Question 1
How could you apply these findings to your practice in the future?
posted by Anonymous @ 4:41 PM
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ISU Dietetic Internship Journal Club
Objective: To become familiar with current scientific literature on a variety of nutrition topics and to gain experience in gathering, organizing, critically evaluating, presenting and facilitating group discussion of the literature and the implications to practice.
16 Comments:
It is definitely important to know which populations are consuming insufficient amounts of calcium according to their needs in order to know who to target to provide more focused education on the importance of calcium in the diet. I will absolutely keep this in mind when counseling, especially individuals in the field over 30 years of age. I will inform them about the possible consequences of not meeting their calcium needs, the benefits of calcium, and excellent sources.
This research study demonstrates that there is a need in older populations for nutrition education as it relates to calcium intake and bone health. I can see implementing this type of education in long term care facilities, hospitals, and/or Meals on Wheels programs. This would also be a good topic idea for writing an article that targets this population
Brooke, I definitely agree that this information would be great to keep in mind while counseling. Maybe we will be able to put this to practice at some point during the internship. I think it would be helpful to determine the barriers older clients experience that keep them from obtaining adequate calcium and then work on ways to overcome them.
This would be a good study to reference when counseling patients on the importance of calcium intake. It would be most helpful when counseling patients that are above the age of 30. Young kids also should be taught the many different sources of calcium so they can consume them in their early years to help prevent future problems. Teaching kids at an early age would also get them into the habit of eating calcium sources regularly. So many people think that the only good source of calcium is milk and if they don't like milk there is no way they can get their calcium in without taking a supplement. This would be a good study to hang onto when a patient comes along who needs to boost their calcium intake in the future!
Kathy- I really like the idea of using this article to help provide nutrition education in long term care facilities. There are some fun activities that I'm sure would be beneficial in a long term facility. It may also be beneficial to train the kitchen staff on better meals with higher levels of calcium considering this population struggles to get enough calcium.
Calcium intake was actually the topic I spoke about this week with elders in assisted living, and it is a topic that not a lot of them are aware of. I did find it very interesting that the study said that people 30 years of age and older need to increase their calcium intake. I would have thought the age range would be from an older population. I think these findings can easily be applied to counseling patient's in the future.
Jamie, I am glad you brought up the importance of calcium intake with children, and I hope that a future similar study will be done on this age group. I think it is very important for educators to begin nutrition education at a young age so that maybe in the future the 30+ year olds will have a good amount of calcium in their diets.
The major piece of information that I received from this article is that new calcium information must be given to individuals over 30 years old. I have been pushing calcium in all my nutrition mission sessions in undergrad telling them that this is their peak bone growing years.
Michela I was also surprised that the age was not higher and closer to 50. It does make sense though since bone is at its max. density in the late 20's. Everyone go drink some milk
Calcium education is crucial, for all genders and ages, but especially for women. After menopause, women no longer receive the protective effects from bone loss from high levels of estrogen. I agree that calcium education should be included throughout the entire lifespan as well.
Agreeing with Michaela, it is interesting that they are targeting individuals as early as age 30 when we reach our peak bone mass. It is vital to continue to receive the recommended amounts of calcium to prevent bone loss from occurring before menopause, especially since most women experience a loss of bone mass when their estrogen levels decrease during menopause.
Kathy, I love your idea about utilizing these research result to reach individuals through community, government programs. A larger amount of people could be reached if we target a program that helps this specific population!
This information would let me know who is at risk so that when I was counseling I could make sure to reserve time for calcium education. Not only would I include that it is important to include calcium but I would discuss the different types of calcium and which is important for them to take.
Jamie, I agree with you that it is so important to educate children on calcium supplementation. By the time we are in our mid to late twenties we no longer build calcium stores and so many people do not start taking calcium until it is to late. If we start educating children on the need for calcium we may see less osteoporosis in adulthood.
I think that we all agree that education is key and Kathy and Jamie make some great points about educating while young for good health in the future as well as educating the at risk population for bone diseases. I think it is also important to education that milk and dairy are not the only sources of calcium. The public gets caught up in this because milk is a great source and is advertised so well, but our leafy greens are also a great source and good for many other nutrients as well.
I think this can be applicabletoany population that isbeing worked with so it will be applicable to each of us. Proper calcium intake and bone development is important whether you are working with children or elderly individuals
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