For 7 day I had to log all my food intake as well as my activities. It was interesting to see it broke down into so many different groups, which was a bit of an eye opener. It compared Average Intake vs. Recommended Intake. It also looked at the Oil and Empty calories, MyPlate, and Carbohydrates. I went to eatright.org and found an article on Processed Foods: What’s OK, What to Avoid, because so much of our food is processed anymore it is hard to stay away from it.
In the report my actual calories were a bit higher than what was recommended, and my weight stayed the same. The percentage was at 107%, and that I ate over my daily recommended amount of calories. My actual calories were over, and I stayed to same weight from when I started this report. The errors that might have accrued for me is not measuring my foods, and some of the foods were not in the MyDietAnalys.com database. With this error my calorie intake might have been a little higher the reported.
In the oils & empty calories showed the recommended that I “limit my extra fats & sugars to 132 Calories.” (Janice Thompson, 2015) My biggest downfall is desserts, because most nights before bed I like a dessert, and this is usually some kind of sugary item. This is an area I need to really work on, because the older I get the more it will start affecting my health. For the three foods that on my 7-day report that could be changed to healthier options are frosted mini wheat, popcorn, and cookies. The cereal could be changed to oatmeal with blueberries, the cookies could be changed to fruit, and the popcorn just needs to be homemade instead of store bought. The popcorn is not that unhealthy of a snack it just needs to be air popped, made with olive oil, and sea salt.
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The article that I read on “Processed Foods: What’s OK, What to Avoid” say “It’s blamed for our nation’s obesity epidemic, high blood pressure and the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes.” (Jill Kohn, 2015) It also says that it is surprising to “learn that whole-wheat, homemade soup a chopped apple are also processed foods.” (Jill Kohn, 2015) Even some of the conveniences we have could be considered processed like our bagged spinach or even the roast nuts. The conveniences that are not so good are like canned fruits, vegetables, because of the sugar or sodium that is in them.
When going over the 7-day report it was interesting on what the actual over the recommended showed. It shows some areas that I really need to work on, like changing up the carbohydrates, and make some better fiber choices.
In recent studies, it was discovered that most of the foods that Americans consumed are foods which had gone through so many processes and thereby losing most of its nutritional values. Unhealthy nutrients are also been added to foods as additive during production to either preserve flavor or enhance its taste and appearance. An individual cannot simply trust what he or she is consuming at a fast food restaurant or even a cheap prepared meal at a grocery store. Processed food or western diet needs to be replaced and totally taken out of the American life and diet; this will help the Americans to live a healthier life, and spend less on medical bills.
The problematic aspect of processed food is all the added hormones, preservatives, and antibiotics that are injected into the food. Organic foods have none of these additives, and the pure characteristic of organic food is a valuable thing. Pollan (2008) agrees with this when he writes, “instead of worrying about nutrients, we should simply avoid any food that has been processed to such an extent that it is more the product of industry than of nature” (p. 424). I have a medical condition in which I am not supposed to eat any foods that have added preservatives, hormones, or antibiotics. This is because my body is hypersensitive to chemicals and, especially, added hormones. It can easily cause serious health problems. Pollan (2008) also added an opinion made by a food politics and policy lecturer, Gyorgy Scrinis, who believes that, “the most important fact about any food is not its nutrient content but its degree of processing” (p. 423). If everyone would stop their constant consideration in nutrient content and turn their attention to additives; America could become a much healthier
The dietary goal for total fat intake is 20 to 35% of total calories. How did your fat intake compare to the stated goal? (6 pts.)
I plan to make some modifications to my current diet in order to reach my goal weight. My task will be strictly sticking to the Meal Plan A on the Super Tracker website. I will have to closely monitor my portion sizes. This will insure that I don’t go under my target daily food groups or exceed these target foods.
Overall, I am pleased with the changes that I have made to my diet, and plan to continue working towards my goals. In order to accomplish my goals in the future, I will try to slowly increase my fruit, vegetable, and whole grain consumption. Another goal that I need to work on is to slowly limit the amount of meat products that I consume. Incorporating these changes will help me accomplish my goals of increasing my calories and decreasing my protein intake to the recommended values set by the Dietary Reference intakes. As long as I can continue to practice these healthier ways of eating, I am sure to have a longer and healthier life and decrease my risk of chronic diseases as I age.
For my diet analysis I am not proud to explain the foods I have been consuming by what I have learned so far this year within this class. With all the fast foods and fatty foods that I am trying to convert into energy that I need for my body to work to its fullest. The problem is that with the bad decisions of a fast food product that is just processed animal parts that are contaminated with different preserved liquids and fluids the companies inject to the animal that allows it to grow faster, but not so healthy as fast food companies project. On Monday consuming 1852 calories, for breakfast I ate a egg, cheese and bacon sandwich. Two hamburgers from McDonalds for lunch and two tacos from Taco Bell. For Monday I went over on my limit
Processed food is a “balance of nutrients and ingredients”, however, not all of it is bad for you since they 're convenient but they “can mean large amounts of hidden sodium, fats, and sugar” and unprocessed food is the complete opposite. On a different note, genetically modified foods, also known as GMOs, “are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering”. In a different circumstance, organic foods are foods that are organically grown food from local farms; it is also known as “the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic
The 3-day diet analysis was an opportunity to better understand my eating habits and track my daily dietary reference intakes in Kilocalories, Carbohydrate, Fat, Cholesterol, Dietary Fiber, etc. My goal was to include meals that are part of my regular diet and determine how healthy my diet actually is based on the type and quantity of food I eat. This process can help me understand how my diet choices can affect my health and increase the risk of certain diseases, and consequently improve my diet to eat healthier food. My personal DRI report shows a BMI of 22.3 based on my height and weight, which is within the healthy BMI range of 18.5-24.9 for an adult. This fact shows that I’m not overweight; however, my overall report indicates that
Food has been a common source of necessity in our everyday lives as humans. It helps gives us nutrition and energy to live throughout our life. Over several decades, the development of making foods has evolved. They have changed from natural to processed foods in recent years. Nowadays natural ingredients are barely used in the making of foods like bread, cheese, or yogurt. The food industry today has replaced natural food making with inorganic ingredients. The cause of this switch is due to processed foods being easier, cheaper and faster to make. Artificial nutrition and processed foods have been proven to last longer in market shelves then natural foods. Also, due to artificial additives in processed foods they help satisfy consumers taste more than natural ingredients. The method of producing processed foods is common in today's food industry and helps make money faster and efficiently for companies. Examples of this can be found in all markets that distribute food. Even though processed foods may be easier and faster to make, they are nowhere near as healthy for consumers compared to natural foods. Natural foods are healthier, wholesome, and beneficial to the human body and planet then processed foods.
For changing my diet, I could eat fruits and eat healthy crunchy snacks instead of eating cookies for snacks. I would eat snacks once a day. Having fruits I like such as strawberries and apple slices as snacks would be a healthier option. Instead of munching on chips and cookies, I could eat crunchy food such as cashews, veggie chips, trail mix, and baked chips. At restaurants, I can choose the salad option instead of the soup because there are more vegetables in
To accomplish such a goal, I plan on specifically focusing upon increasing my daily calorie count by consuming the appropriate amount of foods from each of the five major food groups. Targeting the lack of dairy in my diet is one of the major concerns when it comes to improving my overall diet. To increase the amount of nutrients that I can gain from consuming foods from this food group, I plan on making daily efforts to incorporate servings of fat-free milk, calcium-fortified soymilk and natural cheeses into my meals. Likewise, to increase my daily servings of refined grains in my diet I will focus upon replacing grains made of white bread with whole-wheat bread and swapping my sugary breakfast waffles for low sugar, high fiber cereal and oatmeal. Due to my lack of protein in my daily diet, consuming lean protein meats, such as chicken and fish, as well as including beans into my meals would significantly improve my protein intake and provide such necessary nutrients derived from this source. Using my plate as a reference during both lunch and dinner meals would help to increase and improve the consistency of the amount of vegetables and whole fruit I consumed on a daily basis. In addition, limiting my intake of foods containing high sodium and saturated fats by carefully reading food labels would easily remedy my overconsumption of sodium and
There are numerous ways to maintain a healthy life style, and this is just one of them. Keeping a food diary has been most beneficial and allowed me to see my need for more proteins and realize that carbohydrates are something that I need to continue to watch. I am going to be trying to watch the amount that I eat and what I am putting into my body, so that I can live a healthy life.
Obesity has been one of the major problems in the United States. One of the ways that we can decrease this rising problem is to get people to monitor what they eat. This will allow them to see categories they are doing good in and categories that need improvement in their diet. This is something that I did for three days in one week and will now go ahead and analyze the most important factors to a diet and how to improve them. Based on the data above it looks like that I’m maintaining my calorie intake on the base of a 2200 calorie diet per day. I’m consuming just the right amount of calories from protein, but I’m a little over on the consumption of calories from fat. Saturated fat is also a category that I’m over in by about five percent.
Processed Foods Are Often High in Trans Fats or Processed Vegetable Oils. The fact throughout each of the 9 facts of how unhealthy processed foods are is the addiction leading to the emotional state being affected by what is put into the food. There are several flavor enhancers, chemicals, and hormones inserted into the foods and animals that we eat in the present such as monosodium glutamate and genetically modified organisms that are affecting the mind day by day. Those hormones are triggering the brain to think a certain way after eating a significant amount of food especially if it was all processed. My topic is solely based on the Health and Food Industry. I am certainly focused on making people aware of what the food industry as well as the government and what they allow people to eat and drink regardless of how toxic it is for the body. “How junk food wrecks your body” by Alexandra Sifferlin is discussing how junk food is totally bad for your body and what it does to your body overtime. It’s not a shocking realization that junk food is low in healthy nutrients and high in sugar and sodium. Animal research was conducted that I don’t support but did a study on rats with junk food. The experimental physiology study journal suggested that a diet with mainly junk food harms the kidneys as it would if you had type 2 diabetes. In the study the rats were given a junk food diet of marshmallows. Biscuits, cheese, and chocolate bars for eight weeks. The study was extremely small and used rats rather than people, so the results can't be mainly about humans or harm the humans. Dr. David Katz says “Animal studies provide insights about potential effects in people, but they rarely provide definitive answers”. Dr. David Katz was not involved in the
To start, when I first started this course, I had no idea it would change the way I eat so differently. This course has taught me that we need to truly focus what we put into our body to make it healthier within time. In the begin of the course, I did many log in’s on iProfile. I needed to recorded what I have eat in that past week and input the data into iProfile. To do this, I had to search each food or drink I consumed and add it to that login each day. Going into the assignment, I was on a diet so I thought I was eating well. I was shocked with the results that processed.