... and to educate students about the impact of food choices and how to make good diet decisions. This activity can also let students experience the advancing role of big data meta-analysis in nutrition research and real life. In addition, it allows students to discuss the complexity of scientific research and its...

... to gather more evidence to support this hypothesis. Although answers are varied, students inevitably mention taste as a possible reason. We then cover three commonly used measurement methods in nutrition research. The first is a method to measure taste sensitivity. Taste sensitivity has been explored...

...Erika T. Machtinger Hands-on activities with live organisms allow students to actively explore scientific investigation. Here, I present activities that combine guided inquiry with direct instruction and relate how nutrition affects the physiology and behavior of the common housefly...

... nutrition processed foods Food production was once a central component of each person’s daily life. Now, however, large, specialized, and multinational industries produce, package, and distribute food. Consequently, the American diet has shifted from being composed predominantly of whole foods...