Please somebody help me?

Question

i have to do a science experiment for a science fair...

i dont know if its possible but i was kind of wanting to do something that would involve me being a vegetarian for a certain amount of time...

the reason for that is because i want to try being a vegetarian but my mom wouldnt let me unless there was a reason behind it...

please help me think of a experiment or if you cant think of any then just any good original experiment...

thanks

Answer 1

Have a start and an end date. Visit vegetarian websites for recipes, and copy some down to include with your report, the more interesting ones the better.

You need to compare and contrast. Eat a diet rich in protein, low in carbs, and very low in vegetables for say, 2 weeks. Then switch, eat a diet rich in fiber, vegetables, and some fruits, again low carbs.

Record how you feel, how it affects exercise, daily routine, sleep patterns, energy levels.

Drink plenty of water during all of this. Record your data, weigh yourself before meat (high protein) diet and before veg/fruit diet..

You should weigh the same before each diet to have the same starting point. Then see what happens.  

Answer 2

What do you think of this:

Go get some vegetable seeds. Something easy like green pepper plants or green bean plants....you decide, but have it be something that is natural to the area you live in. but something easy....not great big pumpkins of some gargantuan viney plant...know what I mean?

Get a good sampling say 6 plants per row and have 5 rows....you'll see why in a minute.

What you should do is keep all these plants in the same area (you may not be able to do this experiment if you don't have the room to do it, and if you don't do it CORRECTLY, then please don't do it!

Make sure all the plants get the same amount of sunlight and when you water them, they get exactly the same amount of water, and always water them from the same container. Keep everything EXACTLY the same.....

....BUT....here's what you do.

When you water them, use the following water.

1)  use regular cold tap water.

2)  water that has been microwaved.

3)  rain water

4)  water that has been boiled

5)  spring water from the store

You can get some plastic jugs to keep a day or two's worth of this water in, so you can prepare it a little ahead of time. It's a bit of work to do this, but the idea is to see what, if any effect the different kinds of water has on the growth and health of the plants. Hopefully if you have at least 6 plants in each row any individuals that die can be attributed to a poor plant and not the water, but if they all die then something is up....understand.

This isn't a fancy experiment, but it IS an interesting one, but you need to be on top of it tho, and do it correctly otherwise it's a waste of time and the results will be worthless.

If this strikes you as a good one, then give it a go. Whatever you do tho I wish you luck, but most of all....learning.

Answer 3

To make this a true science experiment you would like to be measuring something that is not in any way subject to your subjective evaluation. When you introduce things like how you feel, a very subjective topic, that is questionable science.

You might evaluate your level of vitamin B12 before and after a period of living vegetarian. Now, from historic evidence you would know that vegetarian diets do typically leave one short of B12.

So, you may wish to evaluate those changes that vegans adopt to try to maintain B12 levels. We know that some who do not treat this religiously will simply use an injection derived from meat. But I hope you would know that would be bad science too.

Some have assumed that probiotics, yogurts, will maintain B12.

This would work for a vegetarian if it works, but not for a vegan.

So, while you can get all the protein you need from vegetables, can you find a way to maintain all Vitamins needed?

Some vegetarians have difficulty maintaining cholesterol (HDL) levels. Can you do it? Now this is not a consistent problem, because HDL is mostly produced by your liver.  So checking to see that you are maintaining HDL  would be to confirm that you as an individual do produce enough from your own liver.