Evaluation of microcomputer nutritional teaching games in 1,876 children at school.

Objective: We evaluated in a prospective study microcomputer nutritional teaching games and their contribution to the children's acquisition of nutritional knowledge and improvement of eating habits.

Material And Methods: One thousand eight hundred seventy-six children aged 7-12 years took part in this study at school. All 16 schools of the same school district were randomized into two groups: games group and control group, both receiving conventional nutritional teaching by their teachers.

Factors associated with glycemic control. A cross-sectional nationwide study in 2,579 French children with type 1 diabetes. The French Pediatric Diabetes Group.

Objective: To determine on a large scale the multiple medical and nonmedical factors that influence glycemic control in the general population of children with diabetes, we performed a nationwide French cross-sectional study.

Research Design And Methods: We enrolled 2,579 patients aged 1-19 years with type 1 diabetes of > 1 year's duration. The study was center based: 270 centers were identified, 206 agreed to participate, and 147 included at least 90% of their patients.

Fatty acid composition of adipocyte membrane phospholipids and stored triglycerides in infants receiving total parenteral nutrition.

Fatty acid (FA) composition of membrane phospholipids (PL) and stored triglycerides (TG) from adipose tissue was studied in eight infants aged 1 to 4 months receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) since birth. During this period, essential fatty acid (EFA) intake consisted exclusively of soybean oil emulsion administered by intravenous route (Intralipid 20%) representing 301 +/- 88 mg/kg/24 hr of linoleic acid and 58 +/- 18 mg/kg/24 hr of alpha-linolenic acid, or 2.3 +/- 0.