Nutrition Student Performs Research
K
ate Callaway, a senior in Nutrition, has recently helped one of her professor’s perform research on the “freshman 15.”
At the beginning of this semester, freshman students, both males and females, were paid 25 dollars to come in to get measured and weighed. During their first year, they are supposed to write a daily log on what they ate that day and if they exercised.
At the end of the year, those students will be paid another 25 dollars to come back in to get weighed and measured again and to turn in their daily log sheets.
The ultimate goal in this study is to try to recognize a pattern among these students and if they gained the “freshman 15,” the reasons behind why they did.
Callaway worked as a student assistant in measuring and weighing the freshman and explaining the research and log sheets to them.
The research committee on this project is currently working to distinguish patterns. However, nothing will be set in stone until those freshman return at the end of spring semester.
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