As food plays a big part of my life, I often wonder about the process it goes through in my body. It would be cool to find out about what affects absorption of nutrients in the body from foods. A couple of factors I thought would be relevant is speed of eating, dispersion and density of eating and mixtures of different food types. Of course it is possible that these would not affect nutrient absorption but if they are they might be important in advising those wanting to improve their diets or tailor them to their needs.
An idea of investigating these would be to use a radioactive tracer built into certain food types to measure their absorption with varying factors. A radioactive material with 2 days or less half life should be used and gamma radiation to minimise ionisation damage and to maximise ease of detection. Obviously the same people will need to be used for different conditions as there are so many extraneous variables. Percentage change of absorption should be used as the presented data. My hypothesis would be that absorption would increase with an increase or dispersion of meal times and variety of food and with a decrease in speed and density of eating.
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