Nutrition Assessment Nutrition

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For my nutrition tracker I entered in my diet for Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday. This works great because I am able to see what my normal diet looks like during a normal weekday as well as the weekend. I also entered in my daily fitness information for these days. This information is crucial to get an accurate assessment of my current health condition as well as being aware of my eating habits and fitness level. My food and calorie report was shocking to say the least. I knew going in that I was going to be very low on my intake of vegetables but little did I know how low I would be. For all the categories of vegetables I was under the target amount. During this three-day dietary analysis, I only consumed one plain salad of only lettuce. So …show more content…

Oils provide vitamin E and dairy products provide “protein, riboflavin, vitamin B12, calcium, potassium, and, when fortified, vitamin A and vitamin D.” (p. 40) An area I need to improve in is my intake of diary even though my intake was average I know I need to drink more milk. The last area is protein foods. Now my data for this was average, but it was impossible to know exactly what I was consuming at the café. Very little information is displayed so even though I ate grilled chicken breast I did not know what ingredients were used. So the data is not exact. Due to lack of choices in food due to forces outside of my control I was not able to eat many grilled meats or seafood. Protein foods provide your body with many different nutrients and in my opinion I only got a few of them. My physical activity level was higher than what I thought it would be. This is because I am involved in intramurals and beach volleyball really tests your body. Also going to the gym and walking as well as tracking my daily steps on my phone. This is something I have been doing for a while now and my average was about nine thousand steps a day. Which is great it puts me in the above normal

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