NFSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nutrition Facts Label, Dipeptidase, Cohort Study

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Nutrition and Food Science
• Course: NFSC 100
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The science of nutrition and food labeling: study designs. >>good for clinical teaching and advertisements and observations . Not good for statistics or scientific studies because it focuses on such a small number of subjects. >>involves large population groups (ethnicity, gender, nation population, etc. ) >>good for statistics because of large population number. >>relates various things but does not prove cause and effect. >>may be good for statistics depending on size of sub-group. >>experimental design in which you change nutritional intake or lifestyle. >>strong design to test cause and effect because of comparison of change/intervention to no change/no intervention (**golden standard**) >>limited in what you can test in humans. Most common animals used are rats, pigs, or primates because of their similarities to humans. Strong design to test mechanisms for exact cause and effect. In animal studies, results may be limited in the application to humans.