COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-159
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Scientific Committee ◽  
Nutritional Requirements ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

THE Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics was established as a Scientific Committee by action of the Executive Board on April 1, 1954. It was created through due recognition of the importance of nutrition in the welfare of infants, children and adolescents. It had become evident that there should be an authoritative body, particularly concerned with the science and practice of nutrition in the periods of rapid growth which occupy the attention of pediatricians. In this manner it was hoped that special consideration of factors which affect the nutrition of infants, children and adolescents could be emphasized. The Committee should include persons capable of compiling and appraising the pertinent facts and who also would be sensitive to the needs of practitioners and to the position of purveyors of products intended for the nutrition of infants, children and adolescents. This Committee of the Academy shall offer guidance in selecting means of achieving optimal nutrition in those periods of rapid growth. Consultation and cooperation with other existing authoritative bodies are considered desirable. The Executive Board of the Academy on September 29, 1955, defined the scope and functions of the Committee on Nutrition to include: 1. Compilation of the essential facts which are the scientific basis for practical nutrition of infants, children and adolescents. 2. Publication of the findings of the Committee in a form suitable to convey the information to physicians, such as brief reports and commentaries in the official journal and publications of the Academy. This Committee shall concern itself with standards for nutritional requirements, optimal practices and the interpretation of current knowledge of nutrition as these affect infants, children and adolescents.

PROCEEDINGS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
William W. Belford
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
National Council ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
White House ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

AFTER SOME 30 years a member of the Academy and 6 years on the Executive Board, I come to this occasion very much aware of the great honor given me. Those before me have given us their concepts and philosophy of pediatrics and of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and what it has done. I am very humble in my comments about things as they appear to me. In the lives of all of us there is always something to be done—unfinished business. There is unfinished business for the American Academy of Pediatrics too. The last 10 years seem to have increased the number of factors and items of this unfinished business. There is so much to be done for the welfare of children! It is encouraging, though sometimes confusing, that so many groups are interested in the welfare of children besides pediatricians. It is good that the Fellows of the Academy takes part in the activities of these other organizations, for many of these lack pediatric guidance. The Academy's official liaison representatives to these groups are appreciated and we give them our thanks for their unselfish and outstanding efforts. It is evident that this phase of the work in child care will increase, and pediatricians must have an increasing role in the work of these organizations which are interested in various aspects of child health and welfare. The National Council of Organizations for Children and Youth now numbers 596 organizations as members. The recent White House Conference on Children and Youth was a huge affair! It was quite evident that there was a vast amount of knowledge unusued though known to one group but not realized or suspected to be available by others.

Prevention of Smoking

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1143-1144
Author(s):  
Henry P. Staub
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
American Cancer Society ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Cancer Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Younger Generation

In the Newsletter of January 1, 1968, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that the executive board strongly endorsed time American Cancer Society's anti-smoking resolution. Personally, I cannot agree with the approach of the resolution to the public health hazard of smoking. If the American Academy of Pediatrics (or for that matter, the American Cancer Society) wanted to back effective measures, an entirely different type of resolution would have been adopted, one that would have put the emphasis On reaciling the younger generation.

Why Accept Stories About China?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Author(s):  
Robert O. Fisch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Academy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The People ◽  
Scientific Report

I am always amazed by the fascination of the American public with the "stories" from behind the Bamboo Curtain. The data of Dr. Wray in his article1 are biased, i.e., "I was told," etc. Any other article based upon similarly described data, especially from the United States, would not even be considered for publication by an editor, especially not by the editors of the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Wray's last sentence, "... Chairman Mao's command: ‘Serve the People!’" sounds more like a Marxist manifesto than the conclusion of a scientific report.

Prophylactic Vitamin D Dosage after Infancy

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-308
Author(s):  
HARRY BAKWIN
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Late Winter ◽  
First Year ◽  
Bellevue Hospital ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Prophylactic Dose ◽  
Nutrition Committee

In the report of the Nutrition Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics on the "Prophylactic Requirement and the Toxicity of Vitamin D" (Pediatrics, 31:512) the same prophylactic dose of vitamin D is recommended for children and adolescents as for infants. This seems to me unrealistic. Before the introduction of widespread vitamin D prophylaxis, all the babies over 3 or 4 months on the infant's ward at Bellevue Hospital had rickets during the late winter and spring. The only variation was in degree. Rickets was never seen after the first year or two except for an occasional case of "renal rickets" and "coeliac rickets."

In Reply:Office-Based Medication Dispensing

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-400
Author(s):  
DANIEL W. SHEA
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Organizational Policy ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Ambulatory Medicine ◽  
Practice Activity

The statement was developed by the Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine (of which I was then chairman) with the approval and support of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Executive Board. It was designed to respond to the needs of the membership for direction and guidance in this area of practice activity. Establishing organizational policy on an issue such as this for which there are no hard data requires a consensus building process where expert opinion is solicited, competing views are evaluated, and a thoughtful position is fashioned. Our committee, at all times, sought substance, fairness, and balance in formulating the content of this statement.

Protective Eyewear for Young Athletes

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Eye Injuries ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Eye Protection ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Protective Eyewear ◽  
Hospital Emergency Departments

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommend mandatory protective eyewear for all functionally one-eyed individuals and for athletes who have had eye surgery or trauma and whose ophthalmologists recommend eye protection. Protective eyewear is also strongly recommended for all other athletes. BACKGROUND More than 41 000 sports-related and recreational eye injuries were treated in hospital emergency departments in 1993.1 Seventy-one percent of the injuries occurred in individuals younger than 25 years; 41% occurred in individuals younger than 15 years; and 6% occurred in children younger than 5 years. Children and adolescents are particularly susceptible to injuries because of their fearless manner of play and their athletic immaturity.2-4 Ten sports or sports groupings are highlighted in this statement based on their popularity and the high incidence of eye injuries (see Table 1).1 Baseball and basketball are associated with the most eye injuries in athletes 5 to 24 years old.5 Participation rates and information on the severity of the injuries are unavailable, however; therefore, the relative risk of significant injuries cannot be determined for various sports. The high frequency of sports-related eye injuries in young athletes indicates the need for an awareness among athletes and their parents of the risks of participation and of the availability of a variety of approved sports eye protectors. When properly fitted, appropriate eye protectors have been found to reduce the risk of significant eye injury by at least 90%.4,6,7 EVALUATION It would be ideal if all children and adolescents wore appropriate eye protection for all sports and recreational activities.

Proposed Guidelines on Genetic Engineering

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 1159-1159
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Genetic Trait ◽  
Inborn Errors ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The University

The American Academy of Pediatrics has become aware of a proposal to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that "NIH [National Institutes of Health] prohibit any experimentation involving the transfer of a genetic trait from one mammalian species into the germ cell of another, unrelated mammalian species." An advisory committee rejected this proposal on Oct 29, 1984. For the record and in any event of further attempts to impose such a prohibition, the Academy, on recommendation of its Council on Research, has the following statement: Without specific study of the referenced experiments by Dr Ralph Brinster of the University of Pennsylvania, the American Academy of Pediatrics believes that such a blanket prohibition would be scientifically dangerous and detrimental to research efforts into understanding human disease, including cancer, and potentially to the development of new therapies. There is no true scientific basis for the proposed prohibition. The fact is that a large number of molecular structures, including complex ones, are held in common among the mammalian species. In reality, the species are much more similar than they are different. The species borders that the proposer talks about are a continuum and a blend rather than a sharp demarcation (as is evidenced in cell culture by the ability to fuse cells from many species). The prohibition would militate against certain possibilities for research and therapy related to inborn errors of metabolism. A gene for the production of an enzyme in one species often makes an enzyme that would produce the same kind of product found in the human.

Dyslipidemia Screening of 9- to 11-Year-Olds at Well-Child Visits by Utah Pediatricians

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (14) ◽  
pp. 1286-1290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Stipelman ◽  
Paul C. Young ◽  
Joni Hemond ◽  
Laura L. Brown ◽  
Nicole L. Mihalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Family History ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Lipid Screening

In 2011, an expert National Institutes of Health panel published the “Integrated Guidelines for CV Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents,” which recommended screening all children aged 9 to 11 years for dyslipidemia. It is unknown if this guideline is being followed. We surveyed members of the Utah chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to determine whether they performed universal lipid screening at well-child visits (WCV) on their patients at 9,10, or 11 years and how comfortable they were with evaluating and/or managing children with dyslipidemia. Of the 118 respondents who practiced primary care, only 18 (15%) screened all children at WCV; 86 (73%) tested “some,” most commonly children who were obese or had a positive family history. 18% were unfamiliar with the guidelines; 28% were familiar with the guidelines but felt they were “inappropriate;” 98 (84%) of the respondents said they were “very or somewhat comfortable” evaluating children with dyslipidemia.

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