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Show Infant Nutrition Information Compiled Handouts consolidating the latest information on infant nutrition have been prepared as a result of the efforts of two Garfield County women. , . Laurie, Samson,, whQ works.directly with expectant mothers and physicians at Garfield Memorial Hospital, saw the pressing need for a single information sheet which incorporated the best and most up-to-date information into one. She expressed her idea to hospital and clinic nutritionist Diane Houston who immediately recognized the merit of her suggestion. As a consulting dietician to Garfield Memorial Hospital and George R. Aiken Kane County Hospital in Kanab, she has kept constantly abreast of the latest trends in infant feeding. As a graduate of Utah State University with a bachelors in home economics and a masters in nutrition and food science, she has taught college level classes in her field and worked with the Women, Infants and Children program for the federal government. In L.A. Young Sons Construction workers began to install additional culverts along a nine mile stretch of U.S. 89 addition she has attended frequent seminars in infant nutrition noting that the field is a constantly changing one. She realized that even physicians .need to be brought up-to-datefin changes and" advances in " lhlantr nutrition since most, after they.Veceive their initial nutrition training, rarely have an opportunity to return to school for updating in other than the most important medical advances. In doing her latest research, Mrs. Houston consolidated all the latest available material on infant nutrition and presented her findings at a workshop for physicians and physicians' assistants in Garfield County. The information combined such sources as the WIC program, health department information, hospital and clinic Information, and other agencies involved in nutrition. which is being recycled. Plans call for culverts to be added to roadway. The physicirjis reviewed, added and deleted material from the mass that Mrs. Houston had compiled. Pertinent information on the latest concepts is now available on two single 816 x 11 handouts one for breast-fed babios-and one for bottle-fed babies. The information has been well-recieved by local expectant mothers and mothers of young children and Mrs. Houston has since submitted the infant nutrition guideline to the South--jkcsJ, District Health Department in St. George. |