An automated telephone nutrition support system for Spanish-speaking patients with diabetes.

In the United States, Spanish-speaking patients with diabetes often receive inadequate dietary counseling. Providing language and culture-concordant dietary counseling on an ongoing basis is critical to diabetes self-care. To determine if automated telephone nutrition support (ATNS) counseling could help patients improve glycemic control by duplicating a successful pilot in Mexico in a Spanish-speaking population in Oakland, California.

Dietary intake of children at high risk for cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular disease and obesity begin in childhood, and dietary interventions to prevent them should be initiated then. We hypothesized that children who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease based on family history would have diets that were different than those of children from low-risk families. Two hundred ninety-seven children were screened for family history of early cardiovascular disease; had height, weight, and finger-stick total cholesterol measured; and filled out food frequency questionnaires.

Home and eating environments are associated with saturated fat intake in children in rural West Virginia.

Objective: To describe sociodemographic, environmental, and knowledge factors in relation to self-reported, energy-adjusted saturated fat consumption among children in rural West Virginia.

Participants: Three hundred twenty-five 5th graders who participated in the Coronary Artery Risk Detection in Appalachian Communities Project conducted in 3 rural counties in West Virginia in 1998-1999.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey based on self-reported information collected using a food frequency questionnaire, a nutrition knowledge questionnaire, and a family composition questionnaire.