Date

Topic

Required Readings

Readings web page

Resources/ 

Optional Readings

Assignments Due

Class 1

Apr 1

BB

Intro: Nutrition and Chronic Disease

Evidence Based Medicine

Heaney

Dietary Guidelines

Lessler
Smith

Evidence Based Medicine: Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation

Brown (Meta)

Required resource:
Van Way

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Class 2

Apr 3

BB

Tooze

Class 3

Apr 8

BB

Diet Assessment Methods

"Measuring Diet" Ch. 3

Pennington
Kristal
Schatzkin (Int.J.Epi '03)

Zaccai
Schatzkin (JNCI '04)

FFQ

Class 4

Apr 10

BB

Metabolic Syndrome

Obesity - Demographics

Text: Ch. 62 (Met Syndrome)

 
Reaven
Fogli-Cawley

Rolls (06)
 

Johnson


Musani

Wardle

Research Review
Form
Baker
18057335[uid]

Class 5

Apr 15

Obesity:

Causal factors

Ogden

Lowe

Christakis

Kumanyika
Ulijaszek
Bray
Drewnowski

.

Class 6

Apr 17

BB  

Weight loss strategies

Weight maintenance

Gardner

Heymsfield

Stevens
Raatz
Baranowski
Weigle

NIDDK:Gastric Surgery for Severe Obesity

Exam 1 distributed (includes sessions 1 through 6)

Class 7

Apr 22

BB

Hypertension

Heart Failure

Text: 68 (Nutr, Diet & Hypertension),

Text: 69 (Congestive Heart Failure)

Mellen

He (CHF)

DASH Diet "NHLBI The DASH Eating Plan" p5-10

Hooper

Arcand

NHLBI: JNC: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.

Class 8

Apr 24

BB

Cardiovascular Disease I  - Lipids and Obesity

Text: 67 (Nutr and the Management of Disorders of Serum Lipids and Lipoproteins)

Akesson

Rudolph

NHLBI - National Cholesterol Education Program
(Tables 2,3,4,5, 6, B1, B2)

Bamba

Brunzell

McCoin

Tarrago-Trani

NHLBI - National Cholesterol Education Program
(Summary)

Grundy (NCP Update)

.Wt Loss Team

Class 9

Apr 29

WSDA Meeting - no class

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Class 10

May 1

BB

CVD – Micronutrients

Traber

Garlic:  Gardner

Vitamin E:  Miller

Bleys

Garlic: Charlson

Vit E:  Lonn

Soy:  Sacks

Exam 2 distributed (includes sessions 7-8)

Class 11

May 6

BB

CVD- Cont’

Anemia

Text: Ch. 92 (Nutr Aspects of Hematologic Diseases)
Ganz
Brouwer

Anemia Handouts
Smith

Exam 2 due

Class 12

May 8

BB

Diabetes 1

Text: 65 (Diabetes
 Mellitus: MNT)

Priebe

Sahyoun

Class 13

May 13

BB

Diabetes 2

Bantle

Miles

Pi-Sunyer

For presentation:

Matthan

Sacks

Cummings

Kalergis

CVD Team

Matthan

Sacks

CVD Presentation - Questions

Class 14

May 15

BB 

Diabetes - Cont'

Bone Health

Bantle

Miles

Pi-Sunyer

Text: Chs. 84 (Bone Biology in Health and Disease, 86 (Osteoporosis)

Bischoff-Ferrari

Cummings

Kalergis

Holick

Hunt

Vieth

.

Class 15

May 20

BB

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Class 16

May 22

Text: Ch. 81 (Epidemiology of Diet and Cancer Risk),

Text: Ch. 82 (Chemoprevention of Cancer)

Larsson

NCI. NCI Summary of Evidence

Prentice

Austin

Dixon

Millen

Class 17

May 27

BB

Cancer Prevention- cont’

Note: Tentative reschedule of presentation pending team approval. 

CA readings – cont’

For Presentation

Bertone-Johnson

Vieth

CA readings – cont’

Cancer Prevention Team

Readings:

Bertone-Johnson

Vieth

Exam 3 distributed (includes sessions 11-17)

Class 18

May 29

Nutrition & Alcohol

Fiber  Gastrointestinal Disorders

Text: pg 431, 1246-56

Di, Castelnuovo

Zhang

Garcia-Albiach

Korzenik

Newby

Jacobs

Rastall

.

Class 19

Jun 3

Physical Activity and Chronic Disease

Supplements and Herbs

Duncan
 

Ribnicky

.Knowler

Bent

NIH State-of-the Science panel:  National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement

Autier

Class 20

Jun 5

Nutrogenomics

Afman

Fuchs

King

.

Alcohol Team

   Fuchs

   King