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Digital technologies are frequently used in nutrition and dietetics as in many other fields. Positive effects have been demonstrated in community-based nutrition studies and in the creation / follow-up of individual nutrition plans. However, there seems to be no positive or negative consensus among Turkish dietitians on online diet counselling.

La dietetica non ha, come si può pensare, una dimensione strettamente individuale, soggettiva, legata al corpo del singolo e all'esercizio di regole alimentari. Essa è infatti al tempo stesso una pratica individuale e collettiva, corporea e sociale, che sconfina facilmente addirittura nella politica.

OBJECTIVES: To describe dietetics practice in various African countries. METHODS: A cross-sectional web-based survey was administered in 2018 to dietetic managers, educators and administrators in all 52 African countries. RESULTS: Representatives from 18 countries responded to the survey. They were mostly female (69%), about half had completed doctoral degrees (48%), a majority in training roles (84%) with 46% in administrative roles. Respondents ranked hospitals as the highest employer of dietitians, followed by private practice and teaching in higher education. Dietitians in seven countries needed to pass certification examinations post-graduation. Nine countries reported the existence of a professional society for dietitians, with only two of these affiliated with the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations. Only two professional societies are recognized as a trade union by their governments. Poor job prospects, lack of recognition of the profession by the general public and lack of funding for training programs were some challenges identified by respondents. When asked about the perception of dietetics integration and importance, 23% of respondents felt that dietetics was well integrated into the healthcare system whilst 33% felt dietitians were recognized as a key component of the healthcare system. CONCLUSIONS: With the increase in disease burden from chronic diet-related diseases in Africa, dietetics practice needs to be prioritized and adequately funded to effectively contribute to the prevention and management of these diseases. FUNDING SOURCES: No funding.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Overview -- Chapter 2. Holy War in the Media: Images of Jihad -- Chapter 3. Between Enemies and Traitors: Black Press Coverage of September 11 and the Predicaments of National "Others" -- Chapter 4. Commodifying September 11: Advertising, Myth, and Hegemony -- Chapter 5. Rituals of Trauma: How the Media Fabricated September 11 -- Part II: News Texts and Cultural Resonance -- Chapter 6. "America under Attack": CNN's Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11 -- Chapter 7. Internet News Representations of September 11: Archival Impulse in the Age of Information -- Chapter 8. Reporting, Remembering, and Reconstructing September 11, 2001 -- Chapter 9. Creating Memories: Exploring How Narratives Help Define the Memorialization of Tragedy -- Part III: Popular Narratives -- Chapter 10. Step Aside, Superman... This Is a Job for [Captain] America! Comic Books and Superheroes Post September 11 -- Chapter 11. Of Heroes and Superheroes -- Chapter 12. Narrative Reconstruction at Ground Zero -- Chapter 13. Agony and Art: The Songs of September 11 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Contributors.

This article describes and examines the elements and indicators of health, nutrition and dietetics transition in Jordan over the past three decades. The picture of dietetics and hospital foodservice in Jordan has changed drastically along with remarkable transition in nutritional and health status accompanied by very rapid dietary, socioeconomic, epidemiologic and demographic shifts. Accelerated changes have occurred in trends of general health and nutritional status including decline in infectious diseases, increased life expectancy, rise in urbanization, mechanization and market globalization, decreased physical activity, diets have become sweeter, energy- and fat-dense and rich in animal foods. Concordant troubling trends have been recorded for rise in morbidity and mortality of major diet-related chronic disorders, particularly diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity and cancer. In contrast to this transition, the patterns of dietetics and hospital foodservice have changed at a slow but steady pace. Dietetics profession has gained some official recognition and legal status permitting certification or licensing and consultation and private practice, though this progress has been hindered by poor legislative and regulatory attributes and lack of internship and in-service training programs and national traditional diet manuals. This has greatly hindered the dietetics professionalization process and lead to fall short of international guidelines. Thus, dietitians have not attained suitable place in nutritional care process as their tasks have not been adequately set up, resulting in lack of harmonious relations between physicians and dietitians, a major deterrents to dietitians' performance. The need for dietetics organization is recognized in order to shape the profession's face to international standards.

There is a substantial body of research examining racialized narratives about Black and White athletes. However, there is an absence of literature that has specifically explored multiracial identities in the sport context. The purpose of the current study was to examine narratives constructed in the media when discussing the race(s) of multiracial athletes. Investigators conducted a qualitative media analysis using 68 online and print news articles that clearly identified athletes as multiracial. Findings indicated that sports journalists are susceptible to perpetuating certain racialized sport stereotypes when covering multiracial athletes. Media members should make an effort to be aware of an athlete's racial identity and be mindful of not relying on racial stereotypes when writing about multiracial athletes.

There has been a lot of rhetoric in the Southern African countries on the need to politically empower women although this has not really translated into substantial action. The current constitutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa do not provide any quota for women representation in politics. For example, women representation in the House of Assembly has fluctuated from one election year to the other since Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. However, a new constitution appears to take critical steps towards enhancing gender equality in politics by proposing the allocation of 60 "affirmative action" seats for women for the first two terms after the new constitution is adopted. The 60 female MPs would add to the 210 parliamentary seats and the 88 senate seats that the country currently has. While this creates opportunities for more women to enter politics, the level of participation by the women proposed in the new Zimbabwean constitution still falls short of the benchmarks set by several local, regional and international policy frameworks that promote and support women's extensive participation in politics. Thirty five years after the first multi-racial elections brought democracy to Zimbabwe ended the colonial government, the news media, as well as other social institutions, are still in the process of transformation. The news media have a particularly important role to play in a country where political participation is a new experience for many people. Media in Zimbabwe also faces the challenge of ensuring equal and fair representation of the entire population. Gender and media activists, in particular, have taken up the challenge of bringing about change in the media. This paper provides an overview of the current Zimbabwe media landscape with a particular focus on women in the media and politics. The first section presents background information about Zimbabwean women's position in society.

There has been a lot of rhetoric in the Southern African countries on the need to politically empower women although this has not really translated into substantial action. The current constitutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa do not provide any quota for women representation in politics. For example, women representation in the House of Assembly has fluctuated from one election year to the other since Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. However, a new constitution appears to take critical steps towards enhancing gender equality in politics by proposing the allocation of 60 "affirmative action" seats for women for the first two terms after the new constitution is adopted. The 60 female MPs would add to the 210 parliamentary seats and the 88 senate seats that the country currently has. While this creates opportunities for more women to enter politics, the level of participation by the women proposed in the new Zimbabwean constitution still falls short of the benchmarks set by several local, regional and international policy frameworks that promote and support women's extensive participation in politics. Thirty five years after the first multi-racial elections brought democracy to Zimbabwe ended the colonial government, the news media, as well as other social institutions, are still in the process of transformation. The news media have a particularly important role to play in a country where political participation is a new experience for many people. Media in Zimbabwe also faces the challenge of ensuring equal and fair representation of the entire population. Gender and media activists, in particular, have taken up the challenge of bringing about change in the media. This paper provides an overview of the current Zimbabwe media landscape with a particular focus on women in the media and politics. The first section presents background information about Zimbabwean women's position in society. Article visualizations:

This paper presents a study of media representations of youth violence. The way by which media presents the young generation is a reflection of and influence on the development of identity by youth and society's attitude towards youth. No previous studies have been conducted on this topic in Bulgaria, but the ones carried out in some other countries (including the USA and Australia) revealed an ambiguous image of young people with an important emphasis on violence as a part of youth life. 159 news items concerning young people from September 2010 issues of the Bulgarian newspapers "Telegraph" and "Sega" were coded. 21.4% of the news items dedicated to young people dealt with violence. Young people as committing an act of violence or as victims of violence were described with some neutral labels indicating their social group membership (gender, ethnic, territorial, etc.) or with some negative labels describing them as criminals. Young people violence in these two Bulgarian newspapers was associated with sexual issues, medical issues and family issues in more than 30% of the cases, as well as with educational issue in more than 20% of the news items. The image of young people reflected by the Bulgarian media was not only a negative one. 4/5 of the news items in the newspapers described young people as successful students, sportsmen, politically engaged, doing cultural activities, prepared for business, etc. Adults were advised by the media on how to understand teenagers and how to help young people – having a positive outlook on youth, expressing their love and concern for young people, communicating with them, giving them support (including financial, medical, and educational) by means of the state and different institutions.