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RMIT University
School of Applied Sciences

Nutrition, Health & Disease : 2016
Postgraduate Course OHTH 2080

Assignment

As part of the assessment for this course, postgraduate students must complete an essay on one of the nutrition topics listed below. The essay should include subheadings where relevant and take the form of a mini review paper as seen in peer reviewed journals. It is expected that scientific papers and scientific texts (not popular press, magazines etc) are cited (in the text) and referenced correctly (this means a reference list at the end of the essay as you would see in scientific papers, not footnotes on the pages). The citation and referencing style is the Harvard style where text citations are author name and year (in brackets) and the reference list is by alphabetical order (see details at the end of this assignment for referencing methods for different sources).

Use of Medline (Pubmed) is recommended to find relevant information from published studies, although scientific text books may give broad general information to start with. Avoid over use of web sites, particularly private or company sites (though some government and official scientific bodies may have useful web information based on “real” research).

Avoid plagiarism, this includes copying and pasting material from web pages and books/papers etc or from other students (this will be checked for and serious penalties will apply). Marks will be allocated for layout, referencing, breadth of material, accuracy and overall ability to condense a critical area of nutrition/health information into a concise and meaningful article.

Topic choices:

1. Saturated fatty acids in the diet and their effect on cholesterol metabolism
2. A comparison of Paleo and Vegan diets (Foods, nutrients and health)
3. Omega-3 fats in the diet (food sources, types and health)
4. The glycaemic index of carbohydrate containing foods (types, effect on blood glucose and health implications)

Assignment value:

10% of final course assessment

Due date:

Friday 13th May (week 10)

Essay size:

The essay should be between 900-1100 words, not including reference list (penalties apply for essays outside this range). NOTE: This is partly an exercise in testing your ability to analyse a mass of complex information and reduce it to a concise article, as scientists often have to do.

Presentation:

Typed and printed single side A4 paper with cover page indicating your name, course name and essay title and year (2016) and the program you are enrolled in. Use subheadings where ever appropriate and some use of dot points are allowed where they may summarise information clearly and concisely, (within an overall essay layout). Use 2.5 cm left and right margin settings and font (your choice) size 12. Underlining is to be avoided but use of bold for headings and other important points is allowed. Reference list should be on a separate page at the end of the essay. All pages should be numbered and have your name and student number and course code (OHTH2080) in a footer on every page.

Referencing notes :

Examples of reference formats

Detailing references in a list at the end of a report also follows a convention. Because many different resources may be used, it is necessary to be aware of the requirements for each. Below is a list of different types of references and how they should be cited.

Reference type Example
Article in a journal Mann, N., Sinclair, A., Pille, M., Johnson, L., Warrick, G., Reder, E., & Lorenz, R. (1997). The effect of short-term diets rich in fish, red meat, or white meat on thromboxane and prostacyclin synthesis in humans. Lipids, 32 (6), 635-644.

Magazine or newspaper Young, R. (1996, May 8). Cholesterol-killing margarine ready to win shoppers’ hearts. The Times (London), F1-F2.

Booklet or text Reynolds, J., Dommers, E., & Spillman, D. (1996) Towards a Framework for Food and Nutrition Education in Australian Schools. (2nd ed.). Kelvin Grove, Queensland: Home economics Institute of Australia, School of Public Health, QUT.

Booklet or text, Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community only part being cited Services, (1992). Food and Nutrition Policy. Policy Statement
(pp.12-14). Canberra, ACT:Australian Government publishing Service.

A chapter within a Marshall, D. (1995). Introduction: food choice, the food consumer multi-author text. and food provisioning. In D. Marshall, (Eds.), Food Choice and
the Consumer (pp. 99-135). Glasgow: Blackie Academic and Professional.

An article in a multi-author Powell, G.D. (1997). Perfect harmony. In Vogue Australia Wine text and Food Cookbook. N.S.W: Conde Nast Publications Pty Ltd.

A text Whitney, E., & Rolfes, S. (1999). Understanding Nutrition (8th ed.). CA, USA: West Wadsworth.

Article in one volume of an Schaefer, G. (1987) The total human system, In P.J. Kelly & J.L. edited, multi-volume work Lewis, (Eds.), Science, technology, education and future human
needs: Vol. 5. Education and Health (pp.1-101). Britain: Pergamon Press.

Article from conference Worsley, A., Skrzypiec, G., & Norman, M. (1996). Food Choice; proceedings, published as Beyond attitudes – linking society to the individual. In A. Worsley a book. (Ed.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food Choice. [Proceedings
of the Food Choice Conference, Department of Community Medicine. University of Adelaide, South Aust]. (pp.237-288). University of Adelaide, South Aust: Department of Community Medicine.

Conference proceedings Harris, W.S. (1995). n-3 Fatty acids and serum lipoproteins: published as a periodical animal studies. Individual fatty acids and cardiovascular disease.
(Proceedings of a symposium held in Washington, D.C). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (Suppl. 5), 1645-1654.

Article published in Truswell, A. (1990). The philosophy behind the Recommended supplement to a journal Dietary Intakes: Can they be harmonised? European Journal of
Clinical Nutrition, 44 (Suppl. 2), 3-11.

Corporate author Australia New Zealand Food Authority (1996). Gene technology in the food Supply. The Food Standard, 21 (June/July), 10-11.

Article on the internet Author (Year).Title-Italicised Retrieved Month Day, Year from URL.
Note: Title appears at the top of the Web browser, in results of Searches by search engines, and in the source code of the document between the tags < ….. >
Terrass, R. (1998) Reference Desk: Finding Information on the Internet Retrieved November 18, 1999 from https://web.wn.net/~usr/ricter/web/find.html If no author for website, insert publisher.

Book without Author Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers.(5th ed.). (1996). or Editor listed Canberra, Aust:Australian Government Publishing Service
(A.G.P.S.).

Audiovisual recordings Learning Seed. (2000). Supermarket Persuasion: How Food is merchandised. USA: Learning Seed.

Computer programs Xyris Software (Australia). (1999). FoodWorks 2.0.Brisbane,
and data bases Australia: Author