Diet Habits Essay

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Step 1 Describe your dietary habits (see assignment #1 from PHAS 5009) and discuss how those habits may be influencing your risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, osteoporosis, etc. On a typical day I have a smoothie and coffee for breakfast, sautéed vegetables for lunch, and tortillas and lentils or pizza for dinner. My snacks consist of cheese and crackers, and occasionally I will have some cereal. Last semester, I completed a dietary log and I realized that I consistently had an increased amount of refined grains and met my fruits requirement. I learned that I needed to incorporate more vegetables, dairy and protein into my diet. I improved my diet by making smoothies for breakfast, which contains …show more content…

and describe how they may be influencing your risk for chronic diseases. My personal habits include drinking maybe once a month or every other month. It consists of have two to three standard eight-ounce mixed drinks. I do not feel this influences my risk for chronic disease by much. Although, if I were to drink on a daily/more frequent basis my risk for getting hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, cirrhosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and many others would significantly increase. Stage 4 Discuss your current health status, including any chronic diseases or serious medical conditions that you already have such as high blood, diabetes, etc. and discuss how this may influence your risk for developing chronic diseases in the future. Currently I have not been diagnosed with any chronic diseases. The only problem I have is that I wear corrective lenses for far vision. Step 5 Collect as much information as you can on the history of chronic diseases on both sides of your family going back as least as far as your grandparents and preferably your great grandparents. Discuss how the presence or absence of certain chronic diseases in you family history influences your risk for these

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