...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison Healthy Eating Plan Comparison Eating healthy is one of the most important acts a person can do to enhance their chances of a long and healthy life. It is also important to mixes a good diet with daily exercise. Learning about your body and its specific nutrient needs will help you achieve the best balance between a healthy exercise and nutrient intake routine. This class has opened my eyes to just how important eating healthy foods and exercising on a regular base can be to maintain a good quality of life. The class also explained how nutrients work with other chemicals to create the perfect balanced digestive system, energy, and body muscle tone. In this assignment I took the healthy eating plan for a second time and compared it with the assignment in week 2, and to be perfectly honest it was probably not necessary due to the fact I did not change any of my eating habits. This is not because I live a life with a great exercise routine and a perfect diet, it is because for fifty years I have eaten and maintained the same type of energy level. Although my energy level is far above the recommended requirements, my eating habits are somewhat sub-par. This is not to say I do not eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner on regular bases, it’s just the quaintly and the rich in fat foods I chose to eat. When comparing week two healthy eating plan to week seven the changes where none, I find it very difficult to change eating habits after spending...
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...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison Jane Doe Sunday, March 20, 2011 SCI241 Professor Mickey Mouse Abstract This document will provide an outline of the change in nutritional habits for the duration of SCI241 - Nutrition course study. This document will also provide the change in diet and the awareness of making food choices. Healthy Eating Plan Comparison For the duration of this class and teenage years I have been considered obese. Nutrition has never been a part of my life nor has it had any importance to my eating habits. This class along with strong encouragement from friends and family I have decided to try a better way of eating. During week one through week four of class I was still in denial about my weight and my eating choices. As the class progressed and my comprehension for what promotes healthy eating changed. I discovered a greater way of life through low-impact exercises and healthy food choices. Eating healthy has always displayed images in my head of meals consisting of mostly vegetables, salads, no bread, no potatoes, and small portions of everything. Although the mentioned items could help with weight management; they are not the ingredients to a healthy way of living or eating. Current Eating Habits Over the past seven weeks I have encouraged myself to look at food in a totally different light. Vegetables and fruits are my friends and all oils, unsaturated fats, refined sugars, to include processed meats and dinners have been eliminated...
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...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison Healthy Eating Plan Comparison A new home, major renovations, and health challenges have made cooking and eating at home more of a challenge then ever. To avoid too much take-out, I have been eating dinner at my mother’s house, and bringing easy to fix ingredients to work, which I can store in a work fridge for the time being. Since I am working full-time, a full-time student, and now live in a home that is under construction, I have to be more conscience about abusing convenient fast food and take-out options. This course has made me a much more conscientious eater, but I still have room for improvement. I believe that I eat less take-out now, and I have been avoiding the donuts and bagels often brought in by coworkers. Currently, I am trying to eat healthier and incorporate more activity into my day because of recent health issues. I know now, more then ever, that what we eat affects us in more ways then we think. A healthy and balanced life consists of balance in all areas, especially when nurturing our bodies. The digestive system and our choices do make a difference; even in health areas we may think are not related to what we eat. My Current Eating Habits After completing the Food Diary Checkpoint for a second time, I realize I still have room for improvement, but I have followed through on many of my plans from the Healthy Eating Plan assignment...
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...John Reid Writing 150 February 2016 The Unstable Food Pyramid In the seventh grade I took a cooking class where I learned basic recipes and life skills. In this class I had my first introduction to the food pyramid made by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1992 (Godoy). I spent hours memorizing the ins and outs of a pyramid that was supposed to guide my dietary habits and ultimately lead me to a healthy lifestyle. This life tool (known as the food pyramid) showed me how many servings of grains, fruit, vegetables, meat, milk, and sugars I should consume daily. Even now I know that I am supposed to eat oils, sweets, and fats sparingly, and have three to five servings of vegetables each day. A year after engraining these numbers into my brain, I learned that all of my studying was in vain. During my eighth grade year the USDA introduced a new online program called MyPyramid. That program was only used for five years, and in 2010 (before I had even graduated from high school) the USDA slightly modified their food patterns. This is when the new MyPyramid was shaped into the newer and “better” MyPlate. My mind was bewildered as to how there could be so much change in an area that should have remained constant throughout one’s life. I began to wonder to myself “Are the current guides actually helping us, and should we be following them?” In order for the food guides to help us they should be more focused on three things: scientific basis, consistency, and personalization...
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...Executive Summary According to Srinivasan, R. (2008), The American Marketing Association defines International Marketing as the multinational process of planning and executing concepts to create exchanges that satisfy organizational and individual needs. It involves organizations operating on a global scale, serving clients in different countries with a variety of products customized to meet their needs in regards to their culture and preferences. BurgerLite Inc. is fast food Company designed to serve customers that are looking for healthy food options. It offers a healthy solution that match people’s busy days and their awareness of the benefits of eating healthy. Going international is a big challenge because the Company doesn’t only have profit goals, BurgetLite’s culture and philosophy is to operate its business while improving and providing wellness and healthiness to society. A number of factors were taken into consideration when selecting the most convenient market, selecting Japan as the country that fit best the company’s philosophy and goals. This paper seeks to outline the preliminary criteria that were used to eliminate countries, the indicators used to evaluate the investment environment of the country as well as the decision and motivation towards the choice that was made. This report gathers an analysis of economic and social factors that we believe suit BurgetLite Inc. into the Japanese market. Moreover, important information about the actual marketing plan...
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...Today’s Media Influence on Body Image The media today comes in many forms. For example, we have magazines, newspapers, television, radio, and the internet. Having all these elements at one’s disposal is a great asset, but it can also be a manipulator that could blindside consumers. The media has shaped society’s idea of what perfect is and it has definitely changed our idea of what perfect looks like. Exposure to thin female models and muscular built males on a daily basis has created an entirely new culture for the new generations. Having a perfect body not only means being healthy and achieving the perfect physical imagine. Now it also means power, fame, money and most of all attention. Today media has a negative influence on our body image. Body image is not only about how a person physically looks but also how the individual feels about himself. How society presents not only a perfect body but a healthy one, the ideals have tremendously changed in the past decade. Now we are being forced to meet unrealistic body types and looks in order to fit in and love ourselves. The media exposes super model images on television, ads, magazines and even the radio making us believe these deceptive images. According to article Food and Body Image, in a 1992 article in the Journal of Communication, it was estimated that on average adolescents see more than 5,260 “attractiveness messages” each year. And according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) fact sheet “Tool...
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...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison Vivian Elliott Sci 241 07-15-2012 Mrs. Mary Martin Abstract Healthy Eating Plan Comparison In my comparison from my nutritional habits from week one, my eating habits have changed in a much better way from my past usual way of eating and regular daily eating plan. I have developed an eating plan based on the concepts of balance, variety, nutrients density, moderation and energy density. I follow and use the Food Guide Pyramid and list of nutrients in my diet plan. The Food Guide Pyramid is a menu plan tool that tells about what’s on a nutrition label currently consists of, and when and which health claims are allowed on a food package. I try not to eat too much hamburgers, french fries, cookies, sodas, pizzas, cakes, tacos, and other greasy fried fatting foods. Since I have changed my eating habits I have lost 15 pounds and watch the fat melt from my body and performing more lean on my body. It is very important for people to understand the nutritional effects and good requirements of a human body. The changes that I made to my diet and eating lifestyle are important for me to improve my diet by 100% as I stick to my diet to improve my health and wellness of my overall well-being. I am experiencing an increased of nutritional needs and better benefit to my health, probable a more leaner body, weight loss, and likely improvements to your blood profile. This all adds up and will equal to me having and enhances a longer healthy...
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...street shop, next to Wal-Mart and college. The cartoon on the right was posted by cartoon artist Piraro on August 10, 2010. The cartoonist's opinion is ironic because pigeons will get fat by eating fast food just like people. By depicting McDonalds, fries and the pigeon's lazy eyes are related and pointed out the author's feeling about the combination of fat and bad health because of fast food. In the cartoon, the pigeon represent the people who are fat, lazy and don't want to move at all, but keep eating fries. The big M behind the pigeon stands for the popular fast food brand McDonalds. The sky is a mixture of white and grey, except for the yellow from the M. Anything else is less vibrant, less vivid and dispirited. The rhetorical appeals in Figure 1 include logos and ethos. The pigeon keep eating fries and other fast food that make him fat, which is logos. Also, the pigeon stays in front of the fast food place which is well known for selling high calorie food which is a ironic use of ethos. There is a normal pigeon in the image who is actually warning the fat one, so the audience for this cartoon might be the people who don't know or care the side effects of fast food; who choose to eat fast food very often and more than homemade meals and who actually like eating fast food. If...
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...Persuasion is often achieved using various persuasive strategies. Socially-oriented persuasive strategies competition, social comparison, and cooperation are the most widely and frequently employed strategies both in persuasive health technologies and other online support interventions because of their ability to leverage the power of social influence to motivate behaviour change. Socially-driven persuasive technologies are persuasive technologies that employ the socially-oriented strategies competition, social comparison, and cooperation to motivate behaviour change. Studies have shown that these socially-driven persuasive technologies can be effective for motivating desirable health behaviour change. As a result, researchers have applied socially-driven persuasive technologies for motivating behaviour change across several health domains including binge drinking prevention [32, 33, 40], drug and substance use prevention, HIV and STDs prevention and treatment [7], smoking cessation [22, 63], being physically active [45, 69] and healthy eating [35, 49, 54]. It has also been applied in the area of disease management including in teaching skills for self-management of type 1 diabetes [8] and asthma...
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...Food. Over the years people have become very lazy. Instead of making the nutritional homemade meals, they have been getting fast food. That is fine every now and then but, not every day. Eating fast food every day is very bad the body. Fast food may be cheaper but, a home cooked meal is healthier for you. Too much fast food can lead to health problems, a higher calorie intake, and weight gain. Eating fast food every single day is not a good thing. There are many reasons to not eat fast food every day. One is too much fast food will lead to health problems. It is very bad for your body secondly. Fast food as of now is all over the world in most of the countries in the world. With so many fast food chains and restaurants it is no wonder why people are having so many health problems and becoming obese. If you have time to go through a drive thru window, than you can make a home cooked meal. When you go to a fast food place you are not just paying for the food. If you think about it, you are paying for the supplies and the employees working there too. Fast food meal prices are absolutely ridiculous. It would be better for you and your wallet to eat a healthy, home cooked meal at home. With eating too much fast food there are a lot of health problems. The health problems that go along with eating too much fast food are endless. You can get diabetes, cancer, arthritis, reproductive complications and even premature death. Your arteries can also clog and lead to heart attacks as well...
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...and children don't have time to learn about healthy choices on their lunch period or even have enough time to socialize while taking a brain break. Their choices are healthier, but not always appetizing and tasteful. For example, my four year old son Hayden says" I can't always get my food packages open in enough time to finish all of my lunch." He is often very hungry after pre kindergarten when I pick him up, his teacher Ms. Ennis said today after school "he is probably starving the poor thing didn't like any of the cafeteria choices and didn't eat lunch today he didn't care for the raw carrots." She named the several choices many including raw vegetables and bread that he has an allergy...
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... Stedmen WRIT. 121-20154 14 March 2015 The Benefits Of Eating A Healthy Balanced Diet Living a healthy, happy, productive life is a growing concern among Americans today; both young and old alike. According to the Medical News Today, the top three leading causes of death among Americans are heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (Medical News Today: Saturday April 15, 2006) Sadly, the cause, prevention and cure for cancer remains largely unknown. However, the first and third of these fatal diseases are both highly preventable. The roots of this prevention stem from making knowledgeable, health conscientious choices about the foods we consume on a daily basis. A twenty three year study was conducted by the World Health Organization from 1990 – 2013. The study suggests that by the year 2020, the heart disease and stroke mortality rate will enhance by a rate of 78% in woman and as much as 106% in men. The same study also concludes that by adhering to a “Mediterranean” diet, increasing ones intake of anti-oxidants, vitamins, potassium, and calcium, the probability of falling victim to these devastating diseases can be greatly reduced. Clearly a dedicated effort put forth to eating well promotes numerous advantages. Advantages which include a stronger, healthier heart, a more toxin free body, and a better functioning immune system; ultimately resulting in a longer and happier life! First and foremost, eating a healthy balanced diet promotes heart health and is key to protecting...
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...Case Study 4 McDonalds 1) How should Mac respond when ads promoting healthy lifestyle featuring Ronald McDonald are equated with Joe Camel and Cig ads? Should Mac eliminate Ronald McDonald in its ads? I do not believe it is necessary to eliminate Ronald McDonald as the mascot. The comparison to Joe Camel is rather unfair. Although McDonalds uses Ronald to market its unhealthily to children, it is not the same as smoking and getting addicted to cigarettes (Adage.com, 2016). McDonalds should used Ron’s image in a different way, promoting healthy food and activity, less focus on the food even and focus on charitable work. Ronald is among top 25 mascots of all times. (DailyFinance.com, 2016) Ronald McDonalds should make visits to schools to educate students about the importance of eating healthy and staying active. Even addressing moderation of unhealthy foods and portions control. This will help to improve Ronald image in a positive way as the mascot. 2) Discuss the merits of the law proposed by France that would require fast-food companies either to add a health message to commercials or to pay 1.5 % tax on their ad budget. Propose a strategy for McDonald's to pay the tax or add health message and defend your recommendation. The French law will force food marketers to choose between adding a health message to commercials and paying a 1.5 percent tax on their ad budgets to fund healthy-eating messages. (Adage.com, 2016) Other bans may also be placed on using celebrities...
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...Eating healthy to curb Global warming DeVry University Eating healthy to curb Global warming Global warming is a phenomenon which is affecting our life (lives?) in more ways than one. Over the past few years, its effects have become more noticeable. Climatic changes have caused some major natural disasters in the past few years and humans have played a pivotal role in the accelerating the warming of the planet. Many animal species have become extinct in the past century due to climate change. Some of the major reasons are rapid industrialization throughout the world in the past century, rapid depletion of forests and the extensive use of fossil fuels which have increased the carbon content in the air. In this article, we will look as it is not an article, choose a smoother way to introduce your thesis. at how healthy eating practices can curb global warming. Proper farming, local distribution of food products and cutting down on meat and fish consumption can drastically reduce the carbon footprint of a community. Good thesis. Today, farming has taken on a global scale. Food items produced in one corner of the world is sent for consumption to the other end in a matter of days using various forms of transportation. The demand for global cuisines and products which are not grown locally has increased a lot word choice – keep your diction formal due to globalization and change in lifestyle and eating habits throughout the world. Food processing involves a massive amount of...
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...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison By Ronald Taylor University of Phoenix Nutrition is a very important part of life. Eating healthy requires that we change some of our current nutritional habits. Since week one, there have been a few minor changes in nutritional habits. For instance, now milk is more a part of the diet than before and grains have also seen an increase in the diet. In the first Food Diary Checkpoint, there was only a 0.1 cup of milk daily intake, while in the second Food Diary Checkpoint revealed that now there is an average intake of 1.5 cups of milk. Also, because of the incorporation of oatmeal into my diet there has been an increase in fiber. However, most of the results from the second Food Diary Checkpoint show that my diet basically consists of most of the same foods as before, foods that are low in nutrient density. For instance, in the 1st Food Diary Checkpoint, the diet still includes 2 waffles for breakfast instead of cereal. As aforementioned, oatmeal is now a part of my breakfast, but most foods in my diet have remained unchanged. Therefore, the results of the diet still compared quite poorly to the recommendations received from the Food Guide Pyramid. Moreover, for some food groups there were still less than 1% of the servings recommended. The totals indicated that there is an unsatisfactory consumption of the foods recommended by the Food Guide Pyramid. Primarily, there still needs to be an increase in milk intake and an increase...
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