All volunteer participants will go through two sets of assessments. 1. Bioelectric Impedance Assessment (BIA) Technology to assess the entire body composition. 2. Nutritional genetic food marker profile to identify the lifestyle, and generate an automatic report for a personalized, specific, nutritional plan to address any issue of obesity. I facilitate and moderate the plan, based on the individual’s report generated by RX Predict. Dr. Gupta (photo, right) shows her undergraduate student researchers -- Edmond Kollie (left, behind Gupta), Vandelezza Hepburn, and Raymond Rolle – how a machine in her nutrigenomics lab works. (Photo below, Dr. Gupta checks the reading on a scale in the lab. The recruitment process is simple. We advertise via the media organs of Central State University’s Public Relations and Land-Grant Communications. Several community places, including churches and other centers are contacted for educating participants about how they can prevent chronic conditions of obesity and diabetes by simple lifestyle modifications.
SPECIFICALLY, WHAT METHODS ARE USED TO IDENTIFY OBESITY, OVERWEIGHT CONDITIONS, AND DIABETES IN OHIO?
HOW ARE YOU RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS FOR THE STUDY? ARE YOU STILL ACCEPTING PARTICIPANTS, AND IF SO, HOW CAN ONE GET ENROLLED?
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