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...growing number of children under age two are, like Noelle, victims of misguided parental notions of a healthy diet, warns Pugliese. Restrictive diets, he notes, now account for about one-fourth of the cases of failure to thrive seen at the hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates...
...cuts in subsidies for the poor. The military, hospitals, nursing homes and prisons rely on the RDA tables in preparing menus. They are also the basis for the labeling of packaged foods. In addition, food stamps and school lunch programs are tied to the RDAs. Says Lynn Parker, senior nutritionist at the Food Research and Action Center in Washington: "The recommendations could have potentially devastating effects on federal food assistance programs." But the academy panel carefully dissociates itself from all such possible eventualities. "This is a scientific document," explains Pennsylvania State Nutritionist Helen Guthrie, a member of the panel...
Unlike Mary Poppins, who was armed only with a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, the new nannies are valued for their specialized knowledge. At North American, for example, students learn toilet-training procedures from a pediatric nurse, diet planning for acne-prone adolescents from a nutritionist and how to deal with family turmoil from a counselor. Says Nanny Plan Student Marcie Mansell, 24, a former cosmetics-company beauty adviser: "We are professionals trained to know things baby-sitters...
...Pritikin, 69, health and fitness guru whose regimen of low- cholesterol diet and exercise attracted thousands of grateful disciples who claimed both weight loss and amelioration of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes symptoms; by his own hand while suffering from advanced leukemia; in Albany. Pritikin became a self-taught nutritionist after he was diagnosed as having heart disease at age 40. He promoted his diet plan, consisting mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, in $3,675 two-week programs at his longevity centers and through several books...
Although the information reviewed by the panel has been previously reported, its message is a dramatic one, says Dr. George Blackburn, a leading nutritionist at Harvard's Deaconess hospital. "Now we can stop fiddle- faddling around and see this for what it is," he says. "Obesity is a disease." Also significant, says Blackburn, is the panel's concern with lesser degrees of overweight. In the past, he says, warnings have focused mainly on the 11 million Americans who are severely obese...