Nutrition
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
What type of study is (a) Study 1 and (b) Study 2?
Write a 2 to 3 paragraphs to explain your answer for (a) and (b).
Roughly how many people are enrolled in: (a) Framingham Heart Study?
Nurses Health Study?
Black Women’s Health Study?
Hispanics Health Study?
After viewing the NHANES videos—(https://youtu.be/EXXTQlju_Nc, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QQm-Ke6w90)
What did you find surprising (unexpected) and/or disturbing?
If selected for NHANES would you participate in the NHANES survey? Explain–Why? Why not?
Explain why or why not—(1-3 paragraphs)—consider what you learned from epidemiology readings.
What is the glycemic index (GI)?
The glycemic index is a value assigned to foods based on how slowly or how quickly those foods cause increases in blood glucose levels.
Foods low on the glycemic index (GI) scale tend to release glucose slowly and steadily. Foods high on the glycemic index release glucose rapidly.
Low GI foods tend to foster weight loss, while foods high on the GI scale help with energy recovery after exercise, or to offset hypo- (or insufficient) glycemia.