College Student Diet Analysis

My calorie intake overall was quite high equaling three thousand, two hundred and seven. My recommended intake was two thousand, four hundred and five. This wouldn’t be as much of an issue if I was getting adequate exercise to burn the excess calories and the calories I was consuming were equal to the calories I was burning. I had a recommended amount of two thousand, four hundred and five and an average intake of three thousand, two hundred and seven. My average expenditure was one thousand, seven hundred and fifty three and my average net gain was one thousand

Based on a 24 Hour Recall of my diet, results using NutriCalc Plus report that my food intake lacked a healthy balance of all food groups. My Grain intake reached only 60% of the My Plate daily recommendations. My Vegetable intake was a mere 50% of the recommended servings. Additionally, I consumed 84% of the daily recommendations for the Dairy Group. Nonetheless, I did exceed the recommendations for the Fruit Group and Protein Group with intakes of 155% and 107%, respectively.

According to my three day diet analysis it seems like my eating habits are poor. Not necessarily that I am consuming too many bad foods but I am not getting the all around nutrients that I need on a daily basis. Sometimes not eating enough. Or ot finding time to eat at all is a big issue in this. Due to my job and the lack of time I have at home it is hard for me to get the nutrients I need on a daily basis. With the target that is shown of six oz. of grains two and a half cups of vegetables, two cups of fruits, two cups of dairy and five and a half oz. of protein foods I fell short in most of the areas that were targeted for me. My biggest two areas of consumption was refined grains and protein.

Although the DRI has not determined a set value for fat intake, my intake of fat is high. A major problem with my current fat intake is that it is rich in

When the two days were averaged, it about equaled out. I decided that Day 1 was actually better because it wasn’t too high in fats and cholesterol and I was only lacking in a few areas which I could easily improve on by adding more nutrient-dense foods like fruits and vegetables. However, Day 2 was high in a lot of areas which could lead to over nutrition and toxicity symptoms. I think the best would be somewhere in the middle of the two days.

The purpose of this assignment is to increase self-awareness of the student by analyzing personal nutritional intake and activity routine throughout the course. In turn, the student will be able to help others modify their diet and activity, and improve overall wellness. An examination of a personal food and activity assessment will provide the student with essential data from which to change their health and wellness behaviors.

The University of a Florida offers meal plans for students who wish to have a meal ready for them rather than worrying about what they are going to eat, or perhaps cook, throughout the day. The problem with this idea however, is that students oftentimes do not take full advantage of this system. Whether it is cooking, eating out, or even going home on the weekends, there are several factors that can get in the way of taking full advantage of the meal plan. This dilemma often leaves families asking the same question: is buying the meal plan that is provided by colleges actually worth the money? While buying a meal plan for college appears to make sense for many incoming freshmen, it does not always translate into the most efficient use of

Protein is responsible 18% of my calories, where fats make up 35% and carbohydrates are 47%. To better evenly distribute my calories, I can lower my fat intake by about 10% to be in the range of 20-25%. By doing so I would decrease the amount of fat I eat by about 25-26 grams which make about 25% of my calories from fat. With the decrease of those calories, I could increase my carbohydrate intake by about 57-58 grams, this would leave me at the same caloric intake. By increasing the amount of carbohydrates consumed by 57 grams this would raise the percentage that carbohydrates are adding to my calories by 10% putting my total percent to 57%. This would be more in the middle of the AMDR, which is 45-65% of my total calories. While looking at the break down of my fat intake, it shows that my percent of unsaturated to saturated fats is almost equal with saturated fats being 40%, and a combination of all the unsaturated fats equalling to 37%. From the bar chart I already recognized that my saturated fat intake is higher than it should be, and evidence from this report only backs up this fact. Optimally I would like to have my unsaturated fats be higher than my saturated fats. However, within unsaturated fats, I would like to change the ratio of mono and poly unsaturated fats. The change I would like to see would be a lowering the amount of mono and increasing the amounts of poly unsaturated that I consume. From the bar report as well my results showed

The three-day diet analysis was interesting. There were many positive attributes to it and definitely negative ones. Over the course of the three days, which were Friday, Saturday and Sunday: and figured this would give a good depiction of what I was consuming on a regular basis. In some places I was consuming more than I should be and in some I was consuming less than I should be. There were also those places were I was getting just the right amount. It is so interesting to me to be able to find out what I am consuming and how I am consuming it. Being an active male, it was most interesting of what I ate, what my average of the three days were, and the plan on how I would correct the way I eat to make it a more healthier lifestyle.

Growing up I have always given my dad a hard time for his weight until about four years ago when he pulled out his wedding tux and I tried it on and could not fit in it. I am currently six foot four inches and weight approximately one hundred and fifty pounds so you can share my amazement when I found out that I couldn’t fit into my two hundred and fifty pound father’s tux. My dad got married when he was twenty two and I just turned twenty two, so I believe that it is about time to start being more a wear of what I eat. Being that I am currently underweight, I haven’t had to discipline myself when it comes to eating too much. My

If your intake was above recommendations, what changes can you make in your food choices to become more in line with recommendations? My

After looking at my reports on the Diet Analysis program, I determined that my intake of potassium was not optimal, it was in fact very, very low. Per the Intake vs Goals report, I averaged about 27% (1262.15 mg/4700 mg) of the recommended amount (4700 mg) of potassium across the three days I recorded my diet. When looking further in depth at the spreadsheets, my potassium intake was calculated as the following: 2122.35 mg on day one, 1497.85 mg on day 2, and 166.24 mg on day 3. Clearly, I am not meeting the necessary amounts I need to be taking in; when averaging the three values I am not even half way .

Students that are coming into college fear the freshman 15. College life increases amounts of responsibilities. When given these overwhelming responsibilities other basic needs such as sleep and health start to deteriorate. Lack of time management leaves little time or energy to worry about the nutritional value every time stressed students reach for a snack. Each person has his or her own weakness either eating due to stress, boredom, or social eating. Sometimes the student can restrict him or herself from eating junk food, but his or her meals are consumed late at night before bed, so the consequence of weight gain is the same. The freedom of college brings power to these young adults as well as many frequent mistakes. College students should be more conscious of their eating habits in order to set healthful lifestyles for their futures, and combat the freshman 15.

For three days I tracked all of my meals, snacks and fluid intake on the SuperTracker website. The purpose of this was to determine and understand what I was eating and how what I put into my body directly effects it. Too little or too much of certain nutrients can be harmful over time and the SuperTracker helped to determine which nutrients I needed less or more of. Also, it provided me with some insight on how I can change my eating habits to provide my body with the nourishment that it needs. There were similarities amongst my daily food group targets for all three days. My consumption of grains was below the target for two of the three days, along with my dairy intake. Also, I did not have fruit of any kind during that time period. Nevertheless, my ingestion of vegetables and proteins were continuously above the recommended target amount.

On the day that I tracked my nutritional intake, I had eaten an average of 1,731 calories, which is 269 calories short of my recommended target of 2,000 calories per day. About 26% of my caloric intake was coming from my total fat intake – 8% of that coming from saturated fats. A few of my nutritional challenges included the fact that I ate little to no veggies throughout the day. That is something that I have struggled with for most of my life, and I hope to change. I also noticed that I was low on a number of vitamins, such as vitamin C, D, E, K, and choline. Nevertheless, in terms of physical activity, I consider myself to be a rather active and functioning person. Although my schedule is rather busy and full, I make sure to always make time in my week for exercise. I normally go to the YMCA about four times a week, and I also attend an aerobic walking class two times a week. My Fitbit Activity Tracker allows me to monitor my physical activity to make sure that I am moving throughout the day. On a typical day, I make sure to take at least 10,000 steps, which is the recommended amount according to my Fitbit. I may consider logging my activity and nutritional intake more often in order to improve my overall status. I believe that by doing so, I will be able to monitor my intake and make changes based off of what I am not getting enough of or what I am taking too much of. In addition, it would mean a lot to me if my partner