Texas Extension has New Teen Calcium Website http://calcium.tamu.edu/

[Mickey Bielamowicz]

Also, you both may want to check out our new www site targeting young teens.  To our knowledge, our site may be the sole teen web site focusing on calcium nutrition as it relates to prevention of osteoporosis plus its other many values nutritionally. 

 We would welcome the NIH, CDC, other Cooperative Extension services, American Dietetic Association  and other sites adding our site as a linkage.

Check out the new site for the Texas Agricultural Service Extension Food/Nutrition Unit, Texas A&M University at:
                 Welcome  to 
              Clueless in the Mall!! 
        Join us for an adventurous scavenger hunt of
         shopping, playing games, and gathering clues! 

http://calcium.tamu.edu/

A  Dr. Debra Reed and I have collaborated with Dr. Dymple Cooksey, Fred Rodriguez and Diann Mitchell  in TAEX Computer Technology, our webmaster Christy Frantz who was a nutrition graduate to prepare this site. We received a special initiatives grant from the Family and Consumer Sciences Program special contracts/grants program under the direction of Dr. Jennie Kitching  to prepare this site. Pretesting under the direction of Dr. Debra Reed of the site was done with both junior high aged students and regular high school aged students and their input has been made into our site.  Dr. Anna M. Dickey, MD now AMA president is featured as an expert in support of teen calcium nutrition in the video at the site.  

I serve on the Osteoporosis Advisory Committee for the TX Dept. of Health additionally.  Dr. Steve Petak, our chairperson who is an endocrinologist, was on 2 television programs in Houston on Sat morning 10/31 and announced our site at that time.  We will be sending more information about the details of this site in the near future.  

We hope you like our research based educational opportunity related to teen calcium nutrition.  

Debra Reed, PhD, RD, LD
Assistant Professor and Nutrition Specialist
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&M University System
Department of Animal Science
Human Nutrition Section
223 Kleberg Center
College Station, TX 77843-2471
FAX409/862-8404
409/845-6379,
e-mail 
d-reed at tamu.edu

Mary *Mickey* Kinney Bielamowicz, PhD,RD,LD,CFCS
Professor and Nutrition Specialist
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&M University System
Department of Animal Science
Human Nutrition Section
220 Kleberg Center
College Station, TX 77843-2471
FAX 409/847-8741
m-bielamowicz at tamu.edu
409/847-9227

 


>>> "Rosemary Fisher" <rcfisher at rpa.net> 10/31/98 03:21pm >>>

Dear Sarah.
You might want to look at my web site www.foodandlife.com
It has all kinds of information about osteoporosis. i have reversed
osteoporosis. This is medically documented/
If I can be of further help please e-mail me.
Thank you,
Rosemary Fisher
-----Original Message-----
From: Kuester, Sarah <sak2 at CDC.GOV>
To: Public Health Nutrition Discussion and Information Group
<phnutr-l at u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 7:36 PM
Subject: Information Needed on Osteoporosis Education Activities



>Please pardon my cross-posting.

>

>Hello.  The Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity

>at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

>requests your assistance in gathering information about

>public education osteoporosis activities.  Please see below

>for a description of a developing national osteoporosis

>prevention program.  NOTE: Please send your comments

>to Kay Vandiver at khp1 at cdc.gov.

>

>Thank you,

>Sarah Kuester

>Public Health Nutritionist

>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

>sak2 at cdc.gov

>

>---------------------------------------------------------------

>From: Nicole Kerr, RD, MPH

> Nutrition and Physical Activity Communication Team

> Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity

>

>          REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON

>                 OSTEOPOROSIS PROGRAMS

>

>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

>and the U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's

>Health (PHS OWH) in the Department of Health and

>Human Services are collaborating with the National

>Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF)  to develop the first

>national osteoporosis education campaign aimed at girls

>ages 9-18.

>

>To assist with our needs assessment,  please provide

>information on any osteoporosis activity within the state

>that targets girls ages 9 to 18.  Program information

>requested includes:   contact person,  phone number,

>e-mail address, and the following items  in brief:

>               !    name of the program

>               !    years of the program

>               !    target audience

>               !    main objective(s) of the program

>

>Thanks for sharing!  Please send information to:

>

>Kay Vandiver   -    E-mail:    khp1 at cdc.gov

>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

>National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and

>Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)

>Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA)

>