School gardens have beneficial effects on children's dietary behaviors but information on its implementation is scarce. The current study aimed to gain insight in implementation practices of school gardens and in perceptions of key members and children towards a school garden. We conducted twelve interviews involving 14 key members and five focus groups with 38 children from fifth to sixth grad...

The nutrient intakes of fifty-four hyperactive children during a baseline period and while following the hyperkinesis diet were calculated. During both periods, mean dietary intakes compared favorably with the Recommended Dietary Allowances. A comparison of three-day food records showed that, relative to baseline values, nutrient intakes did not change significantly while the children followed ...

PURPOSE Even mild iodine deficiency may negatively affect cognitive performance, especially at a young age. Our aim was to investigate iodine status in very young children and to assess the importance of iodized salt in processed foods of which the use has decreased during the last years in Germany. METHODS Twenty-four hours urinary iodine excretion (UIE) as a marker of iodine intake was meas...

The results of the food consumption study suggested that the calorie and protein intakes of ID and 2 malnourished preschool children in the study area were much lower than the RDA and thus these children should benefit from a supplementary feeding project. However, after 42 days of supplementation with Nu tri-Pak, the project's objective of increasing by 5%, the percent standard weight for age ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the energy and nutrient intakes of healthy infants from low-income families and to compare intakes with current recommendations. DESIGN We interviewed mother-infant pairs longitudinally when the infants were 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months old. Food intake data were obtained by 24-hour dietary recalls. Selected nutrient intakes were calculated and compared with the Recommend...

From 1990–1997, use of nutritional supplements in the United States increased 130% (Eisenberg et al., 1993, 1998). In 1997, $5.1 billion was spent on supplements in the United States (Eisenberg et al., 1998). Nutritional supplementation has become an important component of many diets because people believe they do not get adequate nutrition from food alone (Murray, 1996). Ideally, nutritional n...

OBJECTIVES The current Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is based on short-term nitrogen balance studies in young adults and may underestimate the amount needed to optimally preserve physical function in older adults. We examined the association between protein intake and the onset of mobility limitation over 6 years of follow-up in older adults in the Health ABC study. DESIGN P...

Fifty-one years ago, at the height of World War II, the National Research Council (NRC) published a six-page document entitled Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). Since then, the nine successive editions of the RDAs have become nutrition's gold standard—the most authoritative guide to the nutrient needs of people in the United States, used for an extraordinary variety of purposes. The NRC's ...