Study Says Workers In Health
Care Unaware Of Dietary Needs
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uttle about dietary requirements and
don t understand food labels, a study
snows.
A survey of 2,400 people by the
University of South Florida’s H. Lee
Monut Cancer center found that 90
percent were unaware of the daily
recommended intake of various
nutrients and fat.
That same percentage was unable
to distinguish what constitutes high
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low to calculate actual fat content
rom information on food labels.
“At least half of the respondents
said they read labels 50 percent of the
time when purchasing food,” said Dr.
David Schapira, chief of Moffitt’s
cancer prevention program. “But the
vast majority do not understand what
information to look for or how to in
terpret it.”
He said the survey, which included
nurses and other health care profes
sionais, was designed to find out how
much people really know about
dietary requirements.
Schapira recently presented his fin
dings to the nutrition section of the
Food and Drug Administration and
recommended that the agency
simplify food labeling to make it
more understandable.
The FDA is currently developing a
policy that would regulate food
advertising and the health claims
made on food labels'''But Schapira
says that may not be enough to pre
vent the current rash of misleading
health claims found on many food
products.
He has recommended food pro
ducers adopt standard definitions of
high, medium and low amounts of fat
and fiber using guideline^ set by na
tional cancer and heart associations.
Schapira also wants to do away
, with irrelevant iP#crmation on labels.
“For exa^i^peamubuti^^f *!
often highlight ‘no cholesterol’ while
omitting the fact that peanut butter is ;
75 percent fat. It’s very rich in fat and j
calories,” Schapira said.
He said the reforms should be ;
coupled with a public education pro
gram teaching the elements of
healthy diets, how to understand food
abels and how to maintain a healthy
iiet at home and when eating at
restaurants.
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Columnist
Quotes from outstanding black
American women in observance .
Women’s Month past and present.
LOVE
Love builds. It is positive and
helpful. It is more beneficial than
hate. Injuries quickly forgotten
quickly pass away.
Dr. Mary Bethune
ENERGY
Everything that we could write has
been written betore; there’s that
energy therein the universe tor us to
pull from. Many of us just become at
tuned to that energy.
Sonia Sanchez
TOMORROW
Oh, let me not think of tomorrow.
I’m so happy now.
Florence M. Harmon
PILGRIM OF FREEDOM
I feel like a “Pilgrim of God” whose
one mission is to free my people
from slavery. I feel so tail within. I
feel as if the power of the nation is
within me and I will set out to gather
in the flock.
sojourner Truth
BLACK MOSES OF HER RACE
“You’ll be free or die,” she quietly
commanded. Every possible trick
and disguise were used to help the
slaves. Luck held out and I remained
free, which was such a glory.
Harriet Tubman
POWER
Power intelligently directed can
lead to more freedom. Unwisely
directed, it can be a dreadful destruc
tive force.
Dr. Mary M. Bethune
BRIDGES
I am grateful to those who marched
and went to jail because they are all
1 bridges that you and I have crossed
I over to get to this side.
Oprah Winfrey
LIFE
Anytime I’ve tried to plot a plan,
forget it! It never works. So I trust in
where life takes me.
Cicely Tyson
READING
There’s an art in reading, what you
bring and what you take away, and I
want the readers to participate in the
ending. The best books, the books I
always loved, were never over, even
though they ended. Because there’s
always something there you didn’t
quite got. It’s like Jazz which always
makes you hungry for more of it.
Toni Morrison
PATIENCE AND
SELF-DISCIPLINE
We got to teach people that they
can’t start at the top. They start at
the bottom and work to the top. It’s
always better because if you start at
the top, you may fall to the bottom !
and that’s not good.
Hazel W. Johnson
THE FAMILY
I feel that the family still is the
most powerful institution that we
have. It’s the most resilient institu
tion we have; it always bounces back
and finds ways of coping with change.
Geneva B. Johnson
EDUCATION
In a world where the body of
knowledge doubles every six or seven
years, none of us can afford not to .
constantly continue our learning.
Education may be expensive but not
when compared to the price of ig
lorance.
Shirley Chisholm
CHOICE
My career is not just accidental, it
s by choice. I simply try to respond
is best I can to what is needed. To
learn to do and help others to do.
Dorothy Height
ACTION
As much as we love to take new in
piration and determination from
inging “We Shall Overcome,’’ we
must Stop singing “We Shall Over
come” and do it. We must, as Harriet
Tubman, move to action with or
without bootstraps.
Nona H. Bailey
COURAGE
I don’t think one is necessarily born
with courage, but one is born with the
potential. Without courage, we can
not practice any other virtue with
consistency. We can’t be kind, true,
merciful, genuine, honest or open.
Maya Angelou
FEAR
Fear is our greatest enemy. It is the
enemy within. Fear blinds us to truth,
and it’s self-fulfilling. To slay our
fears we must turn on the light
within. But we can’t slay our fears by
avoiding them. Being truthful with
ourselves is the first step toward per
sonal freedom. We must choose a
direction, a belief, a way of being
Choose to be loving in your thoughts,
your feelings, your actions. Faith Is
the flip side of fear. Consider the lilies
of the field.
Susan L. Taylor
rouus
Faith, courage, brotherhood, digni
ty, ambition, responsibility-tf
are needed today as never befoiy. We
must cultivate them as tools.
Marv Bethune
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