Regards
David Leonard
FOOD SUPPLY ISSUES
"Are we really fixing up the food supply?", J. Gussow, S. Akabas, J Amer
Dietetic Assoc;93:1300-1305, 1993
PLANT-CENTERED FOOD PYRAMIDS, ETHNIC EATING MODELS
"The Food Guide Pyramid", USDA Home & Garden Bul, 252, 1992,
http://www.social.com/health/cic/food_nutr_other/pyramide.html
"Traditional models of healthy eating: alternatives to "techno-food". M.
Nestle, J. Nutr. Education;26, 241-45, 1994
"Mediterranean diet pyramid: a cultural model for healthy eating", W. Willet
et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1995;61(suppl):1420S-26S
"Mediterranean diets:historical and research overview", M. Nestle, Am J Clin
Nutr 1995;61(suppl):1313S-20S
"Health implications of Mediterranean diets in light of contemporary
knowledge. 1. Plant foods and dairy products", L. Kashi et al., Am J Clin
Nutr 1995;6(suppl):1407S-15S)
"Health implications of Med. diets in light of contemporary knowledge. 2.
Meat, wine, fats, and oils", Kashi et al., Am J Clin Nutr
1995;6(suppl):1416S-27S
"Traditional healthy Asian diet pyramid: preliminary concept",
http://www.cornell.edu/pyramid1.html
"Cornell University scientists help develop Asian Dietary Pyramid",
http://www.news.cornell.edu/general/Dec95/asianpyramid.ssl.txt
"Development of a vegetarian food guide", E. Haddad, Am J Clin Nutr,
1994(suppl):1248S-54S
"Content and bioavailability of trace elements in vegetarian diets", R.
Gibson, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59(suppl):1223S-1232S
"Iron status of vegetarians", W. Craig, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59(suppl)1233S-37S
"Position of the American Dietetic Assoc: Vegetarian Diets (1993)",
http://envirolink.org/arrs/ADA2.HTML
NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: GENERAL
"Dietary Guidelines for Americans". 4th ed. 1995, USDA/USDHHS,
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/dga/dguide95.html
"Food Fight: Walter Willet enters the fray",
http:/biosun1.harvard.edu/hphr/94fall/foodfight.html
"Diet and Health: What Should We Eat?", Walter Willet, Science 1994;264:532-537
"China: from diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence: Policy
implications of the empidemiological transition", T. Colin Campbell et al.,
Food Nutr 1992;27:133
"Diet and chronic degenerative diseases: perspectives from China", T. Colin
Campbell & C. Junshi, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59(suppl):1153S-61S
"China Study shows need for eating plant-based diet", Susan Lang, Cornell
Chronicle, 12/01/94, http://envirolink.org/arrs/essays/veg_diet.html
Cornell/Oxford/China Study home page,
http:newcenturynutrition.com/china/ChinaProject.HTML
"Faculty Research: Mediterranean Diet Lengthens Life", Dec, '95,
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/around/dt.html
"Omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease and in growth and development",
A. Simopoulos, Am J Clin Nutr, 1991;54-438-63 (A comprehensive treatment of
the health role of Omega-3's)
"Epidemiological evidence for the impact of whole grains on health", J.
Slavin, Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr, 1994;34:427-34
"Focus on Fiber: It's Role in Health Still Being Determined and Refined",
Environmental Nutrition (newsletter), 2 parts: June 1996, July 1996
"Diet Quality and Dietary Diversity in France; Implications for the French
Paradox", J. Amer Dietetic Assoc 1996;96:664-69
DIET/OBESITY
"Diet composition related to body fat in a multivariate study of 203 men", J
Am Dietetic Assoc 1996;96:771-76
"Health Implications of Obesity", NIH Consensus Devel. Conference Statement,
Feb 11-13, 1985, http://text.nlm.nih.gov/nih/cdc/www/49txt.html
"Gaining on Fat", W. Gibbs, Scientific American, August 1996
"As weight goes up, so does breast cancer risk", Tufts Univ. Diet &
Nutrition Letter, July '96, p. 1
DIET/HEART DISEASE
"More on Chewing the Fat: The Good Fat and the Good Cholesterol", F. Sacks &
W. Willet, New Eng J. Med, 1991;325:1740-41
"Cretan Mediterranean diet for prevention of cornonary artery disease", S.
Renaud et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1995;62(suppl):1360S-67S
"Essential fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid, may protect against stroke",
AHA journal report, http://ch.nus.sg/MEDNEWS/jun95/hicn8232_4.html
"Mediterranean alpha-linolenic acid-rich diet in secondary prevention of
coronary heart disease", M. Lorgeril, S. Renaud et al., Lancet, 1994;343;1454-59
"Dietary substitution with an alpha-linolenic acid-rich vegetable oil
increases eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) concentations in tissues", E.
Mantzioris et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:1304-09
"Effects of changes in fat, fish, and fiber intakes on death and myocardial
infarction: DART Trial", The Lancet, Sept. 30, 1989
"Deterioration in Carbohydrate Metabolism and Lipoprotein Changes Induced by
Modern, High Fat Diet in Pima Indians and Caucasians", J. Clin Endocrinology
and Metab 1991;73: 156-165
"Will a High-Carbohydrate, Low-Fat Diet Lower Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins
without Producing Hypertriglyceridemia?", D. Ullmann, W. Connor et al.,
Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis 1991;11:1059-67
"New Heart Prescription: B Vitamins" (role of folic acid, B6, B12 in
lowering blood homocysteine levels), Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health
After 50, January '97
"Walter Willet Speaks on Missouri U Campus During Nutrition Emphasis Week",
http://etcs.ext.missouri.edu:70/0/info/hes/hnf/fnr/fnr96-2.asc
"Fat and fiber square off in the fight against heart disease", Environmental
Nutrition (Newsletter), October 1996, p. 7
DIET/HYPERTENSION
"To shake or not to shake:EN takes another look at salt", Environmental
Nutrition (newsletter), Sept., 1996, p. 1
"The Right Way to Treat High Blood Pressure: How to avoid the mistakes that
doctors make", P. <organ, Prevention Magazine, August, 1996
"Can food fight hypertension?" (role of folate in reducing
homocysteine-induced isolated systolic hypertension), Prevention Magazine,
July '96
DIET/CANCER
"Diet fiber, phytoestrogens, and breast cancer", D. Rose, Nutrition
1992;Jan-Feb:47-51
"Antioxidants and hormone-mediated health benefits of whole grains", L.
Thompson, Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 1994;34:473-97
"Phytoestrogens: epidemiology and a possible role in cancer protection". H.
Adlercreutz, Environ Health Perspect, 1995; 103(suppl 7);103-12
"Western diet and Western diseases: some hormonal and biochemical mechanisms
and associations", H. Adlercreutz, Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl 1990;201:3-23
"The Ultra Diet for Healthy Breasts", Prevention Magazine, Sept. '96, p. 65
"Will eating less fat lower breast cancer risk after all?", Tufts Univ, Diet
& Nutrition Letter, April, 1996, p. 1
"Alcohol, Low-Methionine-Low-Folate Diets, and Risk of Colon Cancer in Men",
E. Giovannucci et al., J. Natl Cancer Inst 1995;87:265-273
"Can Bran and Calcium Conquer Colon Cancer?", Environmental Nutrition
(newsletter), Feb. '96, p. 1
"The Prostate Promise: Going for the cancer-preventing diet", Prevention
Magazine, July, 1996
"Look to Soyfoods as Unique Source of Helpful Isoflavones", Environmental
Nutrition (newsletter), Oct. '96, p. 7
"Beta -Carotene Proves Disappointing, Maybe Risky: Fruits and Vegetables
Still Reign", Environmental Nutrition, March 1996, p. 8
DIET/DIABETES/INSULIN RESISTANCE
"High-carbohydrate, high-fiber diets increase peripheral insulin sensitivity
in healthy young and old adults", N. Fukagawa et al., Am J Clin Nutr
1990;52:524-28
"Diet and Physcal Activity as Determinants pf Hyperinsulinemia: The Zutphen
Elderly Study", E. Feskins et al., Am J of Epidemiology 1994;140:350-360
"Dietary Factors Determining Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance: A
20-year follow-up of the Finnish and Dutch cohorts of the Seven Countries
Study", E, Feskens et al., Diabetes Care 1995;18:1104-1111
"Carbohydrates, fat, and insulin action", U. Smith, Am J Clin Nutr
1994;59(suppl):686S-89S
"Habitual dietary intake and insulin sensitivity in lean and obese adults",
J. Lovejoy et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1992;55:1174-9
"The high-monounsaturated fat diet as a practical alternative for NIDDM
(Type II Diabetes)", L. Campbell et al., Diabetes Care 1994;17:177-82
"Nutritional determinants of the insulin resistance syndrome". A. Tremblay,
Internat J of Obesity 1995;19(suppl):S60-S68
"The effect of dietary lipid on insulin action. Clinical studies", B.
Swinburn, Ann NY Acad Sci 1993;683:102-109
"Diabetes: Promising New Therapies for an Age-old Disease", Environmental
Nutrition (newsletter), March 1996
DIET/OSTEOPOROSIS
"Optimal Calcium Intake", NIH Consensus Development Conference Statement,
June 6-8, 1994, http://text.nlm.nih.gov/nih/cdc/www/97txt.html
"Should you be eating more protein or less?", U of Cal at Berkeley Wellness
Letter, June 1996, p. 4
"Getting the Jump on Osteoporosis", Harvard Women's Health Watch, Jan. '96
"Rx for Women's Worst Disease", Holly McCord, R.D., Prevention Magazine,
Nov. '93
"The effect of different n-6/n-3 essential fatty acid ratios on calcium
balance and bone in rats", N. Claassen et al., Prostaglandins Leukot Essent
Fatty Acids 1995;53:13-19
"Vitamin C: Stonger Bones", Prevention Magazine, Nov.'96, p. 35 (based on
abstract from Am Soc of Bone & Mineral Res, Sept. '96
"Dietary calcium: adequacy of a vegetarian diet", C. Weaver et al., Am J
Clin Nutr 1994;59(suppl)1238S-41S
"Deleterious Effects of Salt Intake other than Effects on Blood Pressure",
T. Antonios, Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1995;22(3):180-184