C Ritenbaugh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1994 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C Ritenbaugh |
| NOMBRES | C |
| APELLIDO | Ritenbaugh |
| FIRMA | RITENBAUGH C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3307-2727 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
My Nutritional Anthropology Journey
My initial academic trajectory was pre‐med, but early on I discovered anthropology. I soon realized that these were not disparate directions, but that some aspects of health could not be fully understood without attention to cultural aspects of behavior. Food consumption became for me a common thread across culture, archeology, human evolution, and modern epidemiology. A group of anthropology colleagues, with similar interests in the intersection…
Placebo
The anthropological study of placebo intersects with long‐standing interests in the symbolic efficacy of ritual or ritual behavior. Placebo studies in anthropology emphasize both cognitive meaning and embodied awareness as facilitators of the placebo effect. The placebo effect is commonly understood within anthropology as the body's ability to heal itself in response to an ostensibly inert substance or practice. Anthropologists argue that overemp…
Healthy foods prepared at home
Birth outcomes tend to be better among Hispanics than among other ethnic groups, even when matched for poverty and education, and foreign-born Latinas compared to their US-born counterparts. These patterns suggest that sociocultural factors exhibited by recent immigrants have the potential to protect birth outcomes against the instability of minority and low socioeconomic status. To discover potential sociocultural factors, a pilot qualitative st…
Ways of Hoping
Role of theory of mind in emotional awareness and alexithymia
Works of Illness and the Challenges of Social Risk and the Specter of Pain in the Lived Experience of TMD
Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) represent a particular form of chronic pain that, while not outwardly debilitating, profoundly impacts interactions as fundamental to human existence as smiling, laughing, speaking, eating, and intimacy. Our analysis, informed by an expanded "works of illness" assessment, draws attention to work surrounding social and physical risk. We refer to these as thework of stoicismand thework of vigilanceand identify doub…
Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Native Communities
Many of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are preventable, which indicates that lifestyle is a key risk factor. Behavioral change interventions attempted with AI/ANs that focus on lifestyle have begun to incorporate Native cultural traditions, or cultural capital. This article discusses one such Native-based intervention conducted on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, which used…
A Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Obesity Beginning at Birth Among American Indian Children
Environmental and Societal Factors Affect Food Choice and Physical Activity
Sarah L. Booth, Ph.D, James F. Sallis, Ph.D., F.A.C.S.M, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Ph.D., M.P.H, James O. Hill, Ph.D, Leann L. Birch, Ph.D, Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D, Ka
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
Expression and Ambivalence over Expression of Negative Emotion
Inhibition of emotional expression has been associated with the incidence and progression of breast cancer and other chronic illnesses. The important health-related factor, however, may be ambivalence about the expression of emotions rather than repression itself. This cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from 159,557 participants in the Women's Health Initiative examined the influence of expression of negative emotion and ambivalence about …
Expression and Ambivalence over Expression of Negative Emotion
Inhibition of emotional expression has been associated with the incidence and progression of breast cancer and other chronic illnesses. Others have theorized that it may not be repression itself, but rather ambivalence over the expression of emotions that is the important health-related factor. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a long-term, national study focusing on disease prevention among postmenopausal women, is unique in its assessment of…
Obesity prevention
Evaluation of the Southwest Food Frequency Questionnaire
The development of the Southwest Food Frequency Questionnaire (SWFFQ) was undertaken to provide a culturally appropriate means of collecting dietary information for the Southwest region of the United States. The study measured the reliability and validity of the SWFFQ and a modified shortened version (MSFFQ). Hispanic (n = 79) and non‐Hispanic (n = 80) subjects participated in the study and were randomized to complete two administrations of eithe…
Evolutionary perspectives on diet and cancer
New paradigms in genetics and nutrition provide the potential for understanding the interactions between dietary phytochemicals and metabolic variants in physiologic pathways. However, with thousands of genetic variants and phytochemicals now being discovered, the question inevitably arises as to where to focus the research. An anthropological approach may provide a guide to the answer. From an evolutionary perspective, it is clear that enough ti…
Smoking experimentation and initiation among adolescent girls
Smoking prevention and cessation programmes need to address and counter the smoking/relaxation association, which was identified as an important reason for smoking among adolescent girls. Questions typically used in surveys to measure smoking behaviour do not adequately define the smoking experience as described by teenagers
Dietary acculturation among the Dogrib Indians of the Canadian northwest territories
The Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories are undergoing change from a "traditional" to a "modem" life‐style. Such transitions are often associated with the appearance of previously unknown chronic diseases. This study was undertaken to identify patterns of dietary acculturation that may be associated with the appearance of hyperglycemia and diabetes in a population that currently has low prevalence of these conditions. Dietary dat…
Prevalence and functional correlates of obesity in an Egyptian village
The objective of this analysis was to investigate obesity and its correlates in 147 men and 286 women 15 to 74 years from the Egyptian project of the Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP). According to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS, 1983) standards for body mass index (BMI), nearly twice the proportion of women (25.1 and 10.1%) were overweight or obese compared to men (12.9 and 6.8%), using body mass index (BMI). A…
Breast cancer incidence and screening practices among university faculty women
Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females
The paper examines body image ideals and dieting behaviors among African American and White adolescent females. Data are drawn from focus groups, individual interviews, and surveys. African American females were found to be more flexible than their White counterparts in their concepts of beauty and spoke about making what you've got work for you. In contrast, many White adolescent females expressed dissatisfaction with their body shape and were f…
"Ruminations on "A Medical Anthropologist's Ruminations on NIH Funding
Dependability and precision of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal field study in an Egyptian village
Reliability and its components, precision and dependability, are analyzed for a complex dataset involving longitudinal anthropometric measurements on subjects of varying ages in an Egyptian village setting. Results are compared with other published datasets. Technical error of measurement is similar to or compares favorably with other datasets for both adults and children. Overall reliability is strongly influenced by dependability coefficients, …
Body size and shape
Beyond the thrifty gene
Several models have been proposed to explain the high prevalence of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and other diseases among New World populations. This paper examines the implications of a northern hunting adaptation (reliance on animal foods, seasonal shortages) in terms of energy digestion, absorption, metabolism and storage. Physiologic adaptations to a high protein, moderate fat, low carbohydrate diet are then examined in the…
Dietary change and plasma glucose levels in an Amerindian population undergoing cultural transition
Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females
The paper examines body image ideals and dieting behaviors among African American and White adolescent females. Data are drawn from focus groups, individual interviews, and surveys. African American females were found to be more flexible than their White counterparts in their concepts of beauty and spoke about making what you've got work for you. In contrast, many White adolescent females expressed dissatisfaction with their body shape and were f…
Dietary change and plasma glucose levels in an Amerindian population undergoing cultural transition
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
Beyond the thrifty gene
Several models have been proposed to explain the high prevalence of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and other diseases among New World populations. This paper examines the implications of a northern hunting adaptation (reliance on animal foods, seasonal shortages) in terms of energy digestion, absorption, metabolism and storage. Physiologic adaptations to a high protein, moderate fat, low carbohydrate diet are then examined in the…
Body size and shape
Works of Illness and the Challenges of Social Risk and the Specter of Pain in the Lived Experience of TMD
Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) represent a particular form of chronic pain that, while not outwardly debilitating, profoundly impacts interactions as fundamental to human existence as smiling, laughing, speaking, eating, and intimacy. Our analysis, informed by an expanded "works of illness" assessment, draws attention to work surrounding social and physical risk. We refer to these as thework of stoicismand thework of vigilanceand identify doub…
"Ruminations on "A Medical Anthropologist's Ruminations on NIH Funding
Evolutionary perspectives on diet and cancer
New paradigms in genetics and nutrition provide the potential for understanding the interactions between dietary phytochemicals and metabolic variants in physiologic pathways. However, with thousands of genetic variants and phytochemicals now being discovered, the question inevitably arises as to where to focus the research. An anthropological approach may provide a guide to the answer. From an evolutionary perspective, it is clear that enough ti…
Reactivity of Garbage Analysis
V. Human Variation and Adaptability
Model Course Iv
Physical Anthropology
Committee on Nutritional Anthropology
Obesity as a culture-bound syndrome
Human Sex Differences
Nutritional Anthropology
Reactivity of Garbage Analysis
Physical Anthropology in Diet and Cancer Studies
I have been working in Nutritional Anthropology since 1975, and at the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the University of Arizona since 1980. My first presentation to the Arizona Cancer Center occurred at a retreat in November, 1983. It was followed by a series of collaborative efforts through 1984, which in turn led to my becoming Program Coordinator for Diet and Cancer in 1985. This position is part of the Cancer Prevention and Co…
Applied Anthropology
Dietary change and plasma glucose levels in an Amerindian population undergoing cultural transition
Beyond the thrifty gene
Several models have been proposed to explain the high prevalence of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and other diseases among New World populations. This paper examines the implications of a northern hunting adaptation (reliance on animal foods, seasonal shortages) in terms of energy digestion, absorption, metabolism and storage. Physiologic adaptations to a high protein, moderate fat, low carbohydrate diet are then examined in the…
Dependability and precision of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal field study in an Egyptian village
Reliability and its components, precision and dependability, are analyzed for a complex dataset involving longitudinal anthropometric measurements on subjects of varying ages in an Egyptian village setting. Results are compared with other published datasets. Technical error of measurement is similar to or compares favorably with other datasets for both adults and children. Overall reliability is strongly influenced by dependability coefficients, …
Body size and shape
"Ruminations on "A Medical Anthropologist's Ruminations on NIH Funding
Breast cancer incidence and screening practices among university faculty women
Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females
The paper examines body image ideals and dieting behaviors among African American and White adolescent females. Data are drawn from focus groups, individual interviews, and surveys. African American females were found to be more flexible than their White counterparts in their concepts of beauty and spoke about making what you've got work for you. In contrast, many White adolescent females expressed dissatisfaction with their body shape and were f…
Dietary acculturation among the Dogrib Indians of the Canadian northwest territories
The Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories are undergoing change from a "traditional" to a "modem" life‐style. Such transitions are often associated with the appearance of previously unknown chronic diseases. This study was undertaken to identify patterns of dietary acculturation that may be associated with the appearance of hyperglycemia and diabetes in a population that currently has low prevalence of these conditions. Dietary dat…
Prevalence and functional correlates of obesity in an Egyptian village
The objective of this analysis was to investigate obesity and its correlates in 147 men and 286 women 15 to 74 years from the Egyptian project of the Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP). According to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS, 1983) standards for body mass index (BMI), nearly twice the proportion of women (25.1 and 10.1%) were overweight or obese compared to men (12.9 and 6.8%), using body mass index (BMI). A…
Smoking experimentation and initiation among adolescent girls
Smoking prevention and cessation programmes need to address and counter the smoking/relaxation association, which was identified as an important reason for smoking among adolescent girls. Questions typically used in surveys to measure smoking behaviour do not adequately define the smoking experience as described by teenagers
Evolutionary perspectives on diet and cancer
New paradigms in genetics and nutrition provide the potential for understanding the interactions between dietary phytochemicals and metabolic variants in physiologic pathways. However, with thousands of genetic variants and phytochemicals now being discovered, the question inevitably arises as to where to focus the research. An anthropological approach may provide a guide to the answer. From an evolutionary perspective, it is clear that enough ti…
Evaluation of the Southwest Food Frequency Questionnaire
The development of the Southwest Food Frequency Questionnaire (SWFFQ) was undertaken to provide a culturally appropriate means of collecting dietary information for the Southwest region of the United States. The study measured the reliability and validity of the SWFFQ and a modified shortened version (MSFFQ). Hispanic (n = 79) and non‐Hispanic (n = 80) subjects participated in the study and were randomized to complete two administrations of eithe…
Obesity prevention
Expression and Ambivalence over Expression of Negative Emotion
Inhibition of emotional expression has been associated with the incidence and progression of breast cancer and other chronic illnesses. Others have theorized that it may not be repression itself, but rather ambivalence over the expression of emotions that is the important health-related factor. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a long-term, national study focusing on disease prevention among postmenopausal women, is unique in its assessment of…
Expression and Ambivalence over Expression of Negative Emotion
Inhibition of emotional expression has been associated with the incidence and progression of breast cancer and other chronic illnesses. The important health-related factor, however, may be ambivalence about the expression of emotions rather than repression itself. This cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from 159,557 participants in the Women's Health Initiative examined the influence of expression of negative emotion and ambivalence about …
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