Health Claim Assignment 1

Health Claim Assignment #1

Finding a Health Claim

For our term paper, we will be looking at various health claims and the studies that have been done to prove or disprove the health claims.  

What is a Health Claim? A health claim is a statement that claims something about your health. For example: “Cheerios decrease total blood cholesterol” or “Colgate Total whitens teeth and prevent cavities."

Over the course of the term, you will be analyzing a current health claim within a journal. You will choose a health claim that has been tested by scientists, critique the research done by scientists, research a little bit about the health claim on your own, and then compile your work into a research paper. 

Your assignment is to find a newspaper or magazine article that discusses a study of a health claim. You must make sure the article answers the following questions: 

· What is the health claim?

· Who conducted the study?

· What was the sample size?

· Who was the claim tested on? (Females, males, certain age group, etc.)

· What was the experimental group and what was the control group?

· What did the researchers measure?

· What are the reasons given for the results of the health claim?

· Cite your article correctly using MLA format. 

If your article does not answer all of these questions, you will need to find another article. 

Some good places to find articles: 

www.sciencedaily.com

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html 

www.medicalnewstoday.com 

For Assignment #1, Please find an article and answer the questions on the following page. Each question is worth 1 point each.

1. What is the health claim? Please include the URL of your article here as well.

2. Who conducted the study?

3. What was the sample size?

4. Who was the claim tested on?

5. What was the experimental group?

6. What was the control group?

7. What did the researcher measure?

8. What were the outcomes of the research?

9. What are the reasons given for the results of the health claim?

10. Cite your newspaper article in MLA style correctly.