POPULAR DIET PROJECT
The Popular Diet Project allows the learner to gather information on a current popular diet.
Researching the diet allows the learner to research purported advantages and potential disadvantages of the diet. After researching the diet, the learner will complete a thorough evaluation of the diet and determine if the diet follows a pattern for a sound weight loss diet.
Remember, you are researching the popular diet; you are not being asked to follow the diet.
This document contains information concerning your first required project component for the nutrition course. This document will provide specific instructions for the proper completion of your project.
Popular Diet Project (50 points):
A listing of some types of popular diet approaches are provided in your text (pages 274-275) You should not select a broad type or approach (such as a low-fat diet) to do your research on but select a specific example from that type of approach (ie. such as the Pritikin diet). You can choose any specific diet that you would like to research.
Select and complete a different Popular Diet Project topic. Popular Diet topics that have previously been submitted and evaluated for this course cannot be resubmitted for evaluation.
The overall content within your Popular Diet report should include the following:
1) An introduction to the diet that you selected.
2) Advertised advantages of the diet.
3) A daily sample diet (may be submitted in a column or table format) indicating food choices for a selected day.
4) Disadvantages of the diet.
5) Evaluation of the diet;be sure to thoroughly utilize the checklist (use all five
components) Provide characteristics of a sound weight-loss diet (Figure 7-19; page 254) from your text in evaluating your selected weight-loss diet.
6) A conclusion of your research on the diet.
