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 following questions/statements.

1. Nutrients (including fats) from the nutrients pie chart on FitDay

• Fat 25%
• Carbs 40%
• Protein 35%
• Alcohol 0%

2. Daily allowance in relation to what you ate (largely from the food group recommendations on MyPyramid)

• Grains - 10 ounces
• Vegetables - 4 cups
• Fruits - 2.5 cups
• Dairy - 3 cups
• Protein Foods - 7 ounces

The yellow represents the food group I need to improve on otherwise the green represents the good groups that I am always eating and obtaining.

3. Identify three nutrients that you consumed close to 100% of RDA

• Carbohydrates
• Copper

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)

• Vitamin D 3%
• Selenium 496%
• Niacin 428%

5. Use the internet to research what the nutrients in #3 and #4 and identify the following:

• Carbohydrates - A compound that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and canbe broken down to release energy in the body.
• Copper - A red metal, the chemical element, that helps conduct heat and electricity
• Vitamin D - A vitamin found in liver and fish oils, and absorbs calcium.
• Selenium - A gray crystalline non metal with semiconducting properties
• Niacin - B vitamin essential for the normal function, and the gastrointestinal tract.

a. What is the nutrient does for the body (what is its function?)

• Carbohydrates - A compound that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and canbe broken down to release energy in the body.
• Copper - A red metal, the chemical element, that helps conduct heat and electricity
• Vitamin D - A vitamin found in liver and fish oils, and absorbs calcium.
• Selenium - A gray crystalline non metal with semiconducting properties
• Niacin - B vitamin essential for the normal function, and the gastrointestinal tract

b. What foods you can find the nutrient in?
Carbohydrates -

· bananas

· barley

· beans

· brown rice

· chickpeas

· lentils

· nuts

Copper

• Oysters
• Sesame Seeds and Tahiti
• Cocoa Powder and Chocolate
• Nuts
• Lobster

Vitamin D

• Salmon
• Mackerel
• Tuna Fish
• Sardines
• Milk
• Pudding

Selenium

• Brazil Nuts
• Sunflower
• Fish
• Shellfish
• Meat
• Poultry
• Eggs
• Mushrooms
• Grains

Niacin

• Coffee
• Energy Drinks
• Oats
• Cereals

c. What are the long-term concerns of over or under consumption of this nutrient

The glucose, calcium, nicotinic acid, and thyroid hormone are not released throughout my body and my body cannot fully perform as it should.

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?

I will have to eat/consume a lot more of the foods I listed above, and if I continuously eat these things, then my body will be so much more better off.

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.

If I don't start changing my diet I will most likely if I don't change some of my eating habits, and actions it will affect me a lot in the long term. In the future it could lead to having many common, health issues and or problems.

7. Compare your food and exercise data to what is recommended for your age, weight, gender and exercise from MyPyramid.gov.

It says that from my basic body information is that I should be eating 3200 calories a day with over 60 mins of exercise a day. From data only taken for a day, I ate 2,498 calories, while I burned 4,162 calories in a single day. So I need to eat a lot more, so I can/could perform or function better throughout my daily live, and exercise times.

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?
The data says that I need to eat 3200 calories per day to have a healthy daily lifestyle. From one day of data, the results state that I have to eat a lot more because the calories I loose from my exercise is more than the calories consumed. In the future this wouldn't be such a huge problem, but I would like my body to be more built and meaty. This is more than likely the reason I am very skinny. This would be an easy change for me because I would have to eat more small meals and a few big meals, to have a constant stomach full of food/energy.

9. Finally, identify any problem areas that you felt might have given a not-so-good idea of your actual diet and exercise patterns. Was 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.

I do not like how it gives you such a straight up answer about what you need to fix, it doesn't show how they estimated how much you need to eat, and they don't help show us steps on how to improve in our personal areas of our diet.