Some Preliminary Biochemical Findings in Junior High School Children in Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York

Evaluation of the Nutritional Status of Elderly Subjects, With a Comparison Between Fall and Spring*

“…Overweightness, as judged by being at least 10 per cent over the average weight for height, was 50 per cent more prevalent among the females than among the males. Studies of this age group and of young groups by others (3, 4) support this evidence. The females, as expected, also exhibited greater skinfold thickness than did the males.…”

“…In Table 16 are presented the determinations for the total group, showing some highly significant statistical correlations (P = <0.0001). In this elderly group, there was a greater correlation between weight and right triceps skinfold ( r = 0.51) than in junior high school subjects ( r − 0.41) (3), and the correlation was higher ( r = 0.69) for the females in this study than for the males ( r = 0.51). There were also significant correlations between the various transketolase factors as well as between the urinary excretions of thiamine and riboflavin.…”

“…In Table 1 the data on the “percentage of average weight” [calculated on the basis of Table 80 in “Heights and Weights of Adults in the United States” (2)] are compared with the data on skinfold thickness (right triceps) determined as previously described (1, 3). It was clearly evident that skinfold thickness increased as the “percentage of average weight” increased.…”

Malnutrition, learning, and intelligence.

“…Owen and Dram (1969) studying nutritional status in Mississippi preschool children found not only that the poorer children were on the average smaller than more affluent children but that their diets were significantly low in calories, vitamin C, calcium and riboflavin. Dibble, et al (1965) in Onondaga County, New York found that among students drawn from a junior high school which was 94 per cent Negro and predominantly laboring class, 41 per cent had come to school without breakfast; but in two "overwhelmingly white" junior high schools, only 7 per cent in one school and 4 per cent in the other had skipped breakfast. In recent studies among teen-agers in Berkeley, California, Hampton et al (1967) and Huenemann et al (1968) have found intakes of all nutrients declining with socioeconomic status, with Negro girls and boys having worse intakes than those in other ethnic groups.…”

Health and The Education of Socially Disadvantaged Children

“…A study of the nutritional status of junior high school children in Onondaga County, New York (Dibble et al 1965) compared subjects from broadly different economic groups. School 'M' was 94 per cent Negro, while Schools 'L' and 'J' were overwhelmingly white.…”