Susan Meacham

Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine | VCOM · Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Public Health

Objectives This research, conducted in rural under served southwest Virginia, determined outcomes for the Healthy People 2020 Nutrition and Weight Status Objective to assess implementation of provider nutrition education in office visits to promote nutrition as a component of routine preventive medicine. Methods The authors' prior research, clinic...

Objectives To determine differences in nutritional status to guide the culturally specific education interventions. Methods Pilot training occurred in each country using consistent equipment and measurement protocols. The IRB approved protocol for pretesting and educational interventions was conducted daily for a month at each location. Descriptiv...

Background: Lyme Disease (LD) is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, affecting over 300,000 people in the United States each year. If early LD goes undetected or is inadequately treated, the causative spirochete bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, can disseminate throughout the body and cause chronic symptoms that will...

Objectives: The objective is to confirm waist circumference measures as practical complementary measures to BMI to identify those at risk for obesity and non-communicable diseases in Salvadoran women in an international nutrition study. Methods: Anthropometric data was collected during the pre-testing and educational intervention phase of an int...

Objectives: There are differences in documented nutrition sensitive conditions and different barriers to obtaining adequate nutrition influencing health in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras. Methods: The research protocol is to be conducted in permanent osteopathic medical clinics in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Hondura...

Purpose: This study was to investigate weaning practices used by mothers when transitioning infants from breast milk to complementary foods and to determine the role these foods have in the transmission of gastrointestinal parasites. Participants and methods: On average, of the 175 mothers extensively interviewed, 93% said they had breast-fed th...

Context: Cancer mortality rates in the United States have improved during the past 40 years. The improvement in mortality rates is not equal for all types of cancer or all geographic locations, however. Objective: To compare trends in cancer mortality rates in Virginia counties from 2005 through 2009. Methods: Publicly available data from the...

Determine whether select cause of death mortality disparities in four Appalachian regions is associated with coal mining or other factors. We calculated direct age-adjusted mortality rates and associated 95% confidence intervals by sex and study group for each cause of death over 5-year time periods from 1960 to 2009 and compared mean demographic a...

Growing evidence from a variety of experimental models shows that boron is a bioactive and beneficial (perhaps essential) element for humans. Reported beneficial actions of boron include arthritis alleviation or risk reduction, bone growth and maintenance, central nervous system function, cancer risk reduction, hormone facilitation, and immune resp...

For over twenty years boron has been of interest to investigators confirming the safety and essentiality of the element in humans. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and pulses are natural sources of boron in the diet which world wide averages about 1-3 mg daily for most adults. In boron-rich regions of Turkey drinking water sources with 29 mg boron/liter a...

The science supporting the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D, and fluoride was examined in this review. Along with the previous article on calcium in this series both of these reviews represent all the DRI for nutrients considered essential for bone metabolism and health, as reported in the Dietary Reference Intak...

In this article the science relied on to establish the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) specifically for calcium was examined. The latest dietary recommendations for the essential nutrients significant with respect to their roles in bone metabolism and health were reported in the Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin...

Boron, an element ubiquitous in the earth’s crust can be found in most soil types as well as in fresh and salt water, consequently, boron is a natural constituent in the human diet (Nemodruk and Karalova, 1969, Meacham and Hunt, 1998). In a typical adult daily intakes of boron were measured to be approximately 1 mg/day (Meacham and Hunt, 1998, Rain...

This is the second in a series of articles reviewing the recent revisions of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and the resulting Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI). In April of 2000, the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences released Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids. The centra...

This is the first in a series of articles reviewing the recent revisions of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and the resulting Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI). In the United States our nutrient guidelines have had far reaching applications to human health and agricultural practices. The broad use of the previous edition of the Recommended D...

Of the ultratrace elements recently reviewed by the Micronutrient Panel of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, boron (B) has been the most extensively studied in regards to its nutritional importance for animals and humans; yet the panel concluded that the data were insufficient to determine an estimated average requir...

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: Food intake and self-reported lifestyle patterns of food stamp and non-food stamp recipients were compared. When 24-hour diet recall data were compared to the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI), mean intakes for energy were below 100% of the RDA for all participants. Food stamp recipients reported higher...

Knowledge of daily boron (B) intakes will assist researchers in establishing B requirements and elucidating the metabolic role of B in humans. B concentrations in commonly consumed foods were utilized to approximate the B intake of selected US populations. Triplicate food samples were digested at low temperatures with 16 M HNO3 and 30% H2O2, and an...

Major mineral nutrient intakes, bone mineral density and body composition analyses were performed on women in a follow-up study two years after participation in a study identifying subject's polymorphisms of vitamin D receptor and collagen genotypes. Non-smoking, Caucasian females (n=68) returned for follow-up bone densitometry by Lunar dual energy...

The Passport™, a new, low-profile gastrostomy device, was evaluated for primary performance of patient or caregiver ease of use, incidence of inadvertent removal by patient, and incidence of clogging. (Wilson-Cook Medical, Inc. Winston-Salem, NC) Secondary performance of the device was evaluated for length of physician placement time and ease of ph...

Effects of consumption of 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables on body mass index (BMI), percent body fat, and intake of selected nutrients were assessed in 328 low-income women. Lifestyle patterns such as smoking, alcohol intake, and frequency of physical exercise were also determined to assess differences in women consuming 5 or more fruit...

LEARNING OUTCOME: To determine associations between eating 5 or more fruits or vegetables on BMI, %body fat, nutrient intake, smoking, exercise, and alcohol intake. Does participation in Food Stamp or WIC programs, more education or higher incomes increase the likelihood that individuals will ingest 5 or more fruits or vegetables daily? What effect...

Whether the Food Stamp program improves the diet of recipients is uncertain. Anthropometric and dietary data were collected from low income women throughout South Carolina; 93 Food Stamp participants (FS), 70 non-participants (NP). FS were older (34±11 vs 30±13 yr, p ≤ 0.05) and had less education than NP. Mean body mass index (kg/m2) and percent b...

Because current food data bases do not contain sufficient cadmium values, the 234 foods most commonly consumed by Americans, as determined by the FDA Total Diet Study Program, were analyzed for Cd content; also analyzed were composite diets representative of toddlers (TOD, 2 yrs), adolescent (ADL, 14-16 yr), and mature (MAT, 60-65 yr) females const...

LEARNING OUTCOME: To assess differences in anthropometric and dietary parameters of Food Stamp recipients and non-recipients for The Food Stamp Program supplements income for food purchases; however, whether it improves the diet of recipients is uncertain. Anthropometric and dietary data were collected from 163 low income women in South Carolina. N...

The United States estimated safe and adequate daily dietary intakes (ESADDI) (mcg/d) of molybdenum (Mo) are for children 1-3 yr, 25-50; for adolescents, 75-200; and for adults, 75-250. The 234 most commonly consumed American foods, as defined by the FDA Total Diet Study, were analyzed for Mo content; also analyzed were composite diets representativ...

Food stamps given without nutrition education did not improve nutrition status in a group of disadvantaged women in the Southeast. Anthropometric, dietary, and biochemical data were collected from 123 low income women. Sixty-three women participated in the Food Stamp Program, and 60 women did not receive food stamps (control group). Ages ranged fro...

It has been reported that boron may be beneficial for optimal calcium metabolism and, thus, optimal bone metabolism. Therefore, we designed a study to determine the effects of boron supplementation on blood and urinary minerals in athletic subjects and sedentary control subjects consuming self-selected typical Western diets. Serum phosphorus concen...

The effects of boron supplementation on blood and urinary minerals were studied in female college students--17 athletes and 11 sedentary controls--over a one-year period. The athletes had lower percent body fat and higher aerobic capacities than sedentary controls. Athletic subjects consumed more boron in their normal diets than sedentary subjects;...

Osteoporosis is a disease that characteristically afflicts postmenopausal women. It is estimated that millions of people are plagued yearly with this debilitating disease. Associated health care costs are in the billions of dollars, annually. Much research has been conducted in the area of osteoporosis and mineral supplementation, mainly focusing o...

Training and competing in desert environments may exacerbate concerns related to disordered eating, supplement use, and hydration in some student athlete populations. A survey

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 1981. Directed by Dennis R. Campion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-83).