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Winter 1999

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• If My Child is Overweight, What Should I Do About It? 1998. Using a question-and-answer format, this booklet discusses the overweight child from a parent's perspective. Parents are advised to check with a doctor if they think their child is overweight, and to structure, rather than restrict, the child's food intake if the child is overweight. Suggestions are offered for ensuring increased activity for the child. Available from: University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Communication Services-Publications, 6701 San Pablo Ave., 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94608-1239. (800) 994-8849. FAX (510) 643-5470. Website: danrcs.ucdavis.edu.
  
  
• The Pressure to Eat: Why We're Getting Fatter. In the July/August 1998 Nutrition Action Healthletter, B. Liebman interviewed Kelly Brownell, a professor of psychology, epidemiology, and public health at Yale University, and a member of the Healthletter's scientific Advisory Board, on the rising rate of obesity in America. Dr. Brownell says that too much responsibility for obesity is placed on the individual, and not enough on the medical profession and the culture of food. He discusses why it is so easy to become obese in America, and presents some solutions. Available from: Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1501 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036. (202) 332-9110. Website: www.cspinet.org.
  
  
• FDA Guide to Dietary Supplements. In an article in the September/October 1998 FDA Consumer, P. Kurtzweil explains the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) responsibility for "dietary supplements" as a result of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). Dietary supplements include herbs and other plant-derived substances, amino acids, and concentrates, extracts, and metabolites of these substances. Kurtzweil says that one of the most important provisions of the DSHEA is FDA's oversight of claims made by dietary supplement manufacturers for their products. Available from: FDA, Office of Consumer Affairs, 5600 Fishers Lane, HFE-50, Rockville, MD 20857.
  
  
• Faith in the Future. R. Davis, in the October 1998 issue of Cooking Light, describes a joint project of Cooking Light magazine and a school in Birmingham, Alabama, intended to teach middle-school students the basics of good nutrition and weight control. Physical activity was also stressed. If students learn good nutrition and fitness habits now, Davis says, they will stay with them through adulthood. Available from: Cooking Light, P.O. Box 1748, Birmingham, AL 35201. (800) 336-0125.
  
  
• Toward More Healthful Dietary Patterns: A Matter of Policy. M. Nestle, writing in Public Health Reports, September/October 1998, says that the Federal Government has the potential to affect the food choices of Americans in a variety of ways. She cites public education, setting standards for milk and meat to reward producers of lower-fat products, school meal reimbursement increases for lower-fat menus, food labeling changes to require fat content to be displayed prominently, and support of research into ways to reduce the fat content of various foods. Available from: Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave., SW, Washington DC 20201.

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