The College Diet Analysis

The diet this paper will be discussing and analyzing is called the "College Diet". The main premise of the diet is ensuring that the young adult body receives the proper amount of calories from nutritious foods; all with a budget in mind. Many college students eat a poor diet because they are on a small and limited budget. Because the human body needs a certain amount of nutrients for proper functioning and in order to maintain a healthy weight. The diet holds some key essential guidelines that will allow for optimal body performance. These include: High protein intake, Low carbohydrate intake (less than 15% of diet), Drinking a gallon of water per day, low salt consumption, and Low complex sugar intake. At first glance, these dietary restrictions
Foods with high salt and sugar content are also extremely common in the college student diet and when eliminated can have positive health benefits. The "college diet" will follow the World Health Organization's sugar consumption guidelines and limit it to 6 teaspoons of sugar per day (World Cancer, 2015). Because the same organization has found that heavy sugar consumption adds to weight gain, obesity, and an increase in the likelihood of cancer, it is safe to assume that avoiding high sugar intake will decrease these outcomes if all other guidelines are met (World Cancer,
From each gender one third of the students will be the control group and not adhering to the diet, while the remainder will be the test sample representing the entire population of first year university students. For the experiment, all participants will be put through rigorous medical exams and health screenings measuring height, weight, BMI, body fat percentage, resting heart rate, blood pressure, and full blood analysis. After a baseline is taken from all subjects the experiment will run for a full 90 days with the control group being able to eat whatever they want including fatty, sugary, or salty foods, that are high in carbohydrates. They will also be allowed to dicate their own water consumption. They will be asked to carry a journal and document all food and drinks consumed. For the test sample, they will be given a strict diet that eliminates or reduces unnecessary salts and sugars, reduces carbohydrates to a minimum, and given a gallon of water to consume each day. Every 14 days, all subjects will report for a progress check and new exam and screening. This will also take place at the end of the 90 days and results will be compared and