Unit 21: Nutrition for Health and Social Care Unit code: L/601/2407 QCF Level 3: BTEC Nationals Credit value: 10 Guided learning hours: 60 Aim and purpose This unit aims to give learners an understanding of current thinking on nutritional health particularly relating to users of health and social care services. Learners will then be able to apply this understanding and make recommendations to improve the nutritional health of an individual. Unit introduction This
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Plan The three day eating plan that I entered at the beginning of class showed that I wasn’t getting the nutrition’s needed for my height and weight. The food that I entered, the pyramid showed for day one that my milk intake was 83%, meat and beans intake was 89.0%, vegetables intake was 80%, fruits intake was 0%, and gains intake was 35%. For day 2 milk intakes was 73%, meat and beans intake was 0%, vegetables intake was 176%, fruits intake was 0%, and grains intake was 138%. For day 3 milk intakes
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Axia College Material Appendix E Assess Your Food Intake This activity demonstrates how to select a healthful food regime. Go to http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/ to begin the activity. Using the steps provided below you will enter your daily food intake for a typical day. Once you finish the activity complete the three follow-up questions. Step One Click on the New User Registration on the bottom left side of the screen. Once you complete the registration, you will be able to enter food
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the printout of your Recommended versus Actual Intakes (MyDietAnalysis): Sources of Calories: Current recommendations for macronutrients are 45-65% of calories from carbohydrates, 20-35% calories from fat and 10-35% calories from protein. Compare your intakes with the recommendations. Use your 3 day average for the calculations below. 1. Average Average Average % Total Daily Intake Calories from Total Calories Calories
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Food Intake 3 Days Working with the Wiley PLUS iProfile has gotten better. At first it was not that much fun entering food was difficult. After working with the program it has gotten easier and I like working with it. And that is a big part of being able to use a tool like this. If you do not like it you will not use it. Reviewing the foods that I taken in over the three days the protein that I take in is mostly from Beef and chicken. But I am learning that there is protein in a lot of what
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effects of caffeine, and then provide guidance on how to use it in a healthy way. The positive effects of caffeine Caffeine has beneficial functions on preventing or even curing some kinds of diseases. This advantage has been well testified on three fields: skin cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and liver disease. A US study has found that caffeine can decrease the risk of skin cancer [2]. They indicated that caffeine can boost the body’s natural progress, witch is called apoptosis or synchronised
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admitted to hospital following an episode of severe shortness of breath. She suffers from Asthma and has a history of recurrent chest infections and bouts of bronchitis, which she takes antibiotics for in the winter. She takes Salbutamol 100mgs three times a day. However, over the last week she has been feeling very tired and reports an inability to sleep because of the tightness in her chest, coughing up sputum and wheezing. She has lost her appetite and is unable to carry out her usual activities
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analysis using Supertracker and, originally, an excel sheet that I started logging my food intake on; however, it only had two spots designated for calories and fats, so I asked around and discovered MyFitnessPal. I ended up choosing Supertracker and MyFitnessPal as my mediums for this assignment, and overall was impressed by how easy they were to navigate. To begin, both sites offered great information on food intake, but the biggest difference between the two was that MyFitnessPal actually registered
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Food Intake—5 Days Krista Zahn SCI/220 January 29, 2013 Richard Kantner Food Intake—5 Day Over the last five days I have been using the iProfile to track my food and nutrient intake, as well as become educated on certain daily intakes, nutrients, and diseases. This iProfile tracks and correlates my food journal and activity journal, by then configuring the results into many reports. I then used these reports for the findings in the following paper, Food Intake—5 Day.
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affect someone’s required daily intake of calories, vitamins, and minerals. After looking at my dietary assessment sheet and grouping the intakes, I learned several facts about my diet. In spirit of the new year, I decided to alter my eating habits. I used to eat fast food everyday and
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