Resources
Use this nutrition analysis tool to examine your dietary choices
Eat This, Not That
Healthy Eating Links
Assignment
How do little changes make a big difference in our diet?
In this assignment, students will examine trends in their diets and decide on small nutritional changes they can make to improve their diet.
Personal Nutrition Assignment
Step One:
Track your food intake for two days. Don’t forget to include beverages and snacks.
Step Two:
Create an account at caloriecount.com (note: please use your best sense when creating an account. It is safest to not reveal personal information online. You may wish to have an “Internet Identity”)
Step Three:
Put your nutritional information into the caloriecount.com site. Once you have completed each day, do an analysis of the foods you have consumed. Enter the results below
Step Four:
Examine the results of step Three. What are three trends you have noted in your diet?
Step Five:
Determine three small changes you can make to improve your diet,
Step Six:
Develop a plan for eating out. Make a list of three strategies you can use to make good nutritional decisions when you are eating out
Text Resources
Foods That Harm and Foods That Heal by ISBN: 9781621450016Publication Date: 2012-12-27The first edition of Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal changed the way we view food and its impact on our bodies. Interest in food as medicine has only grown as researchers have continued to discover the crucial connections between diet and chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other serious illnesses, as well as the impact of food on stress, insomnia, and other common complaints.
The Eat This, Not That! No-Diet Diet by ISBN: 9781609612498Publication Date: 2011-03-01This books helps users make good choices when they are eating out. It offers practical suggestions for how to make good food choices.
