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SNEB
 Mobilizing Nutrition Communications to Improve Americans' Consumption Patterns
July 16 | 3 p.m. EDT | Register
Nutrition educators essentially sell healthy behaviors — by increasing motivation and providing people with the knowledge and skills to make decisions. This session will guide nutrition researchers, health practitioners and educators through methods, both qualitative and quantitative, used by market researchers to understand the various influences of eating behavior.
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Healthy Aging Division Business Meeting
4 to 5 p.m. ET Thursday, July 9
SNEB Communications Division Meeting (Rescheduled)
1 to 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, July 14
SNEB Weight Realities Division Meeting
Noon to 1 p.m. ET Thursday, July 16
SNEB Social Marketing Division Business Meeting
1 to 2 p.m. ET Friday, July 17
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The fall Journal Club series will look at Survey Design and Validation in Nutrition Education and Behavior Research. Presenters include Leslie Cunningham-Sabo, Ph.D., RD; Patricia Markham Risica, DrPH, RD; Brett A. Wyker, MS; Anna Jones, Ph.D.; Julie A. Wright, Ph.D.; Erikka Loftfield MPH; Rosa K. Hand, MS, RDN, LD; and Jayna M. Dave, Ph.D.
These one-hour webinars, conducted at noon EDT on Mondays, will provide valuable learning opportunities for anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of creating and validating surveys. Participants also earn CPE by attending. If you would like to be registered for the entire fall webinar series, email rdaeger@sneb.org.
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The JAMA Network Journals via EurekAlert!
New estimates suggest that more than two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine. Overweight and obesity are associated with a variety of chronic health conditions, which could potentially be avoided by preventing weight gain and obesity.
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Through a partnership with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, McDonald's Corporation announced a global commitment to increase customers' access to fruit and vegetables and help families and children make informed choices in keeping with balanced lifestyles at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.
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Department of Agriculture
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants are spending more of their benefits to make purchases at roadside farm stands, farmers markets and directly from local farmers than ever before. SNAP redemptions at those outlets in FY14 totaled $18.8 million, a nearly six-fold increase since 2008.
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University of Basel via EuerkAlert!
Fructose not only results in a lower level of satiety, it also stimulates the reward system in the brain to a lesser degree than glucose. This may cause excessive consumption accompanied by effects that are a risk to health, report researchers from the University of Basel in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Various diseases have been attributed to industrial fructose in sugary drinks and ready meals.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Food marketing research shows that child-directed marketing cues have pronounced effects on food preferences and consumption, but are most often placed on products with low nutritional quality. Effects of child-directed marketing strategies for healthy food products remain to be studied in more detail. This study investigated the effects of packaging cues on explicit preferences and effort provision for healthy food items in elementary school children.
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Tufts University via EuerkAlert!
In a Viewpoint published in the Journal of the Medical Association, researchers from call on the federal government to drop restrictions on total fat consumption in the forthcoming 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. For the first time since 1980, the DGAC did not propose restricting total fat consumption in its technical report, released in February.
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Nutrition Insight
Athletes should drink only when they are thirsty, according to new guidelines from an international expert panel. The advice follows the news that at least 14 deaths of marathon runners, football players and athletes have been attributed to a condition called exercise-associated hyponatremia, which results from drinking too much water or sports drinks.
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Circulation
This study concluded that sugar-sweetened beverages are a single, modifiable component of diet, that can impact preventable death/disability in adults in high, middle and low-income countries, indicating an urgent need for strong global prevention programs.
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Pediatrics
This clinical report describes the rationale for pediatricians to be an integral part of the obesity-prevention effort.
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