A Multiple Regression Project

TO MINIMIZE the risk of disease due to diet, a number of dietary recommendations have been made. The U.S. National Cancer Institute (1987) and Research Council (1989), for instance, suggest that no more than 30% of the calories we consume consist of fat, and that no more than 10% of the calories we consume consist of simple carbohydrates (sugars). What follows is a project which allows students to determine the above percentages for a given food item from a regression model which they build using food data that they collect. In the process of computing these percentages students are enlightened about misleading advertising claims on the labels of food products.