Using myfitnesspal (or another diet tracking software), conduct a three day diet analysis. Record the foods and amounts eaten during the day.

Diet Analysis (15%)

Aims:

To conduct a three-day diet analysis that tracks your consumptions of calories, protein, fats, carbs (simple and complex carbs), water, salt, vitamin B & C, Mg, Zn and amount of processed vs whole foods. At the conclusion of the three days, tabulate your intake. Write a synthesis of the overall quality and quantity of your diet. Identify three changes needed to support your health. Develop improvement strategies and outcome measures for each change.

Directions:

1. Using myfitnesspal (or another diet tracking software), conduct a three day diet analysis.  Record the foods and amounts eaten during the day.
2. Complete the chart to identify how your daily diet relates to the RDI for the macro and micronutrients. 
3. Complete the diet analysis.
4. Submit the assignment following APA formatting.

Diet Analysis (Max 2 pages):

The diet analysis should include the following:

a)      Based on your Chart, what aspects of your diet support a healthy eating pattern?  /2

b)      Based on your Chart, what aspects of your diet do not support a healthy eating pattern?  /2

c)      What are the potential health outcomes (a minimum of 2) if you continue in this eating pattern?  Use evidence to support this link.  /4 

d)     Identify two changes needed to support your health.  Describe the change required and an outcome measure for success for each.  Use evidence to support this link.  /4

Diet analysis table must be completed and included with your submission as an appendix in order for the assignment to be graded. 

*Minimum of one evidence based article to support your analysis.

Please use the APA resources provided on the course Bb site.  These will support you to ensure your paper is free of APA errors.  It will be up to you to examine your paper to determine if you have made errors.  If your paper contains APA errors, you will lose 0.5 marks for 2 or less errors, 1 mark for 4 or less errors and 2 marks for 6 or more errors.

Although each section has allotted grades to emphasize the importance of the various sections, your assignment will receive an overall grade out of 15.