New Method for Calorie Estimation

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Seeing different ways to educate people on what and how much they are eating is always exciting, as these tips can help us in future practice, too.  I found an article here with a study that looked at a new way for clients to estimate calories in a meal on their own.  The study compared nutrition students and non-nutrition students, their scores on the EAT-26 to weed out outliers, and their anthropometrics as well as their ability to estimate the caloric load of a sample meal using the Think Aloud method.  This method includes talking outloud (verbally) the process of arriving to the total number of calories using perhaps portion sizes or the relative sizes of objects compared to serving sizes; this method is new to nutrition but could be useful in our field due to the thought processes behind eating, food selection, and other introspective behaviors.  The authors concluded that for counseling sessions with limited time, clients could benefit from the Think Aloud method.  

 --Christine P. --
Source:
Holmstrup, M. E., Stearns-Bruening, K., & Rozelle, J.  (2013).  Quantifying accurate calorie estimation using the “Think Aloud” method.  Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 45(1): 77-81.  doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2012.04.007 

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