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Jane Mitchell Rees, PhD, RD, CD
Departments of Health Services and Pediatrics 
Maternal Child Health and Adolescent Medicine 
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

(Unless otherwise stated, all links accessed on March 28, 2012)

Access to Food
American Dietetic Association (ADA)   
Child and adolescent nutrition assistance programs - Position of ADA

Eating Behaviors
MedicineNet.com Health Fact 
Junk Food vs Healthy Nutrition For Children --- an interview.

Eating Disorders
American Dietetic Association (ADA)
Nutrition intervention in the treatment of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders - Position of ADA

Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine (SAHM)   
Position Paper on Eating Disorders (pdf format).

Children and Adolescents With Eating Disorders: The State of the Art. (pdf format) Pediatrics 2003; 111: e98-e108.  Published in Jan 2003 ePediatrics, the authors (including Jane M Rees) were members of the Eating Disorders Special Interest Group of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.  

Educational Modules
EuTEACH 
A curriculum for professionals who educate others about adolescent health.  Modules include Nutrition, Exercise and Obesity, and Eating Disorders.  Sponsored by WHO and the International Association for Adolescent Health.

Family Meals
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 
Correlations Between Family Meals and Psychosocial Well-being Among Adolescents.  (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158:792-796).

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA)   The Importance of Family Dinners IV , September 2007,  The Importance of Family Dinners III , September 2006; The Importance of Family Dinners II , September 2005.  Three reports on frequency of family dinners, family dinners and teen substance abuse, family dinners and family relationships. Includes survey results.

General Nutrition (Recommendations & Guidlines)
DHSS/USDA 
Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly every 5 years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA).Food & Nutrition Board. 
See categories for male and female ages 9 through 18 years (Table D1-1) to find the amounts recommended for adolescents. 

Maternal and Child Health Library 
Knowledge Path:  Child and Adolescent Nutrition
The goal of this site is to "...serve the maternal and child (MCH) community with accurate, reliable, and timely information and resources."  A project of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, at Georgetown University.

Bright Futures 
Bright Futures in Practice:  Nutrition 
Bright Futures in Practice:  Physical Activity

Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM)   
Position Statement on Nutritional Health of Adolescents 

Health Care Reform and Adolescents.  A Position Statement.

USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center  
How food label reference values (DV) compare to the Nutritional Recommendations for Children and Adolescents

University of Minnesota 
Guidelines for Adolescent Nutrition Services, Eds. Stang J, & Story M. 2005.  A comprehensive overview of nutrition issues of teens.

Information for Parents
Washington State Department of Health
Adolescent Nutrition: Information for adults who care about teens --- a downloadable pamphlet. (pdf format).
Eating Disorders:  Information for adults who care about teens --- a downloadable pamphlet. (pdf format).

Overweight
United States Department of Agriculture
Obesity and Functional Foods;  USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service -- Obesity & Healthy Weight.  Presentation by Catherine Champagne PhD, RD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center. 

 Maternal and Child Health Library   
Knowledge Path:  Overweight and Obesity
The goal of this site is to "...serve the maternal and child (MCH) community with accurate, reliable, and timely information and resources."  A project of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, at Georgetown University.

Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM)
Position paper on preventing and treating adolescent obesity.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Effects of a Weight Management Program on Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters in Overweight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Savoye M, et al..  JAMA. 2007;297:2697-2704.   

Metabolic effects of repeated weight loss and regain in adolescent wrestlers. S. N. Steen, R. A. Oppliger and K. D. Brownell. JAMA. 1988 Jul 1;260(1):47-50. Abstract: http://jama.ama-assn.org:80/cgi/content/abstract/260/1/47  

National Academies Press 
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2005). Koplan JP, et al.

Journal of Adolescent Health
Metabolic Syndrome and the Mismeasure of Risk (Editorial) .  Goodman E. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2008; Vol. 42 , Issue 6 , Pages 538 - 540

Public Health
American Public Health Association 
Annual meeting programs and abstracts since 2000 

Research Review
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) 
Annals of the NYAS Vol. 817, May 1997 - Adolescent Nutritional Disorders - Prevention and Treatment. Table of contents, some abstracts, and how to order this book.

 

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