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HLTH 230 A3 Assignment 3: Diet Analysis ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to analyze your diet and make practical recommendations to improve someone's intake

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HLTH 230 A3 Assignment 3: Diet Analysis

ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to analyze your diet and make practical recommendations to improve someone's intake.

STEP 1

Keep a record of all foods and beverages (including water) that you consume for 3 consecutive days. You must include at least one weekend day (Saturday or Sunday).

Indicate the type of food eaten, how the food was prepared, any condiments or spreads added to the food, and the portion size.

You will use this information to pick the correct foods in the Diet & Wellness + program and to complete the Assignment Table in Step 3 below.

 

Sample Record:

Day 1: Thursday December 2, 2021

1 cup Brewed coffee with 10ml of 10% cream and 2 teaspoons of granulated white sugar (Breakfast)

1 medium granny smith apple (Breakfast)

1 oz marble cheese (35% m.f.) (Breakfast)

250 ml of 3.25% homogenized milk (11 am snack)

58 gram bag of salt and vinegar potato chips (11 am snack)

After you have tracked your food for 3 days, create a profile in Diet and Wellness Plus. Your profile will include your biological sex, height, weight, age and other details.

 

Alternatives to recording your own diet:

If you are not comfortable recording your own diet because of privacy or health reasons, please feel free to choose one of the following options instead:

You can record someone else's diet (ex. a friend or family member). You can also create the profile based on someone else if you wish. Even if the profile and diet are not you, the assignment should still be written as if it was you.

You can create the intake for three days as if someone were eating 3 meals per day and following Canada's Food Guide. You can also create the profile based on someone else or a fictional person if you wish. Even if the profile and diet are not you the assignment should still be written as if it was you.

You can create the intake for three days as if someone were eating 3 meals per day in fast food establishments or other restaurants. You can also create the profile based on someone else or a fictional person if you wish. Even if the profile and diet are not you the assignment should still be written as if it was you.

 

STEP 2: DATA ENTRY

Using the “Track Diet” feature of the program, enter the foods and beverages you consumed during the 3 days you tracked your meals. You are not required to track your activity.

Guidelines for Food Selection & Entry

Be very specific with your foods. If you had a hamburger with ketchup, pickles and lettuce?do not?pick “hamburger with ketchup, pickles and lettuce” from the program. You should choose “beef, ground, lean, broiled, well done” and the amount you had by weight or volume. Then you should pick the appropriate bun, 15ml of ketchup, etc. How hamburgers are prepared can vary widely from place to place so by entering the individual parts, you will end up with a food that more closely matches what you ate. If you had a “Big Mac” however, you would pick “McDonald’s Big Mac Hamburger” from the program because that would be the best match for what you ate.

If you ate a “cranberry muffin,” which is not in the program, it is fine to choose “cranberry orange muffin.” You are not required to list the individual ingredients in the muffin.

The key is to pick the item from the program that most closely matches what you ate.

Not all foods are going to be in the program. If the item is not in the program, it is your preference whether you pick an appropriate substitution or enter a “custom food.”

 

STEP 3: Assignment table, Reports and Response questions

Assignment Table

Create tables in Microsoft Word similar to the one below. You require 2 columns. In one column please list the foods you ate and in the other column, list the items as they were entered into the program. Both columns must include portions. (Try to be consistent with metric or imperial units but you will not be penalized for switching.) Provide enough details that someone else could enter the foods into the program based on your description.

In order to make the tables as readable as possible, create a new table for each day and separate your tables by meal -?You must submit these tables with your final assignment. EXAMPLE BELOW

 

What Was Eaten               What Was Entered into the Program

Day 1 – Weekday

LUNCH

HAM SANDWICH             

2 sliced light rye bread   Light rye bread - 2 slices

1 Kraft cheese slice         Kraft Singles Pasteurized American Cheese - 1 slice

Boston lettuce 1/4 cup  Boston lettuce 1/4 cup

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard                            French's Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon

3 slices light deli ham      Ham extra lean (approximately 5% fat) - 3 slices

500 ml 1% milk                   Low fat milk 1% 500 ml

Snack

1 apple Green apple - 1 item

250 ml 1% milk   Low fat milk 1% 250 ml

 

Report

Use the Reports feature of the program to create the following?report?and submit it with your assignment:

“3-Day Average”

 

Response Questions (10 marks)

Carefully review your intake of nutrients on the report. Select either sodium, fibre, zinc, or iron. You will need to justify whether your intake of the nutrient you have chosen is appropriate. How do you know if your intake is appropriate? Be sure you review the information in the textbook on RDA, AI, UL etc. You can choose any of the 4 nutrients listed so I suggest you choose the nutrient for which you can ?write the most detailed response.

FOR THIS PORTION, PLEASE WRITE A REPORT ON FIBRE

 

 

QUESTION 1

Clearly outline?whether or not your current intake?of the chosen nutrient is appropriate?compared to an appropriate standard. Explain why an appropriate intake of your chosen nutrient is important to your health (even if your intake was not appropriate). Be sure to discuss,?in detail,?the?health?benefits of an appropriate intake?of this nutrient?and the potential consequences of an inappropriate intake. Your answer should include the roles of the nutrient as well as explain potential consequences of deficiency and toxicity. Your information must be scientifically sound, appropriately referenced, and can be (but is not required to be) strengthened by including personal health info, family history etc. Be sure to support your answer using scientific journals. Please ensure you read about DRIs, AIs, RDAs and ULs carefully before selecting a mineral and answering this question.

Your entire answer for Question 1 should be written in paragraph form and should approach but not exceed 2 pages (1 inch margins all around, double spaced, 12 point font, Arial or Times New Roman font). This page limit includes citations but not the reference list at the end of the question.

Please note markers will not read past the page limit and will mark only what is within the page limit.

 

QUESTION 2

i) Pick 2 foods from your 3 days that you could substitute each food with a different food to significantly increase your calcium intake. These replacements need to be reasonable substitutions* and the substitutions must make a significant change to the amount of the nutrient in your diet.  In other words these changes need to increase calcium enough that you would recommend them to someone with a low calcium intake.  If you are a vegan or vegetarian you can choose an animal product for the purpose of the assignment. Be sure to provide details of the original food and the substitution and this must include the specific food, the portion and amount of the nutrient in both the original food and the substitution. Food labels, the Diet and Wellness program and other sources that are not scientific journals are appropriate for this question. (4 marks)

 

*Reasonable substitutions in this case mean ones you would actually make. For example, changing 250 ml of cola to a 6oz hamburger patty made with ground beef would not be reasonable. Changing 250 ml of puffed rice cereal to 250 ml of cream of wheat would be a reasonable change (assuming it was significantly higher in calcium). Adding a supplement is not appropriate for this question.

 

ii) Name 2 distinctly different groups of people who are at increased risk of a vitamin B12 deficiency and explain in detail why each of these groups are at a higher risk of deficiency. The textbook is an appropriate reference for this question but you can also use scientific journals. (4 marks)

 

Your answers must be in paragraphs (not point form or tables). Please answer i) and ii) separately but Question 2 as a whole cannot exceed 1 page (Arial or Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced, 1 inch margins). This page limit includes citations but not the reference list at the end of the question.

 

 

MARKING:

Documents to hand in: A, C, D  all together in one file (PDF is best) and B in a separate PDF.

Table comparing “what was eaten” to “program” - (Submit as Word doc or PDF)

Report - “3-Day Average” (submit as PDF) - 2 marks total for part A and B (table and report)

Question 1: Nutrient Intake (maximum 2 pages) – (Submit as Word doc or PDF)   - 10 marks

Question 2: Deficiency (maximum 1 page) - (Submit as Word doc or PDF) - 8 marks

 

REFERENCES

References should be listed after each question. The reference list at the end of each question is not counted in the page limit.

Questions 1 and 2 must contain in-text citations following the APA 7 style to indicate what information is from what reference along with a reference list. Your answer for Question 1 should be strongly supported with scientific journal articles. Cite any info taken from the textbook.

 References must be of high quality. Scientific journals are the highest quality references and should be used wherever possible to get the highest mark. I will allow the textbook and scientific validated websites like Health Canada and the World Health Organization. To get the best possible score, use peer reviewed journal articles rather than the aforementioned websites whenever possible. Blogs, course notes, newspapers, magazines and websites like Wikipedia, livesrong.com and authority nutrition are not acceptable sources.

 

SUBMISSION

All parts (A, C, D and references) must be submitted together in one word document or PDF, except the “3-day Average” Report, which should be submitted as a PDF.