Authors: Prashanthi Rao Raman, Esq, MPH, and Erica Gradwell, MS, RD.

Interview: Prominent Academy officials discuss the formal request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to initiate the national coverage determination process. This would expand coverage and reimbursement to include nutrition services provided by registered dietitians enrolled as CMS providers. This request has been published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal and includes strong evidence that Academy members can use to demonstrate the critical role of registered dietitians as part of the health care team.

January 2012 (Volume 112, Issue 1, Pages 149-176).

Authors: Dan J. Graham, PhD and Robert W. Jeffery, PhD.

Video: Watch firsthand as investigators from the University of Minnesota used a computer equipped with an eye-tracking device to determine that most consumers pay less attention to Nutrition Facts labels than they report. Further data suggest that average consumers view label components at the top more than those at the bottom and read only the top five lines on a Nutrition Facts label. Prominently positioning key nutrients, and labels themselves, could substantially impact public health. Video provides supplemental content to the article published in the Journal.

November 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 11, Pages 1704-1711).

Authors: Neeltje Annema, Jane S. Heyworth, Sarah A. McNaughton, Barry Iacopetta, and Lin Fritschi.

Video: Investigators from the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, University of Western Australia and Deakin University discuss the links between fruit and vegetable consumption and three cancers occurring in different parts of the bowel: proximal colon cancer, distal colon cancer, and rectal cancer. Their research indicates that effects on colorectal cancer appear to differ by site of origin and type of fruit and vegetable.

October 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 10, Pages 1479-1490).

Authors: Nicole Larson, PhD, MPH, RD, Dianne S. Ward, EdD, Sara Benjamin Neelon, PhD, MPH, RD, and Mary Story, PhD, RD.

Interview: Dr. Nicole Larson and Dr. Dianne S. Ward discuss the results of the incisive review conducted by investigators from the University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Duke University Medical Center concerning how child-care settings can play an important role in establishing healthy eating and exercise habits in preschool children. They update the results of their study taking recent legislation into consideration.

September 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 9, Pages 1343-1362).

Authors: Jennifer M. Poti and Barry M. Popkin, PhD.

Video Presentation: Co-author Jennifer M. Poti presents an insightful overview of a unique study conducted at the University of North Carolina. It assesses trends in energy intake by eating location and focuses on foods consumed away from home as well as foods prepared away from home. The study demonstrates that the percentage of calories from fast food has increased to surpass intake from schools. August 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 8, Pages 1156-1164).

Authors: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD, Melanie Wall, PhD, Nicole I. Larson, PhD, MPH, RD, Marla E. Eisenberg, ScD, MPH, and Katie Loth, MPH, RD.

Interview: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD, Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, discusses how disordered eating behaviors and dieting in adolescence continue into and negatively impact eating behaviors in young adulthood and what interventions can be taken to prevent this.

July 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 7, Pages 1004-1011).

Authors: Joseph Y. Abrams, MPH; Ryan A. Maddox, MPH; Alexis R Harvey, MPH; Lawrence B. Schonberger, MD; and Ermias D. Belay, MD.

Interview: CDC's Joseph Y. Abrams, MPH (National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases), discusses travel, hunting, and eating venison in relation to prion diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "Mad Cow Disease"), variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and chronic wasting disease (CWD).

June 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 6, Pages 858-863)

Authors: Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, LD.

Summary: The podcast provides a brief overview of the May 2011 Journal's Great Fat Debate series, which begins with this introductory article by Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, LD. Zelman's article frames the debate, and is followed by transcripts of presentations given at the American Dietetic Association's 2010 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo by Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH; Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH; and Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, all of which explore the role of fat in the diet and its impact on health.

May 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 5, Pages 655-658).

Authors: Cynthia A. Thomson, PhD, RD, Jeffrey Stanaway, MPH, Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD, Linda G. Snetselaar, RD, PhD, LD, Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD, Leslie Arendell, MS, and Zhao Chen, PhD, MPH.

Interview: Cynthia A. Thomson, PhD, RD, Associate Professor Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona discusses the importance and implications of nutrient intake and anemia risk in postmenopausal women, the results of a new study using data from the Observational Cohort of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI-OS).

April 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 4, Pages 532-541).

Authors: Kim Robien, PhD, RD, CSO, FADA, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD, Cheryl L. Rock, PhD, RD.

Interview: The authors examine the current evidence supporting nutrition recommendations and the role dieticians can play in preventing cancer recurrence and managing chronic conditions prevalent in cancer survivors, as well as improving quality of life and decreasing health care costs.

March 2011 (Vol. 111, Issue 3, Pages 368-375).