JUST PUBLISHED!

The research that I completed as part of my studies in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University is now published in the November 2008 issue of The American Journal of Health Promotion. The article is called, "Measuring Salt Consumption to Guide Behavior Change in Applied Settings: A Critical Review". The journal article focuses on salt eating related behaviors described in research done over the past 25+ years. The article also discusses the possibly inaccurate assumptions made about the types of measures used to quantify how much salt a person eats in a given time period. With the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease in the aging population better methods to assess and control salt consumption are critically needed. The accuracy of measuring how much salt people eat may improve by breaking "salt consumption" into behavioral steps leading from how salt gets from store to plate to table to actual ingestion. Each behavioral step offers an opportunity for measurement, and when clarified, may be easier to identify and to address assumptions about measurement in order to improve the validity of measurement results. For more information or if you would like a copy of the article for personal use, you may contact me at srpark@SalTrax.com or the American Journal of Health Promotion at http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/journal.htm