9/10/14 kin 110 class notes- Announcements:o Kin club 9.10 Hasbrouck 134 Meeting topics- Yearly topics 10$ for the year, $5 for semester- Info about what the club does, and why you would benefit in joining- NEACSM, Networking, Relay for life Next meeting:- Sept 17th at 5:30- Mary ellen liseno from career services- Quiz this week! Based on reading on moodeo Due Sunday sept. 14th by 11:59 pm- What constitutes a diet?o Diet books?o Weight loss?- Definition;o The habitual pattern of eatingo Diet is simply what you eat every day on averageo Mixed diet? PRO, CHO, and FAT?o Vegan?o Low carb dieto Vegetarian?o Doesn’t mean you eat the same thing every day – it is the average- Habitual pattern of eatingo The averageo Some days you may eat differently Overeat Hardly eat Eat nothing but oreos Feel guilty & eat nothing but vegetableso Over the course of a week, each day may be very different- Suggestions to figure out what you should be eatingo Choosemyplate.govo Mypyramid.govo www.thesnackneutralizer.com you can choose any food, figure out the activity, how much activity you need to do to neutralize what you ate did an example where you ate 7 large cookies – it would take more than 300 minutes on a trampoline to completely burn them offo dairy farmers were mad that they weren’t on the plate- how may days needed to get an accurate pictures of habitual diet?o Between 3-7 days is what dieticians will measure to get an idea of a person’s average diet- Different ways to measure dieto Programso Weigh foodo Track your own diet Meal snap Only a few dollars Figures out calories based on picture of what you ate- Collecting diet information is an inexact science (WHY?)o Because will lie/change what they eat when they are being watchedo It can also be hard to recall what you ate last night, the night before…o Many people believe data are … Subjectivity Flawed science… Look at data with a grain of salt- Why is it important to accurately access diet?o May determine relationships between what you eat & health outcomes- Does high fat cause heart disease?o How would you figure this out?o Identify people who get heart diseaseo Accurately measure amount of fat in dieto Compare who have lots of fat vs. little fat in diet- Graph: % of people who get heart disease vs. dietary fat in dieto People who eat a lot of fat tend to get heart disease more than those who eat a little fat in their diet- Other factors:o Geneticso Ageo Exerciseo Type of fat being eateno Smoking, drinking (risky behavior)o Gendero Ethnicityo Surrounding area – highly polluted, etc.- Does ice cream sales cause murder?o High positive correlation between ice cream sales and murderso Ice cream sales clearly don’t cause murders…o Correlation doesn’t mean causation- Difficult to design studies to get definitive datao Sharper picture of diet and health by looking over timeo Young adults change in diet measure heart disease- What would it take?o Number of people Thousandso Duration of study Yearso Provide food Strictly provided dietso Control for – exercise amount, other risky behaviors, geneticso Cost LOTS of $$$$$$$$$$- How do you actually do this?o Study that answers a big questiono Reasonable amount of timeo Costs not that mucho BIG QUESTION smaller answerable q’s- Break up big question into a series of small questionso Goal: accumulate enough evidence to support/refute your ideao Studies don’t prove anything They simply provide evidence towards an idea Need many studies that support the same idea Takes a long time & a lot of evidence One study could be completely different from another- Study on oreos – they claim that oreos improve performance!o Clearly not valido Who was involved in the test? Men or women? – women Trained Tests?o How many oreos did they eat?o When did they eat?o This was narrowed very quicklyo Clearly not applicable to the entire population- Take home messages:o We don’t know as much as we think we doo Definitive answers are very hard to come byo Science is constantly changingo Be wary of results from 1 study, demand results from multiple studies We can’t trust just
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