The following plan is intended for use in class on April 19/20 while I am away for Malaysia Week. By that time please make sure that you have created a Fit Day account and are familiar with the basic elements of the website. We will be doing this in class the week before.
Part of this unit's skills and knowledge, we are asking that you do some analysis of your own eating habits and activity levels. Ideally you'd like for everything you eat (input) and everything you do (outputs) to balance out, but you'll find that on a day-to-day basis this balance might not exactly be the case.
To begin this analysis we ask that you use the Fit Day website (www.fitday.com) to create a profile and input information of your dietary and activity habits. Specifically what you need to do it the following:
To Do:
Create an account on www.fitday.com (making sure that you take note of the date of input so you can access it later on if you need to)
Copy and Paste the following items on to your Blog:
1. Using http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx find out what your calorie input should be (according to the US Department of Agriculture) and make a copy of your recommended daily food intake and caloric needs and post it on your blog.
2. Input Foods consumed (copy onto your blog)
3. Input activities done (copy onto your blog)
4. Report: Calories Chart
5. Report: Nutrition
6. Report: %-RDA/AI Graph
7. Report: Calorie Balance
ANALYSIS
Based on the above-stated items, you will now need to make a detailed assessment of how you did with your eating and activity. You DO NOT need to just answer the questions, but write a few paragraphs about your diet and exercise habits. In doing so, please make sure that you include the information given the the following questions/statements.
1. Nutrients (including fats) from the nutrients pie chart on FitDay
2. Daily allowance in relation to what you ate (largely from the food group recommendations on MyPyramid)
3. Identify three nutrients that you consumed close to 100% of RDA
4. Identify three nutrients that you either over-consumed (far above 100%) or under consumed (very low) irregularities you might have (too high or too low)
5. Use the internet to research what the nutrients in #3 and #4 and identify the following:
a. What the nutrient does for the body (what is its function?)
b. What foods you can find the nutrient in?
c. What are the long-term concerns of over or under consumption of this nutrient
d. What adjustments, if any, you will need to make to your diet in order to reach a health point of consumption for this nutrient
6. Identify long term concerns that you will need to be aware of (e.g. a high fat diet would result in higher risk of heart attack) and how you might alter your lifestyle and choices to be more healthy in the future.
7. Compare your food and exercise data to what is recommended for your age, weight, gender and exercise from MyPyramid.gov.
8. In your analysis identify ways that your exercise and diet might affect you in the future. In particular, what "health concerns" do you have for your future? What changes would you have to make in your lifestyle to become more healthy? How easy/difficult would these changes be for you and why?
9. Finally, identify any problem areas that you felt might have given a not-so-good idea of your actual diet and exercise patterns. What there a problem with the program's database in terms of information input? Was the diet and exercise indicative of your normal weekday lifestyle choices? Note any problems in your blog.
To begin this analysis we ask that you use the Fit Day website (www.fitday.com) to create a profile and input information of your dietary and activity habits. Specifically what you need to do it the following:
To Do:
Create an account on www.fitday.com (making sure that you take note of the date of input so you can access it later on if you need to)
Copy and Paste the following items on to your Blog:
1. Using http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx find out what your calorie input should be (according to the US Department of Agriculture) and make a copy of your recommended daily food intake and caloric needs and post it on your blog.
2. Input Foods consumed (copy onto your blog)
3. Input activities done (copy onto your blog)
4. Report: Calories Chart
5. Report: Nutrition
6. Report: %-RDA/AI Graph
7. Report: Calorie Balance
ANALYSIS
Based on the above-stated items, you will now need to make a detailed assessment of how you did with your eating and activity. You DO NOT need to just answer the questions, but write a few paragraphs about your diet and exercise habits. In doing so, please make sure that you include the information given the the following questions/statements.
1. Nutrients (including fats) from the nutrients pie chart on FitDay
2. Daily allowance in relation to what you ate (largely from the food group recommendations on MyPyramid)
3. Identify three nutrients that you consumed close to 100% of RDA
4. Identify three nutrients that you either over-consumed (far above 100%) or under consumed (very low) irregularities you might have (too high or too low)
5. Use the internet to research what the nutrients in #3 and #4 and identify the following:
a. What the nutrient does for the body (what is its function?)
b. What foods you can find the nutrient in?
c. What are the long-term concerns of over or under consumption of this nutrient
d. What adjustments, if any, you will need to make to your diet in order to reach a health point of consumption for this nutrient
6. Identify long term concerns that you will need to be aware of (e.g. a high fat diet would result in higher risk of heart attack) and how you might alter your lifestyle and choices to be more healthy in the future.
7. Compare your food and exercise data to what is recommended for your age, weight, gender and exercise from MyPyramid.gov.
8. In your analysis identify ways that your exercise and diet might affect you in the future. In particular, what "health concerns" do you have for your future? What changes would you have to make in your lifestyle to become more healthy? How easy/difficult would these changes be for you and why?
9. Finally, identify any problem areas that you felt might have given a not-so-good idea of your actual diet and exercise patterns. What there a problem with the program's database in terms of information input? Was the diet and exercise indicative of your normal weekday lifestyle choices? Note any problems in your blog.
We will be using the following rubric to assess your analysis:
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