Behavioral intervention among early adolescent girls improves bone mass after 18 months; however lactose maldigestion is still a barrier for calcium intake

Lactose maldigestion, calcium intake and osteoporosis in African-, Asian-, and Hispanic-Americans.

Dietary calcium is critical for the development of the human skeleton and likely plays an important role in the prevention of osteoporosis. Dairy products provide approximately three-fourths of calcium consumed in the diet and are the most concentrated sources of this essential nutrient. One obstacle that likely interferes with calcium consumption among many ethnic groups is lactose maldigestio...

Nutrition education improves serum retinol concentration among adolescent school girls.

Dietary diversification has been identified as a sustainable intervention method in developing countries where subclinical vitamin A deficiency exists. Nutrition education is central to all methods of nutrition intervention including dietary diversification. The paucity of available data currently limits the effective use of nutrition education in national programs in Sri Lanka. We assessed the...

A Nutrition Education Intervention Trial for Adolescent Girls in Isfahan: Study Design and Protocol

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

Consumption of calcium among African American adolescent girls.

OBJECTIVE To determine the adequacy of calcium intake of children by demographic group in the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) and compare to national statistics. DESIGN FOODS 2000 was used to examine the dietary calcium intake of LMD children and compare it to US children in the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) 1994-1996, 1998. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The sample of 46...

Is 18 months too early for the CHAT?