Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Trudging Along

I am currently looking at material that is indirectly related to my topic.  The article I annotated this week is about a group of researchers investigating the effectiveness of looking at color photographs of food to calculate weight intake.  While this is not technically the core of my topic, which is more about food packaging, I managed to find some nuggets of information that will definitely be good points to make in a paper.  The most important is that the obese people in the study generally underestimated the weight that they consumed in a particular portion.  This is relevant because the obesity issue in our country today is fueled by people not being able to tell how much they are consuming by merely looking at it.  Of course, in the study, the weight of the photographed food was pre-calculated so that they could tell how far off the predicted weight intake was from the actual.
In the future, I am interested in finding other media sources than the online databases.  I did expand my horizons this week by looking at a different database, but finding a book or two would be extremely helpful to me.

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