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Recent Trends and Future Directions
Recent Trends and Future Directions
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Since the great age of discovery of essential dietary factors has been left behind, one could argue that the nutritional sciences have reached a high point in their history, particularly in the United States. The number of individuals in this country who consider themselves to be professionally associated with the field approaches more than 70,000.
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Other individuals associated with various aspects of nutrition research or nutrition and medicine number in the many of thousands, and there have been six major nutrition societies founded in the United States since 1959. The growth of the ADA has been especially striking, with very rapid growth since about 1970 (Figure 1~.
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The number of titles in print began to grow significantly in about 1940, and this growth appears to have accelerated since 1970 (Figure 2~. Journals published outside the United States seem to have increased at a greater rate than those published in the United States.
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has over $50 million of expenditures in human nutrition research, although these funds are expended largely in support of five major human nutrition research centers. These centers represent a major commitment by the federal government to human nutrition research.
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Nutrition scientists study aspects of metabolic regulation by modern techniques of molecular and cell biology. They are concerned with chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and there are new and rather sophisticated applications of nutrition principles in aspects of clinical medicine.
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Government or private research laboratories University departments of nutrition, food science, or food and nutrition Schools of public health University departments of biochemistry, biophysics, or biomedical sciences Other 92 44 27 25 13 9 5 in Table 2 show that in 1986, for the AJCN, most of the papers came from investigators based in medical schools with a much smaller number coming from traditional nutrition departments. Many came from private or governmental research laboratories and from a large number of other academic centers.
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116, 1986 No. of Papers Origin of Papers University departments of nutrition, food science, or food and nutrition Medical schools or hospitals Animal science and veterinary medicine Government or private research laboratories University departments of biochemistry, biophysics, biomedical sciences, and agricultural biochemistry Medical schools and other units (university 19 departments of nutrition, biochemistry, other)
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Of those 40, 11 were submitted jointly, that is, by one principal investigator in a medical school and a second principal investigator associated with another organization on campus, most commonly a department of nutrition based in a college of agriculture or home economics (eight applications) or a school of public health or allied health (three applications)
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In many cases, multiple groups with previous concerns for nutrition were present on the same campus, presumably competing for institutional resources that were allocated to support the subject. Almost every The advisory committee for the Pew National Nutrition Program was somewhat disappointed by the institutional responses, and it is clear that the incentive that would be required to stimulate major organizational changes within institutions is far greater than the funds that were available through the Pew program.
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They are becoming the grass roots nutrition practitioners throughout the United States.
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This is a challenge that those in the field of nutrition must meet if they are to provide the traditional association between high-quality research, training of graduate students, appropriate undergraduate instruction, and professional education of future nutrition practitioners. REFERENCES National Research Council.
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College of Home Economics, Iowa State University, Ames.
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