Individual Check Point Understanding Food Labels
Lisa Bryant
SCI.241/Science of Nutrition
August 16, 2013
Glenn Johnson

My current eating habits are pretty simple. I have to always eat breakfast; I either eat a normal bowl size of raisin brain with about a cup of skim milk or stop by Burger King for two breakfast burritos with either tea or coffee. For lunch sometimes I either just snack around the office with popcorn or pretzels or whatever else my craving is for that day. However it’s usually something light, rather having something really heavy. Then for dinner I usually cook every night of the week which consists of one meat, vegetable, and a starch. When fixing my plate I usually get ½ a cup of each individual food. However even though I do place a little more than what I am supposed to eat on my plate, there are a lot of times where I don’t finish eating. I also have found myself not trying to eat any more food after I begin to feel full. When it came to the Super Tracker on what your body needs and then what they show what I had reordered, mine has been under on just about every single food group and nutrients. The refined grains are the only thing that was actually over that I had ate in those three days of my recording. As far as how many servings in each food group I ate in was also under as well. Grains in the three days I intake 6 ½ ounces, vegetables 2 ¼ cups, fruits I intake ½ cups, dairy was 1 ¼ cups, protein foods was 5 ounces, and oils I intake was 2 teaspoons. This assignment has showed me that a lot of my problems with other health issues I have could be coming from the fact I don’t consume all of the food groups. I am going to continue using the Super Tracker on a daily basis to try and even out my foods. I am going to look further into more nutrition labels and study more on what exactly and how