PURPOSE To quantify the number of required hours of nutrition education at U.S. medical schools and the types of courses in which the instruction was offered, and to compare these results with results from previous surveys. METHOD The authors distributed to all 127 accredited U.S. medical schools (that were matriculating students at the time of this study) a two-page online survey devised by ...

Introduction Brazil has been called a nation in nutrition transitional because of recent increases in the prevalence of obesity and related chronic diseases. With overweight conditions already prevalent among middle-income populations, there exists a need to identify factors that influence nutrition behavior within this group. Objective To address this subject, a research study was implemented ...

Nutrition problems have been identified in In­ donesia since the Dutch colonial time and activities to overcome the problem started with the establish­ ment of the Institute for People's Diet (Instituut Yoor Yolks Yoeding) in 1934 by the Dutch govern­ ment. Its main tasks were nutrition research, nutri­ tion and dietary survey, nutrition education and providing advice on food and nutrition prob...

In 2006, the Healthcare Commission of Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition did a survey in order to know the actual situation of endocrinology and clinical nutrition healthcare in Public Sanitary Systems in Spain. The survey has been more extensive than the last and it has taken up number and geographical distribution of specialists in Spain in addition to data about clinical assistan...

The National Nutrition Survey in Japan (J-NNS), an annual nationwide survey on nutrition and diet of the Japanese people, is reviewed. J-NNS was started in the Tokyo Metropolitan area in 1945 following the end of World War II. The survey area was gradually expanded and became nationwide in 1948. The current survey obtains data from more than 12,000 persons of approximately 5,000 randomly select...

Service. The Committee wishes to express its warm thanks to Dr. Milton Z. Nichaman, Director, Nutrition Program, Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) , Atlanta, Georgia, and his staff for their generous cooperation and assistance in making the survey data available to the Committee. Much of the data upon which this statement is based appears in Ten-State Nutrition Survey. 19681970, DHEW, Publicat...

Service. The Committee wishes to express its warm thanks to Dr. Milton Z. Nichaman, Director, Nutrition Program, Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) , Atlanta, Georgia, and his staff for their generous cooperation and assistance in making the survey data available to the Committee. Much of the data upon which this statement is based appears in Ten-State Nutrition Survey. 19681970, DHEW, Publicat...