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Part Two: (50 points)
Using the food logs and nutricalc reports:
Discuss micronutrients and fluids (non-energy nutrients, water, vitamins, minerals). First, look at vitamin and mineral intakes and for each one, compare your intake with the RDA and identify if you are low, meet or exceed the recommendation. Make a table and include this in your written report – this will help you know which vitamins and minerals that you do need to discuss).
1. Discuss EACH vitamin or mineral that is deficient (any that are less than 90% of needs). For each nutrition that needs discussion:
What health concerns could be associated with low levels of that vitamin or mineral? Note that being low for 3 days does not mean that there will be overt deficiency diseases. However, you should be aware of negative health impacts of low intakes
What would you have to eat to increase intake of that vitamin or mineral (good food sources)?
Discuss any that are above 120% of recommended:
Do you have any concerns about high intakes of any micronutrients (any that are above 120%)? Do any exceed Upper Tolerable Limit?
Additionally discuss:
Do you need a multivitamin supplement? Defend your answer.
Remember you were not to include a vitamin or mineral supplement in your analysis, this is so you can now determine if you would need to start, continue taking one or potentially stop it. Would a supplement increase risk of toxicity for any nutrients?
2. Water and fluids
Discuss your intake of water – how did your intake compare to goal? Do you think the fluid requirement estimated by the software is accurate for your needs? If so, how does it differ?
What foods and beverages in your diet contributed to fluid?
Would any beverages be considered sugary sweetened beverages? Why is this important to consider?
How about caffeinated beverages? How often do you consume these? Why should someone consider caffeine in their fluid consumption?
Do you consume energy drinks? What is the impact of such products in the diet?
Do you consume electrolyte (i.e.. Gatorade or others similar) containing beverages regularly?
3. Next: Discuss energy and weight.
Your diet analysis will be an estimate of how many calories you ate. Your diet analysis profile will estimate how many calories you need to maintain current weight. Get another estimate of calorie needs from here: http://www.cancer.org/healthy/toolsandcalculators/calculators/app/calorie-counter-calculator
What did you learn about your calorie intake? How are the estimates of needs and the estimate of your intake the same or different? How many calories to you need a day? How many do you eat? Does your calorie intake meet or exceed your needs? Why or why not? If the amounts are very different, explain how these numbers could be different.
Is your weight stable? If you determined that your calorie needs are more or less calories than you eat and your weight is stable – how do you explain why you are not gaining or losing? You need to be logical here. There may be a number of errors in both assessment of need and intake.
What is your BMI? What is your risk for disease based on your BMI?
Are there other factors that should be included with BMI to assess your risk of disease related to body weight?
Do you need to maintain, gain or lose weight in order to achieve a BMI in a low risk category? If weight change is needed to improve health, briefly outline several things you might to do try to achieve a healthy BMI range.
4. FINALLY – summarize and plan
Consider your findings in Part 1 and Part 2.
Summary: Write a brief summary of the positive and negative aspects of your diet and then make a detailed plan to improve your diet. Consider the information you now have (nutrient analysis, myplate, diet guidelines, etc) and devise a detailed plan that would improve your diet. Include at least 4 SPECIFIC things. You need to make the case of what you found in your diet and a specific plan to address those findings.
Plan: Detail what you would DO – make it clear what you would DO at the grocery store, while cooking, at the table, what you carry snacks, etc.
Not acceptable: “My diet is horrible and I will start reading food labels.”
Good Example: “I found out that I am very low in vitamin D and calcium. I have decided that I will eat more yogurt. I will make sure I buy yogurt that is fortified with vitamin D. I have an insulated container and I will carry yogurt in my backpack and have it for my afternoon snack Monday through Thursdays at school.”
Diet Analysis Part 2
Posted on: Monday, April 9, 2018 4:31:03 PM EDT
This is lengthy but please read through to the bottom!!
REGARDING PART 2 OF MYPLATE:
This assignment is due next week. The drop box will be available from Fri, April 13th, through 11:59pm Mon, April 16th.
I’d like to give everyone a few tips to get maximum points:
1-Follow the instructions IN ORDER as they are written. A well-organized paper is easier for me to grade. I should not have to hunt around for your answer to each of the questions.
2- Do not skip any questions . Every single question that is listed should have an answer. In grading Part 1 of this assignment, students lost more points from neglecting to answer questions than from giving the wrong answer.
3-When discussing your vitamins and minerals, refer to the Bar Graph and discuss EACH vitamin and mineral that was <90%. You must also discuss EACH vitamin and mineral that was >120%. You should make a table to keep this organized. Here is an example of what your table might look like (feel free to copy and paste these tables into your paper, or you can make your own):
4-When discussing your energy intake and weight, keep in mind that your report gives an estimate of the calories you need (based on height, weight, gender, activity level) and also your average intake per day based on your 3 day food logs. For some people, there is a big difference between these 2 numbers. Keep this difference in mind when discussing whether your weight is stable or you’re losing/gaining. This takes some critical thinking. You won’t find this answer in the book. FOR EXAMPLE, if your estimated needs are 2800 cal/day and your 3 day average intake is 1500 cal/day and you say you are maintaining your current weight, then you have to explain this difference. How can you eat 1300 cal/day less than what is recommended and still maintain your weight? This example might not apply to everyone but it will certainly apply to many of you.
5-When writing your goals, be SPECIFIC. Think of SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Timed. You will not receive credit for “I will eat more vegetables and fruit.” You will receive full credit for “I will eat 1 banana, apple, orange, or pear every weekday for breakfast.” Be sure to address the deficit in your diet that you are trying to correct with each of your goals. Also be sure to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your diet.
6-Be sure to upload the Food logs, Bar Graph, and Calorie Assessment along with your paper. I realize you already did this for Part 1, but please do it again for Part 2. Again, these should be in pdf format and your paper would be in Word.
7- I want everyone to review the comments I made on Part 1. There may be information in there that will be helpful for you as you complete Part 2
To Submit Part 2:
Upload assignment on due date. From Part 1 – upload food logs, Bar Graph and Calorie Assessment report from the average of your 3 days (check to make sure it is the average) and your written report.
Part two is 50 points and is graded using this rubric
Discussion of micronutrients and fluids………………………………….15
vitamins (5 points)
minerals (5 points)
water (2 points)
need for supplement (2 points)
1 point for correct table of vitamins and minerals
2 Discussion of energy. …………………………….. 15 points
your estimated needs and your estimated intake; (5 points)
energy balance and your body weight (6 points)
calculation and discussion of BMI (4 points)
3 Summary of diet positives and areas that need improvement……5 points
Review your assessment of parts 1 and 2 and write a clear summarization of the important findings. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your diet in meeting the recommendations for a health promoting diet?
Detailed plan to improve ………………12 points
Need to use the analysis to plan specific changes in behaviors and food intake that would improve diet. (4 at 3 points each)
Grammar, spelling, etc. and reports. (3 points)
Please note that I will be unable to grade your paper unless you attach the correct reports. Papers without the correct reports will earn a 0.
Total 100 for both parts of project
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