A Well Dinner At The Family Table

The purpose of this assignment is to track and display the food choices we make and the way we eat affects our lifestyle and health. This paper addresses my personal food intake for the past three days. Next I will compare my food choices with my WileyPlus profile and determine whether I am maintaining healthy eating habits. There are foods that a person can eat in order to make sure that the daily required intake is being made. Sometimes it is really hard for a person like me to make sure I eat all the foods that I am supposed to so that I can consume all the nutrients that my body needs in a day. I know I will need to modify my eating

People’s ability to assess certain courses of action brings about two distinct paths: it either hinders the person’s ability to gauge their surroundings or it enables them to see and act based on a completely new perspective. It is our seemingly competent nature, as generalists, that has led to the rise of the phenomenon known as the “national eating disorder.” Skewing food culture and trend patterns, we have come to trust in our natural aptitude for survival as a way to pave our way through sustaining nourishment while coming into terms with the opportunity costs that accompany all of our decisions. There is something about food that grabs people; it is the individual tastes and textures, the unique stories of each and every ingredient that is used to make food, and the smell of spices that brings familiarity that

I took this opportunity to understand my unhealthy habits and transform my behavior. In my Wellness Recovery Action Plan, the information brought light to the obstacles and how to overcome issues. After filling out the Schedule of Recent Experience (Wieitan et al., 2009) and Tactics for Coping with Stress (Weitian et al., 2009), it was a shock how much I put my body through. A finalized copy of my results can be observed in Appendix A, and the results of the Schedule of Recent Experience (Weitian et al., 2009) can be viewed in Appendix B. In the outcome, I conducted coping mechanisms such as therapy, exercise, and nutrition. Nutrition has been a challenge as a waitress and full-time student. I am always around food at work that led to overeating.

Obesity is a common problem found across all demographics in the U.S., and is increasingly more prevalent amongst college age students. The “Freshman 15” is a real phenomenon that many young people face in their first year of independence from their homes. Students have their first experiences in choosing meals for themselves. One of the main reasons why college students put on this added weight when they leave home is the selection provided by their universities dining center. A quick glance at NDSU’s dining menus allows one to see that the deserts are what headline the menu, with the entrée options listed towards the bottom, as can be seen in FIGURE 1. This menu design influences the choices of the students; it subconsciously encourages

The myth indicates that first-year college students either gain fifteen pound from eating unhealthy or lose fifteen pounds due to not eating during their first years in college. We are all encouraged to take health class in college and learn about nutrients, but we can barely apply our knowledge to campus food. Cal Poly Pomona provides various options for food around campus, but not every dining space is healthy. As diligent students around campus, I believe the campus should improve its dining options. The common phrase: “You are what you eat” is highly emphasized in health class. I suggest the replacement of Round Table Pizza with healthier local restaurants that will serve students. Our campus does not serve fish to its students, but fish is high in Omega-3 fatty acids which boost body and brain functions. As students visually see the implementation of healthy food alternatives on campus, they will apply the knowledge from health class upon their diets. In health class, we were instructed to track our diets with the MyPlate. Through my food tracking on the website, I learned what food groups I was overeating and others that I was under eating. This website mapped out my goals for dairy, fruits, vegetables, carbohydrates, calories and sugars intakes which enabled me to visualize my diet. I would suggest that Cal Poly Pomona offers the MyPlate as an option for students to do over a quarter of 0.5 units so students

I insist on maintaining a healthy palate, thus I scarcely touched my meal. As my extended family became aware of my lackluster enthusiasm for dinner, they began to address their unwarranted concerns to my parents. This feeling of unease around others at mealtime did not cease there. In fact, almost every gathering – whether it was between my family, classmates, or soccer team – struck me with this similar discomfort. My parents grew wary, and I was even approached by a teammate who asked if I had an eating disorder. This dismayed me; I started to question my own dietary habits and felt alienated at every meal. From that climax, I realized I needed to make a change.

From logging my food on myfitnesspal for five consecutive days, I have concluded heaps of information about not only my eating and lifestyle habits, but also the habits of our society. During the time period that I have logged my food for each meal, I have been very busy. Something that I concluded from this process though, is that the days that I was less busy I ate much healthier than the days that I was overly busy. I do think that it is extremely important to understand what exactly you are putting in your body and how this affects your body. By logging my food, I had the opportunity to really learn and understand these things. Collecting this data really affects health and medicine for many reasons. For instance, it seemed like the days that I ate a little bit healthier or exercised, not only was my health was better but I felt better. The days that I did not eat healthy whatsoever my attitude tended to be more negative. Since I recorded my food for five days, I have concluded that due to our fast paced society, fast, easy, and unhealthy food is what we turn to. We all claim to care about our health so much, but the majority of our society is letting our fast paced lives get in the way of healthy eating habits and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The purpose

The podcast, “Stuffed”, states that eating is mindless. In other words, we tend to eat with our eyes not our stomach when it comes to multitasking. Combining eating with multitasking leads us to overeat because of two reasons: first, we do not pay attention to what to eat and secondly, we eat to the pace of what we are doing. I strongly agree that the environment in which I eat, affects my diet in terms of amount eaten. Majority of the meals I eat are in front of the television and the snacks I consume are during study sessions. Therefore, I am unaware of the amount of food I am consuming. As well, it also takes 20 minutes for your body to send signals to your brain saying that you are full. Unless I am in a social environment, such as a restaurant, I never take more than 20 minutes to finish meals (Eisen, 2015). I understand that the time period and the settings in which I eat, negatively impacts my eating

Food is a substance that humans eat in order to perform basic everyday functions. Accord to the author of Fat is a family affair, Judi Hollis;” America’s “drug” of choice is food” (25). The sugar from a soda pop or the crunches from potato chips drive anyone to drink or eat it. After a while our wants for a soda pop or chips develop into needs on a daily basis. The six needs to recovering from an obsessive eating is appreciation, approaching the new, relaxation, habit, sexuality, competition, and coping. Judi Hollis expresses appreciate as an important need for recovery.

As a married woman, in her mid-thirties, I am a non-traditional college student. This awards me privileges most traditional students are not allowed. For example, my husband and I rent a house that has a fully working kitchen brimming with useful amenities. This provides numerous opportunities to control what I eat on a daily basis, so long as I am motivated and plan ahead. Unfortunately, countless individuals and families do not have the luxury of an operational kitchen, a necessity to eat healthy in modern society. Moreover, eating a whole food, plant-based diet, void of animal products of any kind, is troublesome even in my fortunate situation. Alas, the benefits far outweigh the struggles, so it is essential I continue living this uncommon

At the age of fourteen, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) which is an imbalance of reproductive hormones, in short. PCOS makes it very difficult to use insulin to convert carbohydrates into energy. A common characteristic of PCOS is obesity. Even then, eight years ago, I knew I needed to maintain of lifestyle of healthy eating and daily physical activity. But, during a self-assessment period, I realized I would eat unhealthy meals multiple times per week. My choices were your typical “hot and ready” meals, fast-food items, or just unhealthy snacks supplemented for lunch or dinner. With the stresses of school and work, quick-grabs were very convenient and oddly satisfying. These environments not only limited physical activity, but required prolonged sitting. Consequently, a lifestyle of inactivity resulted. I knew that too much stress, too much eating, and not enough exercise would soon lead to a sedentary lifestyle, but I did not have the discipline, interest, or time to make the necessary changes. I thought I reached the point of no return when I began eating just because I had access to it or in response to stress. Guilty and ashamed, I realized I was not eating because I was hungry, but because of stress and availability. Overtime, I recognized I

When I was younger, I couldn’t eat much, not that my stomach couldn’t bear it, but I wasn’t aloud too. I only remember the same boring food, spaghetti with garlic bread, and the milk that could wait to be sucked down, or oven chicken, with the same teriyaki taste that overpowered the chicken. The chicken was often eaten with corn and mashed potatoes. Dinner was always unbearable because I would always be the last one at the table, picking at my corn and dipping the tip of my fork into the runny mashed potatoes. I never ate much, but now, I eat allot. My mom says I eat enough for two grown men, and I now eat more than my 18 year old brother. I can put down a 4x4 from In and Out Burger and a taco right after. My goal is to be able to eat a

During my three-day observation, I noticed that I consumed foods that were above the limit intake. There were days where I ate a lot of foods and other days were I did not consume enough nutrients. During my time at work, I noticed that I skip meals. I skip meals because I feel that I consume a lot of calories when I eat an item from Taco Bell. I believe this because my family says that eating too much food from fast food restaurants is bad for ones health. Also, I noticed that I get fully satisfied when I eat breakfast. When this happens, I tend to skip meals, such as, lunch. Skipping meals is not a healthy choice and I plan to improve this by eating my meals, even if I am not hungry. Consuming food is better than not eating at

     Since we have been learning about nutrition in class, our task was to record a food log. Nutrition requires a well-balanced diet containing nutrient and vitamins like amino acids and fatty acids. Over the past seven days I have been recording and have been looking very carefully at my intake of nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and fats. In our task, the objective was to record the basic foods we ate during the period of seven, but it did not require recording every single detail or our intake of food. Doing this food log was a pain and it was disturbing because I never wrote about what I ate like breakfast, lunch, dinner, or additional meals. I found this food log useful because it helped me learn what I

Eating behaviour is a complex behaviour that involves a vast array of factors which has a great impact on the way we choose our meals. Food choice, like an other behaviour, is influenced by several interrelated factors. While hunger seems to drive our ways of food consumption, there are things outside of our own bodies that influence our food choices and the way in which we eat. The way we eat is controlled by and is a reflection of our society and cultures. I explore this idea through a food diary I created over a few weeks and the observations made by several anthropologists that I have studied.