Qualitative Assessment of your food diary (15 points)
· Trends: What patterns of intake did you discover? What are the impacts of habit, comfort, association, media, and preference?
· Environmental Factors: What role did economic, lifestyle, availability, and people have on your food intake?
· Culture: How does your culture affect your food choices? Which of the foods that you eat have a strong cultural component? Do these foods have a greater effect on the macronutrients or micronutrients?
Quantitative Assessment of your food diary(80 points)
· Acomparison of your carbohydrate, fat and protein intake (macronutrients) to recommended amounts. Use values from your printouts and tables. To support your statements, go back to your food intake and determine what foods provide these macronutrients.
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· Please make sure to answer the following questions for each macronutrient:
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· What is your DRI for this nutrient?
· What was your average intake?
· What percentage of the DRI did you consume (on average)?
· Do you need to increase or decrease your consumption?
· What types of foods is this nutrient found in?
· What does this nutrient do in the body/what processes are they involved in?
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· An evaluation of your caloric intake to recommended amounts.
Use values
from your printouts and tables.
· An evaluation of your fiber intake to recommended amounts.
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· Please make sure to answer the following questions:
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· What is your DRI for this nutrient?
· What was your average intake?
· What are the 2 types of fiber?
· Do you need to increase or decrease your consumption?
· What types of foods is this nutrient found in?
· What does each type of fiber do in the body (hint: 2 types)?
· Evaluationof your intake of vitamins and minerals. The ones to include in this section are listed in the grade sheet below.
· Include specific information from your dietary analyses including the percentage of recommended intake. Use the
reports to support your observations.
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· Example: To increase mycarbohydrate intake, I could eat more breads, milk or fruits. Most of my
current carbohydrates are breads. My average vitamin C intake was 73%, but
ranged from 4%-226%. By eating more fruit, I would improve both carbohydrate
and vitamin C intake. Most days my calcium intake was around 60%, but two high
intake days brought my average up to 93%. Drinking milk more consistently would
improve both carbohydrates and calcium.
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· Please make sure to answer the following questions for each vitamin and mineral.
Include a heading for each vitamin/mineral.
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· What is your RDA or AI for this nutrient?
· What was your average intake?
· What percent of the RDA or AI did you consume?
· Do you need to increase or decrease your consumption?
· What are the toxicity
and
deficiency diseases (or symptoms) associated with this nutrient?
· What types of foods is this nutrient found in?
· What does this nutrient do in the body/what processes are they involved in?
· Do not copy and paste your table from the previous assignment. The information will not be counted in the grade if it is copied and pasted. Your assignment should be written in paragraph form.
Plans for Improvement(15 points)
· Suggest ways to improve (or maintain) your macronutrient, vitamins, minerals and kcal intakes.
· List foods that you are willing and able to eat to accomplish those goals.
Works Cited (10 points)
When submitting, you can either copy your summary into the submission box or attach as a WORD document. Any other type of document submitted will result in a zero on the assignment
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