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SNEB
The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) invites you to submit abstracts for presentation at the 2016 Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, July 30-Aug. 2. SNEB is interested in abstracts about research, programs and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Abstracts related to this year's conference theme: Next Practices in Nutrition Education are also encouraged. All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplemental issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior for the Annual Conference.
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The webinars will host nutrition education and behavior experts who will share their experiences with successfully designing and implementing nutrition education interventions. These educational workshops will provide valuable learning opportunities for participants wishing to expand their knowledge base and learn the right tools needed for building a successful behavioral nutrition intervention. Participants can also receive CPEs by attending these educational webinars.
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.
Remember that SNEB members attend webinars free as a benefit of membership and can access recorded sessions free at any time. Watch for more details on the specific survey topics to be covered. If you would like to be registered for the entire fall webinar series, email rdaeger@sneb.org.
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SNEB Journal Club 9: Exploratory factor analysis; internal consistency; test-retest
Noon EST Monday, Nov. 30 | Register now!
Presented by Jayna Dave, Ph.D., CNRC
Parent-reported Social Support for Child's Fruit and Vegetable Intake: Validity of Measures
Learning objectives:
At the end of the webinar, participants will learn:
- The principles of exploratory factor analysis.
- Key terms such as Eigenvalues and factor loadings.
- How to determine whether data are suitable for carrying out an exploratory factor analysis.
- How to interpret SPSS factor analysis output.
- The principles of reliability analysis and how to carry it out in SPSS.
Understanding Protein in a Healthy Diet
Noon EST Thursday, Dec. 3 | Register now!
Speaker: Donald K. Layman, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Layman will provide insight about the past, present and future of protein in the American diet as dietary guidelines evolve from the Food Guide Pyramid to MyPlate. The presentation will examine the new research about optimum dietary protein for muscle health and performance and how new concepts about the optimum amount and quality of protein at each meal are reshaping meal patterns. Sponsored by the St. Louis District Dairy Council.
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Jeanette Andrade, Ph.D., RDN, LDN, Eastern Illinois University, Urbana, Illinois, Higher Education Division
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The NEWI Division seeks a chair elect for SNEB's 2016 ballot. This is a two year commitment — serving in 2016 as the chair-elect of the Division and in 2017 as the Division chair. Contact Division Chair Wendy Dahl (wdahl@ufl.edu) with questions and/or your interest in the position.
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Scholarships and Mini Grant application available online.
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The Excellence in Extension Award is a national award given annually to Cooperative Extension professional in recognition of their visionary leadership, excellence in programming and positive impact on their community. One Extension educator from each of the five Cooperative Extension regions (northeast, north central, south, west and 1890 universities), was recognized at the APLU Annual Meeting. The 2015 Regional Excellence in Extension recipients included:
- 1890 Institutions Region: Virginie Zoumenou, Associate Professor/State Extension Nutrition Specialist, 1890 FCS Program /EFNEP Director, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- North Central Region: Julie Garden-Robinson, Professor and Food and Nutrition Specialist, North Dakota State University Extension Service
TIME
Weighing yourself frequently is linked to some negative health effects in teens, especially for girls, according to new research published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Researchers studied 2,000 adolescent boys and girls in the Midwest over 10 years. They asked the participants how often they weighed themselves and other questions to gauge factors such as their perceptions of body image and self-esteem.
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Influence of Interpretation Aids on Attentional Capture, Visual Processing and Understanding of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels
Example of front-of-package nutrition labels considered in the study: (A) color without text, (B) color with text, (C) monochromatic without text and (D) monochromatic with text. **Guideline daily amounts for sugars were not clearly established when labels were designed.
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EurekAlert!
Time and again we've been told: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This refrain has proven particularly truthful for people who are trying to lose weight. To gain insight into what breakfast eating habits would be beneficial to those seeking to lose weight, a Cornell Food & Brand Lab research team sought to find out what healthy weight people eat for breakfast.
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From Alice Henneman
Save time — check out these University of Nebraska Extension resources for Thanksgiving questions, articles, handouts, blogs and more. Includes links to several USDA materials, many of them in Spanish. Check out the Thanksgiving Pinterest Board at the bottom of the page to get ideas and repins for your own board to promote nutrition and food safety over the holidays.
FDA
Because of the changing landscape of food ingredients and production, and in direct response to consumers who have requested that the FDA explore the use of the term "natural," the agency is asking the public to provide information and comments on the use of this term in the labeling of human food products. To electronically submit comments to the docket, visit http://www.regulations.gov and type FDA-2014-N-1207 in the search box.
American Council on Exercise
The American Council on Exercise has just released its Walk This Way toolkit, featuring resources that can be used by individuals, community organizations, faith-based institutions, schools, employers, etc. to encourage and support individuals to walk more and create walkable environments.
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Cornell University
The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University is accepting applications for the 2016 Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics. We invite faculty members, research scholars and advanced graduate students (must be eligible to work in the United States) with demonstrated background and experience in historical studies to apply for this post-graduate opportunity. The deadline for receipt of all application materials is March 4, 2016.
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EuerkAlert!
Why a dietary treatment works for some but not others seems to depend on interactions between the gut microbiota and the diet. A new study, published in Cell Metabolism, shows that people with better control of blood sugar after eating barley kernel bread also have a different balance of microbes in the gut.
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EuerkAlert!
Men who are overweight are just as likely as overweight women to experience interpersonal discrimination when applying for a job or shopping at retail stores, according to new research. "We were interested in looking at biases toward men who are heavy in employment settings," said Enrica Ruggs, assistant professor of psychology at UNCC. "A lot of the research that has looked at weight stigmatization or discrimination toward heavy people has tended to focus on women."
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Medscape
The U.S. obesity rate for adults has climbed to 37.7 percent, up from 32.2 percent 10 years ago, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And after nearly a decade of women and men having similar rates, women now have higher rates (38.3 percent vs. 34.3 percent).
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Department of Justice
As part of a nationwide sweep, the Department of Justice and its federal partners have pursued civil and criminal cases against more than 100 makers and marketers of dietary supplements.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Young American adults own smartphones at a higher rate than any other age group. Researchers from Duke University wanted to see if capitalizing on that smartphone usage with a low-cost weight-loss app might help the 35 percent of young adults in the U.S. who are overweight or obese. If you're rooting for smartphones to solve all our health problems, you're not going to like what the researchers found.
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FDA
The FDA recognizes that many consumers are interested in whether food ingredients are derived from genetically engineered plants. Recently, we issued final guidance for manufacturers who wish to voluntarily label their foods as containing or not containing such ingredients.
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