Keeping Up-to-date with the Milk Industry How do research scientists, governmental officials, physicians, nutritionists and other key health professionals and spokesmen keep up-to-date on current values of milk and other dairy food? “It depends,” says Dr. M.F. Brink, president of the National Dairy Council. “Certain scien tists can be very close to such informatiotl - particularly as it relates to their speciality. This is especially true of scientists whose research is sponsored by NDC through its nutrition research grants-in-aid program. “But for the overwhelming majority of researchers and other health leaders in America, the wide variety of information and research trends relating to the nutritional virtues of dairy A Rugged Construction Solid Concrete Walls j C Steel Reinforced MB INTERNATIONAL STAR SILO ASSOCIATION, Inc. RD "1 MYERSTOWN, PA 17067 DIAL (717)-566-5708 Write for FREE BOOKLET In Fact... A.H HOFFMAN SEEDS INC. products must come to them from a special source, an in terested source such as the National Dairy Council.” One of the ways NDC keeps health leaders up to date, says Dr. Brink, is the publication of a bi-monthly research reivew, Dairy Council Digest. The Digest is about to begin its 44th year. This highly respected publication provides concise discussions of nutritional matters that can af fect the consumption of milk and its products. The pubication, of curse, does not talk sales. But it discusses in depth those areas of public concern that also relate to dairy products in the human diet. This performs a service to health leaders in that they are provided with information PENNSYLVANIA'S NUMBER ONE FARM SEED SPECIALIST LANDISVILLE (Lancaster County), Pa. 1T538 HOFFMAN Has 14 of Them! gathered together in a form not available elsewhere. The Digest, in turn, renders the dairy indsutry a service in that it gives health leaders positive and accurate information that helps to counter hearsay, faddism, and over-interpretation of trends in nutrition research, including areas of conjecture in which dairy foods are sometimes un justifiably criticized. What will Dairy Council Digest cover in 1973 9 Six main topics will be featured. These include food faddism, diet and atherosclerosis, nutrition and dental health, the nutritional role of trace elements (minute amounts of minerals such as copper, zinc, and manganese) in human health, the 1973 revised recommended dietary allowances, and the effects of malnutrition on learning and behavior. “All of these topics, these areas of research interest, are meaningful in terms of the role of milk and its products in America’s diet,” says Dr. Brink. “How well the facts are known, how well they are understood, will have a far-reaching effect on a most important process that is now developing the formation of a national policy on nutrition in the United States. 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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 6,1973 that will influence milk con sumption for a generation, if not longer.” Dairy Council Digest reaches a total audience of at least 720,000 each year. The Digest is mailed by NDC and affiliated Dairy Councils to physicians, dentists, nurses, dietitians, nutritionists, extension workers, and teachers. Here are brief summaries of the main topics to be discussed in six 1973 issues of the Dairy Council Digest: January-February Food Faddism Food faddism is receiving increasing attention from nutritionists and other health leaders due to the health, economic and social problems which can result from bizarre eating habits. The Digest will present an overview of food faddism, the nature and definition of types of food fad dism, and the inherent dangers March-April Diet in Early Life in Relation to Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) This issue will present the role of diet in relation to other en vironmental factors (such as living habits, heredity, blood pressure) which may contribute to the onset of atherosclerosis, the Digest will discuss diet in early life and review the American Academy of leed| Pediatrics’ position on this subject. May-Junc The Impact of Oral Health Articles in the scientific literature have presented new material on this subject. The National Nutrition Survey has released findings from several states, including results of dental examinations which indicated the detrimental effect of poor nutrition on oral health. These will be discussed, as will recent investigations dealing with the role of phosphorus in tooth decay prevention. The latter suggests that milk, which contains phosphorprotein casein, may have significant preventive properties. July-August The Role of Trace Elements in Human Nutrition Interest in the role of trace elements (minute quantities of minerals) in nutrition has in creased. This digest will update knowledge and present an overview of certain aspects of trace element nutrition such as: the biological function (s) of micronutrients such as zinc, copper, nickel, and other metals, their concentration in milk, estimated human requirements, and circumstances predisposing to deficiencies in the hunian body. September-October Recommended Dietary Allowances, Revised 1973 This Digest will contain the revised basic RDA’s schedule to be published in the fall for the various nutrients according to age-sex groupings. A comparison of the 1973 RDA’s with the 1968 RDA’s as related to the dairy industry will be presented November-December Malnutrition, Learning and Behavior This issue will discuss the ef fect of malnutrition (acute and borderline) on biochemical changes in the central nervous sytem, on behavior and per formance, and the correlation between behavior and observed biochemical changes. Interest in this area is exemplified by the Protein Advisory Group of the United Nations System Statement on “The Relationship of Pre and Postnatal Malnutrition in Children to Mental Development, Learning and Behavior.” Hostess Spy Rose Greenhow, a Wash ington hostess and famous spy during the Civil War, is said to have sent word to Confederate Gen. Beaure gard that the Yankees were coming, causing Union de feat at Bull Run. 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