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Displaying records 21 through 23 (23 total).

Yankelovich, Skelly and White. 1977. Raising children in a changing society. Minneapolis: General Mills, Consumer Center, 146 pp.

Annotation: This report discusses the 23 million American families with children under 13 years of age and how parents are coping with the problems of raising their children in a period of rapid social change. The focus of the study is the family unit: the parents and children. The study is designed to provide understanding, insight and statistically reliable information on aspects of parent-child relationships including discipline, health, money, nutrition, the roles of television and advertising, schools and education, the impact of working mothers, and the transmission of values from parent to child.

Keywords: Advertising, Child rearing, Children, Discipline, Education, Families, Health, Moral values, Nutrition, Parent child relations, Schools, Social values, Television, United States, Working mothers

U.S. Congress, Senate, Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. 1973. Nutrition education-1973: Hearings. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 8 v.

Annotation: This set of reports is published in the following parts: (1) overview, consultants' recommendations; (2) overview, the federal programs; (3, 4 and 5) tv advertising of food to children; (6) phosphate research and dental decay; (7) school nutrition education programs; and (8) broadcast industry's response to tv ads.

Keywords: Advertising, Child nutrition, Federal programs, Mass media, Nutrition education, Television

American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition. 1962-. Collected reprints. Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition, irregular.

Annotation: This collection of reprints from the journal, Pediatrics, discusses ethics and etiquette in advertising, water requirement in relation to Osmolar load as it applies to infant feeding, conduct of clinical trials of substances proposed for the nutrition of infants and children, feeding of solid foods to infants, appraisal of the use of vitamins B 1 and B 12 as supplements promoted for the stimulation of growth and appetite in children, proteolytic enzymes in milk in relation to infant feeding, residues and additives in foods, estrogenic and androgenic agents in meats and poultry, trace elements in infant nutrition, composition of milks, vitamin K compounds and water-soluable analogues, human body composition, infantile scurvy and nutritional rickets in the United States, and selected references on feeding and nutrition.

Keywords: Advertising, Body composition, Food additives, Infant feeding, Infant nutrition, Milk, Pediatrics, Rickets, Vitamin B 12, Vitamin deficiencies
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