Becoming Proactive With the Whole-Grains Message

Julie Miller Jones¹, Marla Reicks, Judi Adams+2

• ¹Julie Miller Jones, PhD, CNS, LD, is a professor of nutrition at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota. Professor Jones is a past president of the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC). She is current chair of the Nutrition Division of the Institute Food Technologists and worked actively on the Dietary Fiber Definition for the AACC/ International Life Sciences Institute. She is actively working with others to form a consortium to increase the intake of whole-grain foods.; Marla Reicks, PhD, RD, is an Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.; Judi Adams, MS, RD, is President, Wheat Foods Council, Parker, Colo.; Gary Fulcher, PhD, is a Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.; Len Marquart, PhD, is a Senior Scientist, General Mills Inc., Bell Institute of Health & Nutrition, Minneapolis, Minn.