Diet: The Pros And Cons Of My Diet

The purpose of writing this paper is to discuss the pros and cons of my diet. The nutritional analysis have thought me that my choices are not terrible but they are not the beast. However, a healthy lifestyle is necessary if I want to enjoy this life without health complications. Always Including some form of vegetable, fruits, and carbohydrates in my diet is ideal. However, that may not be on a regular basis and the portion might be too small to make a difference or too much to cause harm. I have learned how many grams of fat, saturated fat and protein should be consumed per day by my body.

A strength in my diet is that I incorporate an appropriate amount of protein in my meals. I do not have to worry about a lack of protein. This is a strength because according to Hoffman and Flavo, protein “Serve as the major structural component of muscle and other tissues in the body. They also produce hormones, enzymes and hemoglobin. Proteins can also be used as energy” (2004, para.3). Having protein in my diet helps with my growth and development. Another strength in my diet is that I always eat breakfast. O’Neil et al. (2014) showed “breakfast is the most important meal of the day… effect cognitive performance, feelings

I need to tell myself that those things are just wants and that they will not benefit me in the future. Another thing is to not place myself in situations where I am tempted to eat those products, when I go to the store, I can avoid the processed food sections and sweets. A dietary change would be buying fruits that have natural sugars, using honey or molasses to bake my cookies of shortbread. Instead of eating frosted flakes, I can eat corn flakes or raisin bran cereal. If I do decide that I want to eat sweets I can make sure that the grams of sugar is less than five