Adventures in diet records: Superbowl Sunday 2009 4 March 2009 10:29 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,food snobbery,geekery,nutrition,school , 2 commentsYes, that’s right, kids, I kept a 24-hour diet record on Superbowl Sunday. The assignment for my nutrition class was to record everything I ate in a 24-hour period, preferably on a relatively typical day. Problem: much of my eating during the week of the assignment was designed to show our guests the awesomeness of New York City’s many delicious restaurant options. I do not typically eat most of my meals out, but that week I made many tasty exceptions to that rule. That said, I typically eat a little better than I did on Superbowl Sunday 2009, and looking over the data I took that day makes me more than a little defensive.
The good news? According to Dr. Nestle in class on Monday, one point of the exercise (and filling out the Harvard Food Frequency Questionnaire) was to show the limitations of diet data. Yay! Also, I was especially delighted to learn about a 1984 study that demonstrated the huge variance in day-to-day nutrient intake (Basiotis et al., “Number of Days of Food Intake Records Required to Estimate Individual and Group Nutrient Intakes with Defined Confidence,” The Journal of Nutrition, (1987) 117:1638–1641). Volunteers filled out daily 24-hour-diet records for a whole year, and researchers analyzed them (more…)
Ask TracyFood: how about those sprouts? 3 March 2009 11:23 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,friends,pictures,recipes,vegetarian , 1 comment so farSo last week Monday I made a delicious dinner that started like so:
and Allison saw the picture on Flickr and wrote:
How did you make these? I need me some green vegis like my stunted artichokes need some damn sun.
Woo, lady — thanks for asking! (more…)
Another belated Monkey Monday. 2 March 2009 1:43 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,cooking,geekery,Harold McGee,news,pasta,pictures,random,school , add a commentLateness and weird timing have sort of been a theme for me lately, dangit. Later this week I will post about the 24-hour food record I did for my nutrition class, and the weird timing issues around that assignment (Superbowl Sunday was seriously the closest I could get to a “normal” day to record). Last week’s timing was such that I was too busy having a sinus infection to do my supermarket participant observation until darn near the very last minute on Thursday — but as always, food stores are completely fascinating to me and the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle is no exception. Check out this awesome shelf tag:
Yes, that’s right. Sea salt and vinegar Kettle Chips fit in a special diet! Celebrate your choices! (more…)
