I NUTRITION NOTES 1

Visiting Professorship in Nutrition

National Dairy Council announces its annual Visiting Professorship in Nutrition program. Schools of medicine are invited to submit com- petitive applications for participation in this pro- gram in calendar year 1984.

The purpose of this program is to enhance the present level of nutrition knowledge of physi- cians, medical students and other health care professionals by sponsoring visits by individ- uals with expertise in nutrition-related medical problems at medical schools throughout the country. The program is designed to create a greater awareness of the importance of nutri- tion to clinical medicine and other closely re- lated specialties, and also to foster greater in- terinstitutional and interdepartmental commu- nication of nutrition concepts and their application to modern health care.

A list of "available" visiting professors from which the medical school can select has been developed. An honorarium of $500 and travel expenses up to $1000 are supported by the National Dairy Council. Applications for the cal- endar year 1984 program are due on or before October 1 , 1983. For more information, con- tact: Nutrition Research Division, National Dairy Council, 6300 N. River Road, Rosemont, Illinois 60018. (31 2) 696-1 020.

Assistant Editor Nutrition Reviews

Ms. Lynn Hoppe, Assistant Editor of Nutrition Reviews, has accepted a position as associate food editor for Meredith Publications, Des Moines. Nutrition Reviews therefore will have an opening for the position of assistant editor. Interested applicants with a background in nu- trition and journalism should apply to: Robert E. Olson, M.D., Editor, Nutrition

Reviews, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, M 240 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

Recent Books

Obesity, edited by M.R.C. Greenwood, Pub- lished (1 983) by Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1560 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Pp. 21 4. Price $27.00. This volume contains a discussion of obesity in two parts: health and treatment and new direc- tions in research. It provides information on current treatments and the health-relat- ed risks of obesity, along with several oth- er chapters on the etiology of the individual obesities. Newer areas of research in- clude food choices, pharmacologic agents to control weight, cellular metabolism in the obese and genetic contribution to obesity.

Handbook of Nutrition, Health and Aging, by Donald M. Watkin. Published (1983) by Noyes Publications, Mill Road, Park Ridge, NJ. Pp. 326. Price $32.00. This vol- ume discusses both the complex bio- chemical research in nutrition as related to aging and the application of present knowledge to individuals and population groups. A careful description of the triad of nutrition, health and aging is given and is discussed in detail in a section on specific nutrients in relation to aging. The conclud- ing section deals with government activi- ties and federally sponsored service programs for the aged.

Measuring Change in Nutritional Status, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1983. Avail- able from WHO Publications Centre USA, 49 Sheridan Avenue, Albany, NY 12210. Pp. 101. Price: Sw. fr. 14.-. This volume describes methods of measuring changes in nutritional status which are operationally feasible in situations of limited resources. The text describes the methods of taking anthropometric measurements, principles of data collection and sampling, the analy- sis and interpretation of the data and the

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