FNN 201 Midterm: Calcium’s Relation to Bone Mineral Density in Adolescents

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Nutrition and Food
• Course: FNN 201
• Professor: Fiona Yeudall

Document Summary

Research objective: to establish the effects of iron intake and supplementation during the pregnancy of an adolescent has on the infants iron stores. Dietary assessment method: since we are looking for one nutrient, a food frequency questionnaire will be the best method of assessment. The advantages of food frequency questionnaires arise from the low burden of completing the surveys, as well as they are in expensive to articulate. In addition, the food frequency questionnaire can study a large population of people. This is aspect is important because the larger the sample size, we can assume that the results will be more accurate because they estimate the rest of the population at a greater value (cummings et al, 1987). Food frequency questionnaires are dietary assessment tools widely used in epidemiological studies investigating the relationship between dietary intake and disease or risk factors.