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Lulu Grace Graves

Lulu Grace Graves (1874 – July 31, 1949) was an American dietitian,
Lulu Grace Graves
who was, from 1917 to 1920, the first president of the American Dietetic
Association.

Contents
Early life
Career
Death and legacy
Publications
References

Early life
Lulu Grace Graves was born in Fairbury, Nebraska.[1] She trained as a
teacher and taught to save money for college. She earned a degree in
Graves from a 1921 publication
home economics at the University of Chicago in 1909.[2][3]
Born 1874
Fairbury, Nebraska,
Career US
Graves was associate professor of home economics at Iowa State Died July 31, 1949
College early in her career. She was professor of home economics at (aged 74–75)
Cornell University, where she began a training program for hospital Berkeley, California,
dietitians.[4] Graves held various hospital positions, including first US
resident dietitian at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago in 1911 (where
Citizenship American
she designed a special bland diet for typhoid fever patients), head
Education University of Chicago
dietitian at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland from 1914, and
superintendent of the dietary department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Occupation dietitian
New York.[2] Years active 1910–1940
Known for founder, first
In 1917, she and Lenna Frances Cooper founded the American Dietetic
president of American
Association, for hospital dietitians to meet and discuss the public health
Dietetic Association
and food conservation needs during World War I, and she was the first
president.[5][6] 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.[7] She moved to Berkeley, California in 1938.
In 1947 she received the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award from the American Dietetics Association.[2][3][8]

Death and legacy

Graves died from a heart attack in 1949, aged 75 years, at her home in Berkeley.[9][10][11] The Academy of Nutrition
and Dietetics gives an annual LuLu G. Graves Nutrition Education Award.[12]

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Publications
Books by Graves include Modern dietetics; feeding the sick in hospital and home, with some studies on feeding
well people (1917),[13] Making food attractive for the sick (1926),[14] Diet in the Treatment of Diabetes (1929),[15]
Foods in Health and Disease (1932),[16] Scientific refrigeration in relation to nutrition and health (1936),[17] and
A dictionary of food and nutrition (1938, with Clarence Wilbur Taber).[18] She also wrote articles about diet and
exercise for national publications including Parents magazine.[19]

References
1. "A Famous Woman from Nebraska" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27131954/lulu_g_graves_1931/)
Beatrice Daily Sun (September 28, 1931): 5. via Newspapers.com
2. "Dietetic Pioneer Beatrice Visitor" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27131557/lulu_g_graves_1947/) Beatrice
Daily Sun (November 6, 1947): 6. via Newspapers.com
3. "Nationally Famed Dietitian Dies; Native of Fairbury" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27132317
/lulu_grace_graves_1949/) Beatrice Daily Sun (August 2, 1949): 1. via Newspapers.com
4. Lulu G. Graves, "Dietotherapy" (https://books.google.com/books?id=58y9TiQBHPYC&lpg=PA367&
ots=drJYnDUDpl&dq=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&pg=PA367#v=onepage&q=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&f=false)
American Medical Association Bulletin (September 15, 1921): 367.
5. June Payne-Palacio, Deborah Canter, The Profession of Dietetics (https://books.google.com
/books?id=rdWEkFe6Lu4C&lpg=PA12&ots=i3Daz5cZad&dq=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&pg=PA12#v=onepage&
q=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&f=false) (Jones & Bartlett Learning 2010): 12–13. ISBN 9780763790066
6. Glenna McCollum, "Leadership in Nutrition and Dietetics: Today's Wisdom for Tomorrow's Leaders"
(https://jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(14)00278-0/pdf) Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
(May 2014): 53.
7. "Dietetics and Institutional Food Service" (https://books.google.com/books?id=oAQ-AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA53&
ots=vUqNpwaGwj&dq=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q=Lulu%20G.%20Graves&f=false)
Modern Hospital (January 1922): 84.
8. Past Recipients: National Awards (https://www.eatrightpro.org/leadership/honors-and-awards/national-honors-
and-awards/past-national-award-recipients), Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
9. "Seriously ill" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27132014/lulu_g_graves_1949/) Beatrice Daily Sun (July 31,
1949): 9. via Newspapers.com
10. "Lulu Graves Rites Today" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27132177/lulu_grace_graves_1949/) San
Francisco Examiner (August 2, 1949): 28. via Newspapers.com
11. "Lulu Graves, 75, Fairbury Native, Dies in Berkeley" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27132260
/lulu_grace_graves_1949/) Lincoln Star (August 2, 1949): 8. via Newspapers.com
12. LuLu G. Graves Nutrition Education Award (http://phennd.org/update/lulu-g-graves-nutrition-education-
award/), PHENND.
13. Lulu G. Graves, Modern dietetics; feeding the sick in hospital and home, with some studies on feeding well
people (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007356967) (The Modern Hospital Publishing Company 1917).
14. Lulu G. Graves, Making food attractive for the sick (https://www.worldcat.org/title/making-food-attractive-for-
the-sick/oclc/23200960) (American Medical Association 1926).
15. Lulu G. Graves, Diet in the Treatment of Diabetes (https://www.worldcat.org/title/diet-in-the-treatment-of-
diabetes/oclc/174532622) (Knox Gelatin Company 1929).
16. Lulu G. Graves, Foods in Health and Disease (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001116096) (Macmillan
1932).
17. Lulu G. Graves, Scientific refrigeration in relation to nutrition and health (https://www.worldcat.org/title
/scientific-refrigeration-in-relation-to-nutrition-and-health/oclc/16831602) (Kelvinator 1936).

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18. Lulu G. Graves and Clarence Wilbur Taber, A dictionary of food and nutrition (https://catalog.hathitrust.org
/Record/007477652) (F. A. Davis Company 1938).
19. Lulu G. Graves, "Should the Teens Diet?" Parents Magazine (April 1940): 62, 72–77.

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