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R T Frankle

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PubMed1985

Obesity a family matter: creating new behavior.

The family as culture transmitter plays a role in the development of health maintenance practices. A review of the epidemiological variables associated with obesity suggests that familial factors--genetic and environmental--have a significant effect on the onset, causes, and prognosis of treatment. Chances of success in losing weight may depend upon the extent of family functioning or upon finding a support system within and/or outside the family. The weight control program described is family oriented. Life-style changes learned in the group meetings reach home and affect family members. Four-pronged in its approach (nutrition, behavior change, exercise, and a positive support system), the program uses "skill builders," which are special situational modules that deal with specific family situations. A skill builder offers a step-by-step guided approach to identifying and changing problem behavior in the area of diet and exercise, e.g., eating in social situations, new food shopping patterns, and the role of significant others in the weight loss process.

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PubMed1976

Nutrition education in the medical school curriculum: a proposal for action: a curriculum design.

Nutrition has been traditionally taught in medical schools with emphasis on clinical management of disease states with modified diets. However, the science of nutrition can no longer be considered only in terms of the diagnosis and treatment of nutritional deficiency diseases. Prevention of disease-care rather than cure-must be emphasized. Using the nutrition concepts that evolved from the 1972 Williamsburg Conference encompassing the science and the sociology of nutrition, the author offers a proposal for action-a sequential nutrition curriculum design for years, I, II, and III of undergraduate medical education based on the experiences of the Nutrition Division, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine-City University of New York.

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PubMed1976

Nutrition education for medical students. II. Who shall teach it? Within what framework? How?

There exists inadequate recognition, inadequate support, and inadequate attention to the subject of nutrion in medical schools. While progress has occurred in some schools, the teaching of nutrition has not generally been integrated into the curriculum of the medical school. This paper raises the question: Within what framework and how? The author attempts to highlight the role of the nutrition educator in the medical center setting as the health professional to assume leadership. There are signs of renewed interest. Efforts are being made to expand nutritional knowledge in the medical school curriculum. The design of nutrition in the curriculum must reflect the needs of society and of the learner. There must be relevance. The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.

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