book, widely
available at local libraries, including LCC's library. I
loved it.
Some
highlights from "Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy
Diet?": an article by Adam Drewnowski, PhD (a
professor at the University of Washington), and
Petra Eichelsdoerfer ND, MS, RPh (a naturopathic
physician affiliated with Bastyr University in Seattle); Nutrition
Today; November/December 2009 - Volume 44 - Issue 6 - pp
246-249.
My Turn: The Chinese Know: We Are How We Eat, Shirliey Fung. Newsweek, October 2, 2000, p10.
Comfort Foods. A sermon
delivered by Rev. Gregory Flint, First Congregational Church,
Eugene, Oregon. October 7, 2001.
Researchers
Find
Bias
in
Nutrition
Studies (This one is audio.) by Allison Aubrey, NPR's Morning Edition,
January 9, 2007 · A new study, co-authored by Harvard
researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in the
Public Interest (CSPI), suggests there's a systematic bias in
nutrition studies funded by food companies.
The
Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with the
scientific method?, by Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker, December 13, 2010.
It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have
been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable.
Food News Blues. Barbara Kantrowitz and others, Newsweek; 3/13/2006. This article focuses on health research reported in the media.
Whom Can You Believe? By: Stampfer, Meir J.; Skerrett, Patrick J.. Newsweek, 1/16/2006. This article explains the reasons for so many conflicting stories about diet and nutrition and the difficulties in studying human diet and nutrition.
Secrecy
May
Be
Unnecessary
for
Placebo Effect: IBS Patients Cite Benefits After Knowingly
Taking Dummy Pill, By Katrina Woznicki. WebMD Health News,
December 22, 2010.
The Dietary
Guidelines for 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture and
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The
News
In Food: From MyPlate To E. Coli: Interview with Marion
Nestle, Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies
and Public Health at New York University. She also writes
the blog Food Politics,
Here & Now. June 7, 2011.
Your
Plate
Is
Bigger
Than
Your Stomach, By DAVID LEONHARDT, The New York Times,
May 2, 2007.
Sense and Sensuality. By:
Kalins, Dorothy. Newsweek, 1/16/2006. This article looks
at the sensuality of certain nutritious foods. The author
explains how to get up close and personal with food to better
enjoy it.
Nutrient
Rich Foods Index- easily accessible and reliable
information to help you eat the nutrient-rich way. Dr. Adam
Drewnowski, the author of an article in the Week 1 list, is on
its Scientific Advisory Committee.
Hebni Nutrition
Consultants, Inc. (HNC) is a community based non-profit
organization committed to improving culturally diverse
populations' health by providing comprehensive nutrition
information.
Vegetarian
diet:
How
to
get
the best nutrition (includes a vegetarian food pyramid),
By Mayo Clinic staff.
Canada's
Food Guide, December, 2009.
Secrets of slim French revealed. BBC News- UK Edition, August 22 , 2003. Just
7% of French adults are obese - three times lower than in the
United States. Now, researchers, on both sides of the Atlantic
including Dr. Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania,
believe they have cracked the riddle. The answer, they say, is
simply smaller portions.
French
Women Do Too Get Fat: What the best seller neglects to
mention, By Kate Taylor, Slate
(a daily magazine on the Web), Feb. 23, 2005.
Field to Plate workshops and seminars are "live, interactive, intra-food experiences that can change the way that people think, eat, experience and talk about food
Phytochemicals (antioxidants, etc.) (also called hy phytonutrients)The
Pleasures of Eating (why eating is an agricultural act), Wendell
Berry in 1989.
Making
Starch in a Plant, Beth Naylor, MS, RD, April, 2012.
Dietary
Guidelines
for
Sustainability, Joan Dye Gussow, Department of Nutrition
Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York, New
York; and Katherine L. Clancy, Department of Human Nutrition,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Journal of Nutrition
Education and Behavior, February 1986 Volume 18
(1) p. 1-5. (I'll include here just the first page and a half.)
The Botany of
Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael
Pollan. 2001. This tells the story of how four domesticated
species- the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato- have
each evolved a survival strategy based on satisfying one of
humankind's most basic desires. Here is amazon.com's description.
The LCC library DOES have this book. (QK46.5.H85 LCC
Library's website for
availability.) This book could also be the basis for a project
in another class.
In The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006), Michael Pollan
writes about how our food is grown -- what it is, in fact, that
we are eating. The book is really three in one: The first
section discusses industrial farming; the second, organic food,
both as big business and on a relatively small farm; and the
third, what it is like to hunt and gather food for oneself.
The LCC library DOES have this book. (Check LCC
Library's website for
availability.) You can read the introduction and
first chapter at his website: http://michaelpollan.com
The New Oxford Book
of Food Plants. J.G. Vaughan & C.A. Geissler. 1998.
The LCC library has this in their reference section (SB175).
Stung: Where have all the bees gone? by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, August 6, 2007.
Photosynthesis by Isaac Asimov.
1968. (This is on reserve at the LCC Library).
Through seed conservation and community interaction Native Seeds/SEARCH works to protect crop biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity.
Carbohydrates: Going With the Whole Grain. Harvard School of Public Health. January 13, 2004.
Traditional
Foods Program, Centers for Disease Control. Using
Traditional Foods and Sustainable Ecological Approaches for
Health Promotion and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention in American
Indian and Alaska Native Communities is a 5-year grant that
champions 17 tribal programs striving to restore local,
traditional foods, and related physical activity, while
strengthening social support. From South Carolina to Alaska,
projects reflect the wisdom of indigenous cultures as distinct
as the land each partner calls home. One of the 17 tribal
partners is the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.
Diabetes is surging worldwide, By Marc Santora, June 18, 2006, International Herald Tribune.
Children
With
Diabetes: The online community for
kids, families and adults with diabetes. This site was
recommended by Gary Mort, chemistry faculty here, who has a son
with Type I diabetes.
Gestational Diabetes. Pregnant women who have never had diabetes before but who have high blood sugar (glucose) levels during pregnancy are said to have gestational diabetes.
Gastrointestinal
Disorders/Gluten-Free Diets
Celiac Disease Foundation.
Celiac Disease is gastrointestinal problem with the protein
gluten. Management of the disease focuses on avoiding
carbohydrate (and gluten)-rich foods like all forms of wheat
(including durum, semolina, spelt, kamut, einkorn, and faro),
and related grains, rye, barley, and triticale. So I have
included it in this section on carbohydrate.
U.S.
households with kids are buying fewer calories, a new report
says. By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2014.
Salt
subtly trimmed from many foods amid campaign, By
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press, February 11, 2013.
Businesses
Pledge 'Healthier Choices' For Customers, by Allison
Aubrey, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, December 2,
2011.
License to Snack.
Look for their "Supermarket Tour". I'm interested to
hear what you think of this website. It's a Frito-Lay
site, but they don't promote their products.
Calories
and taste meet halfway: The latest food trend is lower fat
instead of no fat; BY MAE ANDERSON; The Associated
Press, published in The
Register-Guard, September 28, 2012. Food
companies are developing mid-calorie snack foods.
Snacks
for a Fat Planet. The long-term strategy of the CEO of
PepsiCo (which owns Frito-Lay) is to make PepsiCo’s “nutrition
business” a much larger part of the company’s portfolio than
it is today; by John Seabrook, The New Yorker; May 16, 2011. Here's the
abstract of the article.
First
the banks, then the food companies, Jennifer Wilkins, TimesUnion.com, November
7, 2011. Occupy Wall Street has brought to the
foreground how power is concentrated into the hands of very
few people (the 1 percent) who are vested in the status quo.
But concentration and consolidation of power that has so
exercised OWS protesters characterize other sectors of our
economy like, the food system.
Worlds of
Healthy Flavors Online, Culinary Institute of America.
Food
Choices
and Diet Costs: an Economic Analysis, Adam Drewnowski
and Nicole Darmon, Journal
of Nutrition. April 1, 2005 vol. 135 no. 4,
pages 900-904. This section of the article has a good
summary of the issues "Obesity and the law".
Kelly Brownell In Eugene, March 2011. Dr. Kelly Brownell, is Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling — An Abuse of Trust by the Food Industry?; Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., and Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H.; New England Journal of Medicine; June 23, 2011; 364:2373-2375.
Dari
Mart
welcomes
mobile
produce stand to parking lot, By Jack Moran. The Register-Guard, July
11, 2011.
‘LESS’
IS
MORE:
Fast-food
industry
isn’t exactly heeding government’s advice, By
Sharon Bernstein, Los
Angeles Times, February 5, 2011.
Washington,
D.C.
Super
Bowl
Ad
Shows Soda Politics in Action, The Atlantic, February 8, 2011.
Experts
say
no
advantage
to
reduced-sugar cereals, The Associated Press, USA Today, March 21,
2005.
Beyond
Popcorn:
Theaters
Try
Seat-Side
Food Service, by Laura Ziegler, National Public Radio's
All Things Considered,
May 25, 20l1.
How
to
Make
Oatmeal
.
. . Wrong (McDonald’s latest offering), By MARK BITTMAN,
a opinion blog on The New
York Times website, February 22, 2011.
Great
Harvest Encourages Franchise Originality, by Wendy
Kaufman, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, October 23, 2007.
CSPI's Guide to Food Additives (Center for Science in the Public Interest) At this
website, scrolling down shows you an alphabetical listing of
additives with an evaluation of their safety. These
additives are often used in the refined foods discussed
elsewhere.
World Hunger - Sudan.
United Nations World Food Programme. July 26, 2004.
What it's like to live on $1 a day, By Xanthe Scharff, Christian Science Monitor, July 06, 2005.
Nicaragua Photo Testimony Project: Living with the Consequences of US Policy: Nicaragua Revisited. This is the website of Pam Fitzpatrick of Eugene and Paul Dix. Following many visits to Central America in the 1980s, Pam and Paul returned to Nicaragua in October of 2002, nearly thirteen years after the February 1990 elections that removed the Sandinistas from power. During their six-month stay, they documented -- through taped interviews or "testimonies," photographs, and more -- the long term effects of the contra war and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary Nicaraguans,many of whom they had visited in the 1980s.. They also captured inspiring stories of people who are struggling with strength and determination for a better life for themselves, their children and their communities.
State of the World's Children, UNICEF. 1989, 2002, 2003 and 2004 editions. At the LCC Library, HQ792.2 (The 1989 edition is on reserve at the LCC Library.)
World Neighbors: World Neighbors works with the rural poor in 15 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to strengthen the ability of individuals and communities to solve their own problems of hunger, poverty and disease. http://www.wn.org
The Science Behind
Our Generosity: How psychology affects what we give charities.
By Peter Singer, NEWSWEEK, February 28, 2009.
Vitamins [pills] Found to Curb Exercise Benefits, NICHOLAS WADE, New York Times, May 11, 2009.
Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets, The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS); a branch of the NIH (National Institutes of Health).ARE
YOU DEFICIENT? The article discusses the benefits of
vitamin D for the human body. Bonnie
Liebman, Nutrition Action Health Letter;
November 2006, Vol. 33 Issue 9, p1-7, 6p.
The
power of D: Sunshine vitamin’s potential health benefits
stir up, split scientists; By Nathan Seppa; ScienceNews; July 16th,
2011; Vol.180 #2 (p. 22)
Are We Overselling The Sunshine Vitamin?, Richard Knox, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, March 29, 2010.
Sunshine
is
good
for
you
(again). After years of telling us not to spend
too long outdoors on sunny days for fear of cancer, doctors
and researchers now admit that following their advice can lead
to vitamin D deficiency and some are
now recommending that people allow themselves a small amount
of sun exposure at certain hours of the day. Jo
Revill, The Observer
(UK), May 28 2006.
Teens,
Tans
and Truth: Doctors fight back against claims that
tanning is healthy. Worries about cancer and 'tanorexics.' By
Pat Wingert, NEWSWEEK, May 19, 2008.
IS VITAMIN E DANGEROUS? Nutrition Action Health Letter; May, 2005, p12
Which has more vitamin A, yams or sweet potatoes?, by Beth Naylor, MS, RD, November, 2006.
Miscellaneous vitamin articles:
In
Latest
Diet
Ranking,
DASH
Races To The Top, by Scott Hensley, SHOTS,
National Public Radio's Health Blog, June 7, 2011.
Dairy foods
and bone health: examination of the evidence, Roland L
Weinsier and Carlos L Krumdieck, Department of Nutrition
Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 72, No. 3, 681-689,
September 2000.
The
milk debate, Janet King, Archives Of Internal Medicine, May 9, 2005; Vol. 165 (9),
pp. 975-6.
Some excerpts from an April 30, 2012
New Yorker article about raw milk.
Calcium
requirement is a sliding scale, BE Christopher Nordin,
Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Institute of Medical and
Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia. American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition, June 2000 vol. 71 no. 6
1381-1383.
Marion Nestle's conclusion regarding dairy foods, from What to Eat. Dr. Nestle is a nutrition professor at New York University.
Osteoporosis: Overview. University of Pittsburg
Medical Center.
OSU
Extension's
handout
of
Calcium-Rich
Foods
Oxalates
and Calcium in Greens, by Beth
Naylor, MS, RD, May, 2011.
OSU's Linus Pauling Institute, Micronutrient Information Center: Potassium
OSU's Linus Pauling Institute, Micronutrient
Information Center: Calcium
Water:
Sodium,
Potassium and Water, 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee.
What's in that bottle? Consumer Reports, January, 2003, Vol. 68 Issue 1. Discusses bottled drinking water.
An Australian study identifies the foods that will fill you up for the least amount of calories. By Phil Lempert, MSNBC "Today" Food Editor, March 2, 2005
Other Week 9 links-
Ancient famine-fighting genes can't explain obesity: Scientists look beyond calorie-hoarding genes to understand widening waistlines, BY LAURA BEIL, ScienceNews, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014.
Good
Day Sunshine: Could Morning Light Help Keep Us Lean?, by
ALLISON AUBREY, NPR's blog Shots, April 03, 2014.
Your
Child's Fat, Mine's Fine: Rose-Colored Glasses And The Obesity
Epidemic, by Shankar Vedantam, National Public Radio's
Morning Edition, March 4, 2013.
No
end to obesity epidemic, 20-year forecast shows, LAURAN
NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer, Published in Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, May 8, 2012.
Study
Shows Why It’s Hard to Keep Weight Off, By GINA KOLATA, The New York Times, October
26, 2011.
Weighing the Diet Books. Nutrition Action Healthletter. Jan./Feb. 2004. This has the best info I've read about the Glycemic Index.
The
Science of Appetite, By JEFFREY KLUGER, TIME Magazine, June 11,
2007.
Eat and Run: Why we’re so fat. by Steven Shapin, The New Yorker, January 16, 2006. The article does more than review the book "The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict," by William Leith. It also looks at historical attitudes about eating and about body size.
Diet experts share advice on how to help kids eat, Nanci Hellmich, USA Today; April 28, 2005. With the increasing concerns about childhood obesity in the USA, many parents are looking for ways to help their children eat right and be active.This article summarizes some advice of Ellyn Satter, whose books are used in the online LCC class, Family Food & Nutrition
Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry by Laura Fraser, May 1998. Amazon.com gives this book 4 1/2 stars out of 5. A reader/reviewer there says "A reformed dieter and an ex-bulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash. Amazon.com's info.
Pediatricians
Warn
Against
Energy
And
Sports Drinks For Kids, by Nancy Shute, National Public
Radio's Morning Edition,
May 30, 2011.
Jolt of Reality.
Wertheim, L. Jon; Llosa, Luis Fernando; Munson, Lester. Sports
Illustrated; 4/7/2003.
Rethink
Your Drink, CDC (Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention)
Editorial: Drink
Fluids to Maintain Hydration and Eat to Obtain Calories
(Abstract); McBurney, Michael I.
PhD, FACN; Nutrition Today; January/February 2009 - Volume 44 - Issue 1 - pp
14-16
Other Week 10 links:
An
'Exercise Snack' Plan, Howard Hartley, I-Min Lee, and
Nancy Ferrari. Newsweek,
3/26/2007. The authors suggest "snacking" on exercise
rather than chips.
Stronger,
Faster, Smarter. Mary Carmichael,
Newsweek;
3/26/2007. Recent research is showing a direct
relationship between exercise and the brain's capacity for
knowledge.
I
Want My Body Back, George Dohrmann, Sports Illustrated, June 8,
2009. What happens to the biggest men on campus when their
playing days end? Three percent of college players reach
NFL; many others face health challenges. Two former
University of Oregon linemen bucked the trend and got serious
about their health with the help of James
Harris, the UO Sports Nutritionist.
A Food Manifesto for the Future, By MARK BITTMAN, New York Times Opinionator (an online commentary), February 1, 2011.
Why
Bother?, By MICHAEL POLLAN, New York Times Magazine, April 20,
2008. This essay by Michael Pollan, the author of the
book Omnivore's Dilemma,
dissects the argument of whether our individual acts of
sustainability make a difference, in other words "why
bother?". He makes a convincing case that our
individual acts do matter.
NCAP. The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to
Pesticides (based in Eugene) works to protect people and the environment by
advancing healthy solutions to pest problems.
Farmworkers and pesticides Palm Beach Post, March 13, 2005.
Store Wars: Whatever your opinion is of genetically engineered food, you may find this a clever and funny animation of good and evil (food) featuring Obi Wan Cannoli and Darth Tater. You'll probably need a fast Internet connection (and a newer model computer) to view this. It may show in a jerky fashion the first time, but then smoothly the second time.
Harvest of Fear A video written, produced and directed by Jon Palfreman ; a Frontline and Nova coproduction with the Palfreman Film Group Inc. in association with the BBC. 2001. Frontline and Nova explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology. At the LCC Library: MV 4893.
Genetically Engineered Foods; Are They Safe? Nutrition Action Healthletter, November 2001
Carrots return to purple roots. BBC News, 16 May, 2002. From as far back at the
10th Century, the crop grew purple in India, the Middle East
and Europe, with its origins traced to Afghanistan. These are
NOT an example of genetically engineered food.
