...Adequate? Introduction Understanding our diet and nutritional needs can seem overwhelming and often times confusing. We find ourselves stressing about our growing waistline, but are we concerned about what is really important, our health? By tracking my food intake for three days and learning about nutrition through this class, I have gained a better understanding about what our bodies need, and why. As a mother struggling to lose weight after my second child, I decided to take on the low carb diet. I have lost a lot of weight so far, but have realized I need to make some changes to meet my nutritional needs. I have found some huge nutrition gaps that I need to fill to remain healthy and avoid any long term problems. My Diet I have been consuming a low carb diet for awhile now, which has caused a significant rise in my protein intake. The I Profile reports helped me understand what foods I am consuming, and into what classifications they fall. The proteins that I consumed during the three days were as follows: Omelet, egg and cheese Pork, shoulder Spinach salad with cheese or eggs Steamed Crab Steamed Shrimp Sausage Patty Philly Cheese Steak Hot Wings Link Sausage Roasted Chicken Cheddar Cheese The carbohydrates that I consumed during the three days were as follows: Salad Michelob Ultra The lipids that I consumed were as follows: 2 Eggs Pork shoulder Spinach salad with cheese or egg Avocado Steamed crab Steamed shrimp Sausage, pork...
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...Everyone receives nutrition in the goods they eat, but certain foods are not as nutritious as others or the right food is being eaten wrong causing it to be bad for your health. Examples of good nutrition are fruits and vegetables and sometimes even the good food can be made bad. Potatoes are a good vegetable but are sometimes made with extra ingredients making it known as a fatty food that is bad for your health. Summary of Article In a Los Angeles Times article there was a story of how potatoes are being accused of having a bad reputation for people’s health. Experts are defending the potato for getting a bad reputation but that is overstated because it is linked to frying. “Potatoes have taken a mashing lately, being blamed over others foods for peoples long- term weight gain and possibly being limited in favor of other vegetables for school lunches” (Kridel & April, 2011). The potato is actually the essential food that feeds people in developing countries but in the U.S. it is seen as a bad food because it is a fast food side dish with loads of butter, cheese, bacon bits, and sour cream with salt. Schools are changing their school lunch meals by limiting the amount of starchy vegetables which includes most of the potato dishes. Potatoes offer valuable nutrients if they are eaten with the skin but when they are deep friend and added with sat and ketchup it ends up being nothing but calories. Updates it is presenting The update that is being presented is that since people are...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Nutrition plays an important role in the present age of scientific investigation and discovery. Recent studies and discoveries in the field of nutrition have been considered among the greatest scientific achievements because of their far reaching effects on human progress and welfare. Credit is due to those investigators in the field of nutrition who made careful and painstaking studies which have given knowledge on how best to select, combine and prepare food to promote the health and efficiency of the individual The world’s demand for food is becoming greater than ever. The current world population of 8 billion needs new innovations to meet the growing challenges of the poor and hungry world. Over nutrition, obesity, and related diseases characteristic of the developed world, is becoming serious public health problems in countries with widespread food insecurity. Children suffering from under nutrition today could well be afflicted with chronic diseases of development as adults. The economic development that has led to improved food security and better health in some countries needs to be harnessed, while at the same time incentives to avert the adverse health effects of the nutrition transition need to be taken. The potential of novel foods to alleviate under nutrition is becoming more apparent. But they are unlikely to have a role in the prevention of diseases associated with over nutrition in developing countries, which use...
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...Personalized Nutrition and Exercise Plan Jessica Tesi University Of Phoenix This nutritional and exercise plan is mainly intended to focus on the issue that I have which is not getting enough calories and exercise throughout the day and week to help me lose and maintain a healthy lifestyle. According to the CDC based on my height and weight, my BMI IS 29.8, which indicates that I am overweight and am prone to serious health issues, such as diabetes. For my height of 5’7, a normal weight range would be from 118-159lbs (CDC.gov). I am currently at 190lbs. In order to lose, reach, and maintain a “healthy” weight and be within the correct BMI range, I must have a daily caloric limit of 2400 calories and do at least 300 minutes per week of vigorous intensity physical activity (supertracker.usda.gov), which is 60 minutes for a minimum of 5 days. This plan will incorporate eating and exercise recommendations that will change based on my change in nutritional needs, age, and seasons. Nutritional Goal is to consume 2400 calories a day within 3 main meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, with 2 smaller snacks, one in the mid morning and the other in the afternoon to help with weight lose and maintenance. This intake will contain 8oz of grains, 3 cups of vegetables, 2 cups of fruits, 3 cups of dairy and 6 ½oz of protein rich foods. Grains can consists of oatmeal, bagel, pancake, rice, and pasta. Vegetables like dark leafy greens (spinach), bright red and orange peppers...
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...required for a balanced, healthy diet, five of which are: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals. Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates is a micronutrient, alongside fat and protein which all provide us with energy quickly. A carbohydrate is a sugar and is composed of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. It helps digestion and provides energy. Carbohydrates are divided into 3 groups: starch, fibre and sugar, which all help digestion. Protein: Protein is found in foods such as eggs, meat, fish and cheese. A source of protein is formed when a group of amino acids are joined together in chains. Each chain is called a polypeptide, eight of them come from the different foods mentioned previously. In terms of its...
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...History is all around us we might just be missing it, after reading this article hopefully you may just understand that a little more. This article is about ancient Egypt Food and Drinks so, let’s get to it! In ancient Egypt there was a lot to eat. They rarely went hungry, and there food was pretty tasteful. Generally speaking, there was a lot of food and drink in Ancient Egypt. Food was roasted, boiled, fried, dried, baked and blended. The ancient egyptians ate green vegetables, lettuce, beans, nuts, peas, celery, onions, lentils, figs, dates, garlic, eggs, cheese, butter and much more. Ancient Egyptians had plenty of flavor to add to...
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...say that it has no real nutritional value, and disrupts children’s learning capabilities. They also say that junk food is a leading factor of childhood obesity. On the other hand, those who oppose removing junk food from public schools say that it eliminates sources of funding that the U.S. government doesn’t provide. They also say that it usurps the responsibility of parents, and violates the First Amendment. To overcome the obesity epidemic, and give the children the nutrition they need to learn and become productive citizens we need to remove junk food from public schools. Removing Junk Food from Public Schools For the first time, the United States (U.S.) government is proposing standards to ensure schools serve more nutritious foods, ultimately leading to a ban on serving or selling junk food. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is setting new rules requiring schools to sell items such as water, diet sodas, baked chips, and low-calorie sport drinks instead of junk food. Lunchrooms will also be required to replace fatty à la carte items like nachos and fried cheese sticks with healthier items like low-fat burgers, fruit cups, yogurt and healthier pizzas. While some schools in the U.S. have already made improvements to their menus, schools will be made to follow the fat, sugar, sodium, and calorie standards set by the USDA (Jalonick, 2013). Many agree that junk food should be removed from our schools because it has no real nutritional value. Others disagree...
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...Lashiconnah Hammer Mr. Israeli English 102 24 November 2013 Kraft Mac N’ Cheese Exploring a Problem Over the past decade, the amount of cancer patients has increased dramatically. The fight against cancer stays constant. There is no answer and no cure to the disease. It is looked at as an unreciprocated problem. Fortunately, scientists have the advance technology to trace a single cancerous cell in our tissue to the chemical compound infected by the cell. Tests have been conducted on food dye placed in our foods and the results were devastating. The FDA, Food and Drug Administration, in the U.S. have allowed these chemical compounds, yellow 5 and yellow 6, in iconic foods brands like Kraft Mac’ N’ Cheese. Many were dumbfounded that the U.S., openly knowing yellow 5 and 6 are known carcinogens, would allow it in our food products. Hundreds of families have come together to create a petition against Kraft’s and the FDA. Kraft’s or the FDA has yet to response to all these eager families affected by yellow 5 and 6. FDA is unwilling to cut regulations saying evidences cannot be pin pointed to causing cancer. Kraft’s continues to produce Mac N’ Cheese with the yellow food dye in the U.S. but has been restricted to allow the dye in there overseas product. I believe we deserves the same Kraft Mac N’ Cheese as produced overseas, containing no artificial food dye. Describe chemical—scientist analyst—To get a clear understanding of the molecule, we must break it down. The difference...
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...heart attack while weighing 300 pounds. He had 4-5 fast food meals a week in New York. He sued fast food restaurants, because he wasn’t warned their food was unhealthy. I think Caesar Barber should’ve known fast food is terrible to eat everyday. It’s as awful as eating a whole bowl of uncooked cookie dough. If you have ever been to a fast food place, they usually have a website. If you go on the website, you can see the nutritional value of the food they sell. I looked on Mcdonald’s website and their healthiest food was a side salad and apple slices. And those taste horrendous. Some restaurants even have the calorie count on the wall. If Caesar Barber even took the time to look at the wall, he might have seen that the food is atrocious. He was as blind as a 100 year old women when he was looking at the menu....
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...companies such as McDonalds® or Subway® have successfully advance their ideas of healthy foods in many of Americans. Yet all of these wealthy corporations, along with many other smaller companies, have many ways to sell their products. These methods could be underhanded loaded with jargon. Information of simple knowledge overfilled with confusing and sometimes random information that otherwise will be too insignificant for people to put an effort to learning about. There are also times where information is overly simplified and have no real background to make a worthy judgment. Amidst all of the fallacies in the fast food industry, there exist reliable sources of information. In recent years, there has been an increase of connecting ideas of the transformation of fasts foods. Although some arguments claim the reason is one clause over the other, some will divert and stray off topic. They exert random facts to either make the claim reasonable or by overflowing them with sources that seems reliable from authoritative figures. Rabin article “Proximity to Fast Food a Factor in Student Obesity” goes to say: Ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are a quarter of a mile or more away, according to a study of millions of schoolchildren by economists at the University of California and Columbia University. (Rabin) The basis of proximity and obesity are non sequitur ideas. The field of study was limited and...
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...eat healthy. We watch television and most of the time we see fast food commercial. Since we see these fast food commercials, we crave for it and we drive ourselves to the drive thru and buys are self meals. However, we tend to eat so much unhealthy food, most us tend not work out which leads us to have health problems. What foods have good or bad cholesterol in them? Foods high in good fats include vegetable oils (such as olive, canola, sunflower, soy, and corn), nuts, seeds, and fish. Foods high in bad fats include red meat, butter, cheese, and ice cream, as well as processed foods made with trans fat from partially hydrogenated oil. As we can see most fat may be bad for us, but there are fats that are good for us and have redeeming qualities. “Grain products and concentrated sugars were essentially absent human nutrition until the invention of agriculture.” David Ludwig said. Ludwig also stated that in lectures people do not talk about this being a cause in...
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...meat, starch, and vegetable, now in the 21th century individuals can eat a Special K cereal bar and breakfast is served. The way food is now prepared; there are so many additives and process methods that it is affecting humans physically, mentally, and economically. According to many diet specialist when food is processed the nutritional value depreciates while cooking, with the additional amount of sodium, and sugar these ready-to-eat foods can also mean fillers. Most frozen, canned or boxed foods contains high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, added colors, artificial flavors and unnatural sweeteners providing empty calories rather than energy. This all leads to physical health problems in our communities, these health problems range anywhere from obesity to diabetes to high blood pressure. The mental impact of this comes from the commercials that are shown on T.V. daily and throughout grocery stores, these commercials are played throughout stores now encouraging consumers to purchase the quick and easy meals that save time in the kitchen. So, now when families sit down to eat a home cooked meal, they are under the impression that the Kraft mac and cheese with ready to eat meat balls is a complete meal, no vegetables or bread included in the meal. According to mainlinehealth.org a person's food intake affects mood, behavior, and brain function. A hungry person may feel irritable and restless, whereas a person who has just eaten a meal may feel calm and satisfied. A sleepy person...
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...Health and Nutrition Worksheet Human Nutrition SCI/220 University of Phoenix Health and Nutrition Worksheet 1. What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? According to the Free Dictionary by Farlex, Nutrition is the process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues. Nutrition is also the science or study that deals with food and nourishment, especially in humans. As well as a good source of nourishment; food. Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? Being without an essential nutrient or not having as part of our regular diet is often linked to specific illnesses and chronic diseases. For example, high blood pressure, brittle bones, and various forms of cancer. 2. What is the connection between nutrition and health? No matter how hard we try to ignore it, this old adage still rings true. “You are what you eat”. Good health is largely dependent on good nutrition, so much so that doctors trace many physical and emotional ailments back to a diet deficient in vitamins and minerals. Food is the primary source for health and nutrition, although vitamins and supplements act as substitutes. Many medicines and drugs designed to improve health contain synthetic replicas of enzymes and chemicals found in nutrient-dense foods. A well-balanced diet that offers consistent health and nutrition is often extolled for encouraging...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE Title Page……………………………………………………..……………………….. i Approval Sheet ………………………………………………………………...............ii Acknowledgement …………………………………………………………………..…iii Table of Content ……………………………………………………………………….iv List of Figures ………………………………….………………………………............v List of Appendices ……………………………………………………………………..vi CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM AND IT’S SCOPE RATIONALE………………………………………………………………..2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ………………………………….. STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS …………………………………….. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY…………………………………. SCOPE AND DELIMITATION…………………………………… DEFINITION OF TERMS……………………………………….. THERITICAL FRAMEWORK……….…………………………10 – 14 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURES………………………. REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES…………………………….. METHODOLOGY …………………………………...……..19 Research Design ……………….…………………………………...…....19 Research Environment…………………………………...…...19 Research Respondent ……………………………………….......20 Research Instrument ………………………………………..…...20 Sampling Technique……………………...……20 Data Gathering Procedure ………………… Statistical Treatment of Data…………………..……….…….21 Definition of Terms ………………………….……..…....22 – 23 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY ………………… Questionnaire…………………………………………………......24 - 26 CHAPTER I The Problem And Its Scope Rationale The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between nutrition and how it affects student success in school. Nutrition from food is critical for both physical and mental function...
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...Company Analysis: A&W Canada Company Background History A&W is a fast food restaurant that is world famous not only for its food product, but mainly for its original beverage; the A&W root beer. In 1919, a man by the name of Roy Allen decided to set up a drink stand at a parade, which was honoring World War I veterans returning home to Lodi, California. He offered a new product called root beer. The creamy beverage was a great success; so much that he took on a business partner by the name of Frank Wright. In 1922 Allen and Wright with initials combined, created a brand for the beverage calling it the A&W Root Beer. ("History of A&W Root Beer," 2014 Paragraph 2). The first permanent root beer stand was located in Lodi, California and a second location in Sacramento. A&W was the first fast food company to introduce the “drive-in’ and in 1924 Allen decided to peruse franchising. This made A&W the first franchised restaurant in America and by 1933 there were over 170 franchised A&W stands. ("History of A&W Root Beer," 2014 Paragraph 3). Throughout the years the ownership was changed but the company was still a success so much that the consumers wanted to be able to enjoy the product at home too and in 1971 A&W cans and bottles were introduced for sale. ("History of A&W Root Beer," 2014 Paragraph 5, 6). In 1956, the first A&W drive-in restaurant in Canada opened in Winnipeg. The restaurant provided burgers, fries, onion rings...
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