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DESIGNING YOUR OWN NUTRITION EXPERIMENT Just like other scientific disciplines,

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DESIGNING YOUR OWN NUTRITION EXPERIMENT

Just like other scientific disciplines, factual nutrition information is based on experimental research that has been replicated many times by different scientists. Below, you will construct a realistic intervention study, using human volunteers, to answer a nutrition related question of your choice. Be sure to include as much detail as possible.

Your Question to be tested:

State your hypothesis concerning your above listed question.

In testing your hypothesis, who will you recruit for your experiment? (Include things like age, gender, health status and the total number of subjects)

Briefly explain your experimental protocol. (Give as much detail about what you will do with your experimental subjects)

Explanation / Answer

Nutrition experiment

We can design an experiment to record the daily food intake of children of various age groups starting from 8 to 15. A questionnaire can be designed such that their food intake from the morning to night before going to bed. The questionnaire may include sections divided as breakfast , lunch and dinner followed by another section named as miscellaneous that may include any information regarding food intake in the form of snacks and midday meals . In detail , the food items need to be mentioned , it their class and calorie intake of each have to be calculated.

* an actual experiment with real volunteers can only be performed and not theoretically hypothesised .