Lulu Grace Graves (1874 – July 31, 1949) was an American dietitian, who was, from 1917 to 1920, the first president of the American Dietetic Association.
Early life Lulu Grace Graves was born in Fairbury, Nebraska."A Famous Woman from Nebraska" Beatrice Daily Sun (September 28, 1931): 5. via Newspapers.com She trained as a teacher and taught to save money for college. She earned a degree in home economics at the University of Chicago in 1909."Dietetic Pioneer Beatrice Visitor" Beatrice Daily Sun (November 6, 1947): 6. via Newspapers.com"Nationally Famed Dietitian Dies; Native of Fairbury" Beatrice Daily Sun (August 2, 1949): 1. via Newspapers.com
Career Graves was associate professor of home economics at Iowa State College early in her career. She was professor of home economics at Cornell University, where she began a training program for hospital dietitians.Lulu G. Graves, "Dietotherapy" American Medical Association Bulletin (September 15, 1921): 367. Graves held various hospital positions, including first resident dietitian at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago in 1911 (where she designed a special bland diet for typhoid fever patients), head dietitian at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland from 1914, and superintendent of the dietary department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
In 1917, she and Lenna Frances Cooper founded the American Dietetic Association, for hospital dietitians to meet and discuss the public health and food conservation needs during World War I, and she was the first president.June Payne-Palacio, Deborah Canter, The Profession of Dietetics (Jones & Bartlett Learning 2010): 12–13. Glenna McCollum, "Leadership in Nutrition and Dietetics: Today's Wisdom for Tomorrow's Leaders" Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (May 2014): 53. While she was in office, and after her term ended, Graves was editor of the Dietetics and Institutional Food Service department of Modern Hospital magazine."Dietetics and Institutional Food Service" Modern Hospital (January 1922): 84. She moved to Berkeley, California in 1938. In 1947 she received the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award from the American Dietetics Association.Past Recipients: National Awards, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Death and legacy Graves died from a heart attack in 1949, aged 75 years, at her home in Berkeley."Seriously ill" Beatrice Daily Sun (July 31, 1949): 9. via Newspapers.com"Lulu Graves Rites Today" San Francisco Examiner (August 2, 1949): 28. via Newspapers.com"Lulu Graves, 75, Fairbury Native, Dies in Berkeley" Lincoln Star (August 2, 1949): 8. via Newspapers.com The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics gives an annual LuLu G. Graves Nutrition Education Award.LuLu G. Graves Nutrition Education Award, PHENND.
Publications
Books by Graves include Modern dietetics; feeding the sick in hospital and home, with some studies on feeding well people (1917),Lulu G. Graves, Modern dietetics; feeding the sick in hospital and home, with some studies on feeding well people (The Modern Hospital Publishing Company 1917). Making food attractive for the sick (1926),Lulu G. Graves, Making food attractive for the sick (American Medical Association 1926). Diet in the Treatment of Diabetes (1929),Lulu G. Graves, Diet in the Treatment of Diabetes (Knox Gelatin Company 1929). Foods in Health and Disease (1932),Lulu G. Graves, Foods in Health and Disease (Macmillan 1932). Scientific refrigeration in relation to nutrition and health (1936),Lulu G. Graves, Scientific refrigeration in relation to nutrition and health (Kelvinator 1936). and A dictionary of food and nutrition (1938, with Clarence Wilbur Taber).Lulu G. Graves and Clarence Wilbur Taber, A dictionary of food and nutrition (F. A. Davis Company 1938). She also wrote articles about diet and exercise for national publications including Parents magazine.Lulu G. Graves, "Should the Teens Diet?" Parents Magazine (April 1940): 62, 72–77.
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