Tag: food nutrition
Statistics
Food nutrition research is a great source of data. In no time thousands and thousands of values can be generated and fed into a statistics program. Every nutrient is a variable. Other variables identify subjects, date, day of the week, height, weight, etc. All one needs to add to this is something which identifies the…
Food history questionnaires
A lot of nutrition research is done through the use of the food history questionnaire. This is different from food recalls in that it is shorter, easier to administer and does not require special interviewing skills. The downfall is that it is a fairly “blunt” instruments. With a bit of care in its construction some…