Tracking My Eating Habits

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.

According to my calculations, I have a BMI of 27.6 which puts me in the category of being overweight. A person my age and height should have and ideal weight ranging from 160lbs to 175lbs. Many risk factors that are associated with being overweight includes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, osteoarthritis, and sleep apnea. I consider myself a healthy overweight person because BMI cannot dictated everyone healthy state such as body builders; I perform similar workouts to body builders so I am at my BMI goal.

Improving the health conditions of the American population ensures the increased quality of life. People eat for various reasons with the fundamental reason being for survival purposes. However, the issue of eating to live and living to eat affects people in different manners as most people develop poor eating habits that affect the body’s nutritional intake and affects their health. Being healthy involves careful considerations of what one is eating and engaging in activities that contribute to better healthy lives that do not imply daily prescriptions or

The purpose of this paper is to analyze my personal dietary intake as a way of better understanding the ways in which the foods I consumer are helping or hurting my overall nutrition and health. This project is about understanding how consuming too much or too little of particular nutrients can be unhealthy and do harm to one 's body over time. Even more, this project is about dispelling some of the myths that are present about nutrient consumption in order to have a more scientific understanding of what is considered healthy in food and nutrient consumption.

This assignment and the first 4 units of this course will assist me in becoming a healthier person not only personally but also professionally. I have struggled with my diet the past few years, either consuming to much or to little, ultimately eating not very healthy. My goal is to eat from each food group the best I can and to eat the portion sizes that is needed for my body. I am going to try and change my eating habits to create more positive choices for myself. Taking care of myself inside will help in the workforce mentally and physically but also help with my knowledge about healthy eating, I’ll be able to share and teach by example.

A goal of mine is to modify how much processed food I eat because I want to live a healthier lifestyle. In, “Eating Made Simple” by Marion Nestle she discusses ideas on how to become healthier. Nestle notes, “eat less, move more; eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; and avoid too much junk food” (37). Nestle argues that experts disagree on most notions concerning what is healthy and what is not. Nevertheless, they all came to an agreement in the basic idea of healthy eating. This suggests that living a healthier lifestyle could be rather simple if you follow these simple steps. My family and I eat an enormous amount of junk food, and I would like to change that so we can live a healthier lifestyle.

When I look at food, I don’t recognize it as food. I see sugar—in the form of carbohydrates—sketched on a multidimensional graph with fat, proteins, serving sizes, exercise, and sickness every day.

As obesity and medical problems due to diet become a larger issue within society, it is imperative to educate humans on the importance of maintaining a healthy diet. This is exactly what Hungry for Change does. One of the key points made in the

I decided to analyze the heath documentary, Hungry for Change. There are two reasons why I chose this particular documentary, which are, my education and health, and my family’s health. Personally, I am very interested in nutrition, health, and overall well-being. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I began to make better food choices and do moderate exercises. Now that I am in college, where I’m forced to make my own food, I’ve grown to love cooking and eating with organic and whole food. While I am in college, where there is daily access to a gym, I have all the reasons to be healthy and fit. To be a little serious about my health decisions, I decided to take a Nutrition course this semester to enhance my understanding about the

In order to familiarize myself with my eating habits, I have analyzed my diet for seven days. By listing the ingredients in each food item, I have discovered that most of my meals are not nutritious. To understand my recommended daily nutrient needs, I used Canada’s Food Guide to assess my intake. I also listened to “Stuffed” Part One and Two, to help me identify some common dietary issues for Americans. The podcasts shed light on the causes of obesity. From this assignment, I have learned that it is essential to closely monitor what and in which amounts I eat in order to maintain my health.

When I moved out of my home and began purchasing my own food, I was given the opportunity to have more power over the food that I consumed. Maintaining a healthy diet became an important aspect of my life and I started researching ways to achieve a healthy diet. Prior to taking Food in American Culture, I thought that I was well informed on the foods I was putting in my body. However, taking this course has been an eye opening experience and I have discovered that I had little and or incorrect knowledge on the foods that I was consuming.

The rise of health concerns continues to proliferate throughout the country from increasing obesity rates to the astonishing number of our population with high blood pressure or diabetes. It’s enough to make anyone want to second-guess everything they eat and put in into their bodies. We ask our doctor’s, and ourselves “what can be done?” Eat right, and exercise. Those are the parameters for maintaining a healthy life. So it’s only natural that across the board we’ve got numerous exercise programs to help you lose weight fast or build lean muscle. Then we’ve got every diet under the sun, the no carb diet, high protein diet and all juice diets. Through research we can find and utilize programs and healthy habits that we can practice

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I am a MDC college student, and this spring semester, I was very interested in knowing more about health and fitness. So, I heard about the importance of doing a BMI test and I went to the wellness center of my college to do the test. I have never done this type of test before, and the experienced of having an idea of my health is a reason to motivate others to know their body mass composition in order to maintain muscle mass healthy. The results determine how well I am, according to BMI test I am a weight fair person and I have an idea of what is my lean (fat-free), a person’s body weight minus

Understanding our diet and nutritional needs can seem overwhelming and often times confusing. We find ourselves stressing about our growing waistline, but are we concerned about what is really important, our health? By tracking my food intake for three days and learning about nutrition through this class, I have gained a better understanding about what our bodies need, and why. As a mother struggling to lose weight after my second child, I decided to take on the low carb diet. I have lost a lot of weight so far, but have realized I need to make some changes to meet my nutritional needs. I have found some huge nutrition gaps