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Effectiveness Of Nutrition Counseling In Young Adult Males, D. R. Williams, Nancy M. Lewis
Effectiveness Of Nutrition Counseling In Young Adult Males, D. R. Williams, Nancy M. Lewis
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications
The purpose of this project was to determine if the addition of a laboratory measurement, i.e., measurement of serum cholesterol, would increase the effectiveness of nutrition counseling in young men. Subjects were a random sample of 45 healthy male students from a Midwestern university, between the ages of 20 and 25 who were consuming >30% of kcal from fat. Men were randomly assigned to one of four groups; nutrition counseling and measurement of serum cholesterol (NC + SC), nutrition counseling only (NC), measurement of serum cholesterol only (SC), or control (C). At weeks 1 and 6, participants completed a 24-hour …