That same year she went to New York University as chairman of the home economics and nutrition department, with a mandate to bring it into the 20th century.

So if our family relied only on me, we would all be sorely lacking in the nutrition department.

In 1942, when he started the nutrition department, it was among the first at any modern school of medicine or public health.

They included Salam Ibrahim, PhD, of the food science and nutrition department at North Carolina A&T State University.

Marion Nestle, the chairwoman of the nutrition department at New York University, said the new regimen is "a third world diet, associated with all kinds of undernutrition."

James Mangum Jr. felt that he was stagnating after nine years in Montefiore's nutrition department, doing jobs like preparing the trays of food sent to patients.

Mr. Mangum, from the nutrition department, for example, was making $100 a week more there.

The teen-agers are assigned to different sections of the health center, ranging from the dental clinic and nutrition departments to the social work, maintenance and administrative areas.

"Milk contains a big package of nutrients that are especially important to bone health," says Connie M. Weaver, PhD, who directs the nutrition department at Purdue University.

The workshop was organized by Dr. Walter Willett, the chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health.