Diet Analysis

Diet Analysis Paper

C’Jerika Manning

04-24-13

Nutrition for Life

Instructor: Dawn Palacios

Lancaster General College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Abstract

In this paper I will be discussing the areas of nutritional value that I lacked and what I was alright in with my daily recommended values. I will improve the areas by talking about certain ways on how to improve my daily so I can reach my daily recommended values. In the paper I will also be discussing what lifestyle changes I can do to help prevent diseases such as osteoporosis and high blood pressure. I will also be discussing meal plans to help lower and increase my intake of vitamin A, sodium, potassium and calcium.

Diet Analysis Paper

Diet Inadequacies or Excesses

For the last ten years I have been unsuccessful of obtaining a well-balanced diet. I would normally consume too many calories or not enough. Some days I would eat three meals with snacks in between, but other days I could skip meals and just eat junk. I would do that to basically lose weight, not knowing that what I was doing was unhealthy, and wasn’t going to help me lose the weight. With the help of SuperTrack, I was able to identify four areas of inadequacies within my daily diet. Those four areas would be vitamin a, potassium, sodium and calcium. SuperTracker I should be consuming 1300mg of calcium per day, but on average I only consume 476mg per day (“Nutrients Report,” 2013). To increase my intake of calcium I could easily consume dry roasted almonds without salt for a snack during the day. I will do this by eating the dry roasted almonds for a late after lunch snack and bedtime snack every day. This snack is a lot healthier than the chocolate chip cookies my grandma makes all the time, or the bag of chips that I end up getting out of the vending machine. According to Health Ness, one whole cup of almonds has 367 mg of calcium per cup ("Top 10 Foods Highest in Calcium", n.d.,...