[Foods and Nutrition 1021] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (60 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

F o o d s a n d n u t r i t i o n 1 0 2 1. First vitamin discovered in 1897 and last in 1948; nutrition is relatively new. Scienti c research: research results are documented and submitted to peer reviewers who then make recommendations on whether the research can be published in a scienti c journal, need to see results duplicated to ensure validity. Scienti c research designs: case study: individuals,treatment and apparent effect. Case control; similar individuals, untreated, don"t want too many variables: epidemiological: study populations, expensive and can take awhile. Effect of differences in lifestyle, genetics, environment, medical services: correlation: simultaneous change of 2 factors; positive/ direct, negative/inverse, may be cause and effect or both factors may be caused by something else. Ex. increase in cancer with increase in lac consumption. Ex. decrease in heart disease with increase in red wine consumed: cohort: monitoring over time, intervention study: population/group/randomized.