1.) What is the effect of a high-fat diet on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes? 2.) What is the effect of vitamin C supplementation on the incidence of cardiovascular disease?

1.      Timeline

By 2/5      Each student should identify a nutrition and
disease-related topic

2/6- 5/12  Students
will design one or a series of products based on the topic. Students should
search for scientific articles about the topics, write a term paper, and prepare
slides for presentation.

By 5/13       Each student will submit their individual
term paper to the instructor.

5/13             Presentation

2.      Step-by-step
instruction

I.                   
Identify a nutrition and disease-related topic and formulate
a scientific question of interest. The question should contain (i) a nutrient,
dietary component, dietary pattern/design, or lifestyle modification
intervention of interest, such as vitamin C, eggs, high-fat diet, or use of
nutrition Apps (ii) an outcome related to it, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes; weight loss

Examples of acceptable
questions:

1.     
Does egg consumption
increase the risk of cardiovascular disease?

2.     
Does genetically modified
food increase the risk of autism?

Each student will submit one topic they would like to
explore via Blackboard.

II.                
The instructor will approve the
topic.

III.             
Search for peer-reviewed
articles relevant to the topic; analyze the findings from articles and do a
review on their specific topic.

IV.             
Based on the literature review,
identify an innovative nutrition therapy, a nutrition program/counseling
service, or a nutrition product that you would like to develop. For example, if
your topic is about berry extracts and cognitive function, and you have overall
positive findings from the literature, your product to design could be a berry
extract supplement; If the literature review shows mostly negative results, but you
think that one of the plausible direction is to do a berry-rich diet instead,
then you can propose a pilot treatment program having people follow the
berry-rich menu to test whether your hypothesis is valid.

V.               
Prepare a 5-minute presentation introducing
the product/service you design. This presentation will include the rationale
(literature review), product/service description, innovation, target market, and
competition.

VI.             
Submit a review paper. The review
should be less than 8 pages (including citations), double-spaced, 12-pt font,
Times New Roman, with 1-inch margins.

You can include as many references
as needed. There is no requirement of how many articles you should cite.

The content of the literature review section
may include background information, an explanation of concepts, and a summary of
original studies that either support or reject hypotheses relevant to the
topic. Besides the objective description of study findings, you should also include
your conclusions based on current collective evidence, point out limitations of
existing evidence and what remains to be examined, and finally describe future
directions of research.