ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

After more than 25 years of credentialing dietetic professionals, the Commission on Dietetic Registration is revising the format for logging continuing professional education. As of 2001, the new system will be phased in over 5 years. Each registered dietetic professional will now plan a course of continuing education to meet personal and professional growth needs. This is a very exciting process and one that has many asking questions of “why, how, when, and where.” This article is designed to put a perspective on the new process.

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Safe food is a prerequisite for good nutrition and health. This idea has driven scientific investigations and public policies that, in turn, led to major improvements in health and longevity. Changes in food production and consumption practices, population demographics, and health status and understanding the long-term health consequences of food-borne illnesses will impel future policy reforms.

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The United States has built a triple firewall system to prevent the introduction or emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The firewalls are preventing bovine spongiform encephalopathy’s introduction through bans on imports of animals and animal products, actively looking for bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the US cattle herd, and banning ruminant animal feed supplements found to carry the infectious agent and spread the disease in England.

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is just one of a group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Only recently has it become recognized that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are likely due to proteins known as prions. Although it has been recognized that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies may readily spread within species, the recent observations that bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle may have originated from another transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep, known as scrapie, is cause for concern. Further, bovine spongiform encephalopathy has now been strongly linked with a universally fatal human neurologic disease known as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Currently the only approach to preventing bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and subsequent new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, from ingestion of bovine spongiform encephalopathy-infected material is to avoid consumption of contaminated food. Little can be done to treat food that will destroy prions and leave a palatable product. At this stage we are continuing to learn about transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and their implications on human health. This is an ever-changing situation and has an unpredictable element in terms of the extent of the current outbreaks in England and other parts of Europe.

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Today’s “coffee culture” and the widespread availability of caffeine-containing foods and beverages fuel the ongoing study of caffeine and its subsequent coverage by the media. Although the media has become influential in communicating health and nutrition information to the public, coverage of emerging science, such as the study of caffeine, does not necessarily bring clarity or improved understanding for consumers. This article highlights the current knowledge of caffeine’s effects on health, with emphasis on the most common areas of interest and confusion. To address persistent misperceptions about caffeine, this article also accentuates the need for nutrition professionals to help put the findings of caffeine research into perspective and suggests practical ways to do this.

ISSN:0029-666X    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2002

数据来源: OVID