One Day Intake

Food Intake for One Day

Randy Hale

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August 7, 2011

Dr Ana Perez

Food Intake for One Day

Dietary awareness is one of the most important parts of a healthy lifestyle; this includes a healthy daily diet and nutritional awareness. Nutrition is defined as a science that links food to health and disease, it include the process, which the human organisms ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, and excretes food substances (Wardlaw & Smith, 2009).  Being educated on nutrition recommendations, Dietary reference intakes (DRI’s), Dietary Guidelines for Americans, MyPyramid.gov and food and supplement labels help us build a diet that leads to a healthier life (Grosvenor & Smolin, 2010). I monitored my daily intake for one day, now let’s look at: Did my dietary intake provide a healthful diet? Why or why not? Did I consume the recommended DRI’s from each food groups, vitamins, and minerals? Where some food groups underrepresented or overrepresented in my diet? Did my diet provide an adequate variety of foods? How does my diet compare to the diet of Kelly Watson?

My dietary intake profile shows me that I have a diet that needs some adjustment to make it a healthful diet. No I did consume the recommended DRI’s from each food groups, vitamins, and minerals. In fact some of the results scare me to death. The scariest result is the amount of sodium that I took into my body which was 9380 mg. This is 407 percent over my dietary reference intake of 1500-2300mg daily. National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences recommends 1,200 - 1,500 mg of sodium is the daily sodium requirement for adults. High sodium levels found in fast food increase and aggravate the risks of blood pressure levels (Manohar, 2011). Other things that are way off the chart are vitamins and minerals intake levels. Some examples my iron level is 440 percent and my calcium level 111 percent above my dietary reference intake. On a good note my calories from fat and total fat...