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NutriBits
Welcome to the spring edition of the Department of
Nutritional Sciences on-line publication NutriBits. It
describes accomplishments of alumni, students, staff and faculty.
I hope you enjoy this newsletter and would love to
hear of your accomplishments and comments, so they can be included
in the next edition.
Mike Green
mhg@psu.edu
Congratulations
Alumni
Ida Marie Laquatra '85g will start
a new job May 2 as director of global nutrition for the H.J. Heinz
Company.
| Susan Gerberg Pac ’95
received an Alumni
Achievement Award from the Penn State Alumni Association.
She was one of 13 recipients at the April 8 awards dinner. This
is a new award to honor outstanding professional accomplishments
by alumni 35 years of age or younger. Susan is currently manager
of regulatory affairs for Gerber Products Company. |
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Christina Szadorski Holleman '95
has worked with National Health Care, based in Massachusett for
10 years. She has been their regional dietitian for the northeast
region for the past five years.
Amy Rossi Mobley '96 was selected
to receive two scholarships, the Eleanora Snes Memorial Scholarship
and the Mead Johnson Nutritionals/Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholarship.
She is seeking a doctoral degree in nutrition at the University
of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Debra Miller '96g, PhD (Biobehavioral
Health with minor in Nutrition), has a new job as a senior staff
scientist of nutrition science and communication with Hershey Foods
Corporation, Hershey, PA.
Marlee L. Lemoncelli '99 was selected
for an ECOLAB scholarship. She is seeking a Master of Science degree
in community counseling at the University of Scanton, Scranton,
PA.
| Kimberly
DeNovellis '02 published an article entitled The
Female Athlete Triad in the March 2005 issue of "The
Dietitian." |
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Congratulations
Students
The following seniors received
certificates of achievement from the Nutrition and Dietetics Alumni
Society for their efforts in and out of the classroom during their
college careers at Penn State: Elizabeth Alderton,
Melanie Lyn Grabianowski, Kayla
Matrunick, Julie Ritchie
and Renee Tholey.
Melanie Grabianowski and Elizabeth
Alderton participated in the State College High School
Wellness Fair on April 6. Their booth on nutrition was seen by hundreds
of students, teachers and administrators.
| Julie Ritchie
was selected to receive a scholarship from the American Dietetic
Association/American Dietetic Association Foundation. She will
use the scholarship to complete a dietetic internship.
Julie was also selected as the
2004-2005 recipient of the Department of Nutritional Sciences
Academic Achievement Award. |
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| Holly
Hantz was selected as the
2004-2005 recipient of the Nutrition and Dietetics Alumni Society's
Outstanding Senior in Nutrition award and the College
of Health and Human Development Alumni Award. |
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For the spring 2005 commencement, Julie Ritchie
and Holly Hantz were selected to be co-marshals
for the College of Health and Human Development and Jennifer
Dorward was selected to be marshal for Department of Nutritional
Sciences. College marshals lead all graduating students from the
nine departments and schools within the college into the commencement
ceremony. The department marshal leads graduating students from
the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
| Congratulations to
graduate students Sandhya Sankaranarayanan
and Amy Griel for being selected to receive
travel grants to attend Experimental Biology, April 2-6, 2005
in San Diego, CA. The travel grants are funded by the Nutrition
and Dietetics Alumni Society, an Affiliate Program Group of
the Penn State Alumni Association and the College of Health
and Human Development Alumni Society. |
Mike Green, Amy Griel,
Mary Frances Picciano (NDAS representative) and Sandhya Sankaranarayanan
at EB.
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Congratulations to Amy Griel for
receiving the National Health Research Institute's 'Role of Fatty
Acids in Reducing Inflammation' scholarship from the American Oil
Chemists Society Foundation.
Congratulations to departmental graduate students
for winning awards at the Penn
State Graduate Exhibition held March 18 and 20, 2005. The winners
and their corresponding faculty mentors include:
- First Place:
- Alison Ventura (LeAnn Birch)
“Distal effects of breastfeeding on weight status, diet
quality and pickiness"
- Mohammad Shahnazari (Gary
Fosmire) "Strontium increases the bone density and mineral
content in rapidly growing young chicks"
- Second Place:
- Monica Froicu (Margherita
Cantorna) "Vitamin D receptor deficiency exacerbates
murine colitis"
- Third Place:
- John Gieng (Francisco
Rosales) "Model-based compartmental analysis indicates
a reduced mobilization of hepatic vitamin A during inflammation
in rats"
| Two graduate students
received awards at Experimental Biology for best poster sessions
in the Vitamin and Minerals Research Interest Section (VMRIS).
John Gieng received second place and Sandhya
Sankaranarayanan received third place. Francisco Rosales
mentors both students. |
Sandhya Sankaranarayana
and John Gieng with winning posters at EB |
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Faculty
and Staff Activities
Barbara Rolls and Kris Clark
gave presentations at the 21st Annual Sports, Cardiovascular and
Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) Symposium in Charleston, SC in March
2005. Rolls discussed optimal dietary strategies and weight management
and Clark discussed nutritional approaches to osteoarthritis prevention
and treatment.
Dorothy Blair gave a presentation
at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable
Agriculture on February 5, 2005. The title of her presentation was
Nutrition and Sustainability: Considerations for Dietary Balance.
Claudia Probart currently serves
on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine committee
to assess worksite preventive health program needs of NASA Employees.
| Barbara Rolls'
newest book The Volumetrics Eating Plan was released
by Harper Collins on March 1, 2005. It focuses on techniques
and recipes for feeling full on fewer calories. |
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On April 7 and 8, Brenda Eissenstat,
Marie Kamp and Rose Martin attended
the Area VI meeting for the Dietetic Educators of Practitioners
in Baltimore, MD. The meeting discussed issues related to suggested
changes in the education of registered dietitians.
Rebecca Corwin has given several
presentations at recent conferences. In August, she presented New
Research Linking Food Addiction, Eating Disorders And Obesity: Potential
Therapeutic Targets at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
In December, she presented Bingeing Rats: Possible Relevance
To Substance Abuse at Texas A&M University in
College Station, TX, and Binge-Type Eating In Rats: Relevance
To Substance Abuse at the annual meeting of the American College
of Neuropsychopharmacology in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Kris Clark hosted Barbara
Rolls and Matt Workman, a Penn State student who has lost
100 pounds, on the April 5 edition of Pennsylvania Inside Out:
Your Health. This is an audience participation television and
radio show. Barbara and Matt discussed the new dietary guidelines
and how increasing fruit and vegetable consumption can aid weight
loss.
Claudia Probart received a grant
from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Her proposal was
titled “School Food Service Training Related to the Child
Nutrition & WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004." The funding
will provide mandatory two day training workshops for all 1,000
Pennsylvania school food service directors.
Carla Miller presents KISS:
Keep It Slow and Steady about optimizing postprandial glucose
by using the glycemic index at Ohio State University on April 22.
Rose Martin was elected to the Meals
on Wheels of State College Board of Directors.
Students, faculty and staff presented the following
papers/posters at the Experimental Biology Meeting, April 2-6. 2005,
San Diego, CA.
- Presentation title: Strontium increases the bone
density and mineral content in rapidly growing young chicks.
Authors: M. Shahnazari, G. Fosmire, A. Mitchell and R. Leach
- Presentation title: The accuracy of self-reported
dietary intakes in long-term intervention trials.
Authors: D.C. Mitchell, H. Smiciklas-Wright, W. Liu, M. Grosvenor,
M.K. Hoy, R.T. Chlebowski and G.L. Blackburn
- Presentation title: The effects of walnut consumption
on serum tocopherol in men at increased risk for prostate cancer.
Authors: K.J. Spaccarotella, T. Hartman, P. Kris-Etherton, W.
Stone, D. Bagshaw and V. Fishell
- Presentation title: Nutritional and non-nutritional
correlates of manifestations of infectious illness over six months
of a school-cycle in an urban elementary school in Guatemala City.
Authors: I.L. Ventura, M. del Rosario Armas, M.E. Romero-Abal,
L.E. Murray-Kolb, J. L. Beard, N.W. Solomons and K. Schuemann
- Presentation title: Nutritional status predicts
tests of acquired immunity in healthy older women.
Authors: R.R. Molls, N. Ahluwalia, A. Mastro and A. Cifelli
- Presentation title: Ferritin and body iron but
not Hb are appropriate indicators of response to iron biofortification
in Philippine women.
Authors: J. Haas, J. Beard, L. Murray-Kolb, L. del Mundo and N.
Felix
- Presentation title: The role of biomarkers of the
acute phase response in the interpretation of serum ferritin.
Authors: L.E. Murray-Kolb, J.L. Beard, M-E. Romero-Abal, F. Rosales
and N.W. Solomons
- Presentation title: Relationship of dietary factors
to iron and zinc status changes in religious sisters in Manila.
Authors: J. Beard, L. Murray-Kolb, N. Felix, A. del Mundo, G.
Gregario and J. Haas
- Presentation title: Retinoic acid combined with
polyriboinosinic: polyribocytidylic acid (PIC): a vaccine adjuvant
in neonatal mice.
Authors: Y. Ma and A.C. Ross
- Presentation title: Model-based compartmental analysis
indicates a reduced mobilization of hepatic vitamin A during inflammation
in rats. Authors: S.H. Gieng, D. Patel, M.H. Green, J.B. Green
and F.J. Rosales
- Presentation title: Reach and impact of radio campaign
to increase food stamp program participant intake of fruits and
vegetables.
Authors: B. Lohse, T. Nelson, J. Shunk, J. Gromis and R. Poorbaugh
- Presentation title: Pre- and post-intervention
perceptions of childhood obesity by school food service employees.
Authors: C.K. Probart, E. McDonnell, J.E. Weirich, C. Orlofsky,
P. Birkenshaw and V. Fekete
- Presentation title: Gender impacts efficacy of
weight loss diets varying in protein content.
Authors: E.M. Evans, D.K. Layman, J. Seyler, K. Heinrichs, D.
Erickson, J. Webber and P. Kris-Etherton
- Presentation title: Diets differing in protein
and carbohydrate content produce differential changes in long-term
weight loss and blood lipids.
Authors: D.K. Layman, E. Evans, J. Seyler, D. Erickson, J. Webber
and P. Kris-Etherton
- Presentation title: Interleukin-6-induced inflammation
neither impairs intestinal absorption/cleavage of beta-carotene
nor the absorption of retinyl palmitate in male Sprague-Dawley
rats.
Authors: F.J. Rosales and S.H. Gieng
- Presentation title: Vitamin D receptor deficiency
exacerbates murine colitis.
Authors: M. Froicu, Y. Zhu and M.T. Cantorna
- Presentation title: The homogeneity of intra- and
inter-individual variations of RBP:TTR index makes it a better
biomarker of vitamin A status than retinol.
Authors: S. Sankaranarayanan and F.J. Rosales
- Presentation title: Biological variations of plasma
C-reactive protein and alpha-1 acid glycoprotein in healthy individuals.
Authors: R.K. Pappachen, S. Sankaranarayanan and F.J. Rosales
- Presentation title: Dietary patterns of older adults
identified as plausible reporters.
Authors: R.L. Bailey, H. Smiciklas-Wright, D.C. Mitchell and C.K.
Miller
- Presentation title: Postprandial effects of fat
loads differing in amounts of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
on apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins in type-2 diabetes.
Authors: K.F. Hilpert, S.G. West, P.M. Kris-Etherton, K.D. Hecker,
V. Mustad and P. Alaupovic
- Presentation title: Dietary energy density is associated
with quality of the diet in US adults.
Authors: J.H. Ledikwe, H.M. Blanck, L. Kettel Khan, M.K. Serdula,
J.D. Seymour, B.C. Tohill and B.J. Rolls
- Presentation title: A change in dietary unsaturated
fat does not affect C-reactive protein.
Authors: A.E. Griel, T.L. Psota, S.K. Gebauer and P.M. Kris-Etherton
- Presentation title: Effect of three nutrition bars
on glycemic index.
Authors: R.A. Gabbay and C.K. Miller
- Presentation title: Regulation of anti-micro and
anti-CD38-induced mouse splenic B-cell activation by all-trans-retinoic
acid.
Authors: Q. Chen and A.C. Ross
- Presentation title: Regulation of interferon gamma-induced
signal transduction by pretreatment with all-trans-retinoic acid.
Authors: X.M. Luo and A.C. Ross
- Presentation title: Systematic differences in dietary
recall data of 11-year-old under-, plausible- and over-reporters.
Authors: A.K. Ventura and L.L. Birch
- Presentation title: Improving quality of dietary
intake data: physical activity and plausible reports of energy
intake predict BMI among 11-year-old girls.
Authors: J. Savage and L.L. Birch
- Presentation title: The effects of vitamin D and
dietary calcium on T cell signaling.
Authors: Y. Zhu, M. Froicu and M.T. Cantorna
- Presentation title: Maternal iron deficiency impacts
mother/child interaction.
Authors: L.E. Murray-Kolb, J.L. Beard, R.O. Gilmore, D. Teti,
E. Perez and M. Hendricks
- Presentation title: AGP and CRP are related to
plasma ferritin in African American infants.
Authors: J. Beard, A. Calatroni, L. Murray-Kolb and B. Lozoff
- Presentation title: Complex trait analysis of ventral
midbrain iron.
Authors: B. Jones, K. McCarthy, J. Beard, R. Williams, E. Chesler,
C. Earley and R. Allen
- Presentation title: Iron deficiency alters the
production and location of the dopamine transporter in postweaning
rats.
Authors: J.A. Wiesinger and J.L. Beard
- Presentation title: Effects of binge-type eating
and baclofen on operant responding in rats.
Authors: R.L. Corwin, D.C.S. Roberts and F.H.E. Wojnicki
- Presentation title: Rapid induction of CYP26A1
mRNA and protein levels by all-trans-retinoic acid in naive and
retinoic acid-primed rats.
Authors: C.J. Cifelli and A.C. Ross
- Presentation title: Cytochrome P450 CYP26A1 mRNA
expression is regulated by Am580, a nonmetabolizable analog of
retinoic acid, in neonatal lung and liver.
Authors: A.C. Ross, R. Zolfaghari and N-q. Li
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In the News
Penny Kris-Etherton was quoted on
the CNN/Money
website about the large size and calorie level of the new Burger
King breakfast sandwiches on March 29, 2005.
Penny Kris-Etherton was quoted in
a Washington
Post February 1 article about a new cooking oil called Enova.
The article describes claims made about the oil and nutritionists'
perceptions of those claims.
An article in the January 30, 2005 USA
Today highlighted an article published by Sibylle Kranz
in the February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
The newspaper and journal article emphasized that preschool children
are not getting enough fiber.
On January 19, 2005, the Penn State Student Newswire
had an article about a course taught by Dorothy Blair
titled Nutrition/Science, Technology & Society 497G: Community
Food Security. The article titled, Students Find Interest in
Locally Grown Food, described the course and the outcomes
of the latter part of the Fall 2004 semester where students worked
on and conducted a survey of restaurants in the Centre Region. The
student projects gauged consumer interest and involvement in buying
locally produced food. http://live.psu.edu/story/9798
On January 19, 2005, the Penn State Student Newswire
had an article titled Probing Question: Is Kicking Carbs a Good
Way to Lose Weight? Penny Kris-Etherton and Barbara
Rolls suggested cutting calories as a more successful strategy
for long-term dieting. They say extreme low-carb diets do not promote
healthy and sustainable behavioral changes. http://live.psu.edu/story/9826
Sibylle Kranz was quoted in the January
18, 2005 New
York Times. The article, titled Nutrition: Sugar, but Not
to the Ceiling, discusses the federal health guideline suggesting
the amount of sugar children can have in their diets.
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