Example world food and nutrition dissertation topic 2:

A Scandinavian diet for health: Can eating the traditional cuisine of Scandinavia improve the health of English males – a quantitative study.

A wide body of literature already exists relating to the supposed benefits of adopting a Mediterranean diet. This dissertation, in contrast, seeks to assess the benefits of adopting a more Scandinavian diet of pickled fish and vegetables over that usually enjoyed within the UK. Using 30 volunteers (all non-smokers and moderate drinkers aged between 30 and 40), this quantitative study asks the participants to adopt a Scandinavian diet for six weeks – to ensure consistency across the group a series of meals will be prepared for them and other recipe cards given. Asking participants to keep a Likert-based daily diary and thereafter to also to take part in more open ended qualitative face to face interviews, the data from this study will then be analysed and the results presented.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Kyr�, C., Skeie, G., Dragsted, L. O., Christensen, J., Overvad, K., Hallmans, G. and Olsen, A. (2011). Intake of whole grains in Scandinavia is associated with healthy lifestyle, socio-economic and dietary factors. Public Health Nutrition, 14(10), 1787.
• Roos, G., Lean, M. and Anderson, A. (2002). Dietary interventions in Finland, Norway and Sweden: Nutrition policies and strategies. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 15(2), pp. 99-110.
• Silventoinen, K. and Lahelma, E. (2002). Health inequalities by education and age in four Nordic countries, 1986 and 1994. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56(4), pp. 253-258.