Word: dietitian
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...certain impossibility. For this reason diet truly is a four-letter word. There is not one sole miracle cure, book or meal plan for proper nutrition and health; there are hundreds of solutions depending on the health goals one is trying to achieve. Consumers should consider consulting a registered dietitian for help in customizing their nutrition therapy. JULIA J. SHEERIN, R.D. Traverse City, Mich...
...best advice may be the same that your mother gave you--and that Sister Mary Aloysius, former dietitian at the Mankato, Minn., convent, has been giving the sisters there for the past 30 years: Eat a balanced diet, including plenty of beans and leafy green vegetables. The advice may be the same, but Mary Aloysius reports that ever since the nuns heard about Snowdon's folate findings, they have been crowding around the salad...
Other simple decisions involve pushing yourself away from the dining table. If you follow the advice given in certain fountain-of-youth books, the authors promise, you will shed pounds as well as years. Elizabeth Somer, a dietitian who has written Age-Proof Your Body: Your Complete Guide to Lifelong Vitality (Morrow), stresses that the most important longevity goal is active-life expectancy, "the maximum number of healthy, disease-free years a person can expect to have." To that end, she gives readers a number of diet and exercise pointers. Readers are advised to replace coffee with green tea once...
...have just discovered that my hearing is compromised, red spots are beginning to decorate my parched skin, and now Cindy Moore, the clinic's dietitian, informs my that my total cholesterol is too high. It has jumped to 222 from the previous year's 195. Cholesterol, the fatty substance crucial to cell functioning, contributes to atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the arteries, which is a major cause of heart disease. My level is not alarmingly high, but vascular disease is rampant among males in my family, resulting in generations of heart attack and stroke...
Proper diet and exercise are the most effective ways of avoiding or alleviating osteoporosis. So women taking the clinic's physical receive more focused advice from registered dietitian Cindy Moore than do men. First, she would want to know if any factors other than hormonal changes have contributed to bone loss. An eating disorder during adolescence, for instance, or chronic inadequate calcium intake diminishes total bone mass. Steroids taken for asthma and immunosuppressants reduce bone density. Even a lack of vitamin D, which is most easily acquired through exposure to half an hour of sunlight a day, diminishes the ability...