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Diet Analysis Project- 100 points
This assignment is all about YOUR diet. The point of this assignment is to analyze what you would
normally eat and drink in order to determine your nutritional status. Once you know your nutrient
deficiencies and excesses, you’ll know what dietary changes you need to make to be healthier.
Assignment Details:
Record everything you eat, drink and consume for 3 days. It is best if you document or record the
foods/beverages right after you consume them, so you don’t forget.
One of the three days should include a weekend day.
Do not change your diet! The evaluation should be based on what you typically eat.
Measure everything that you eat and drink (use measuring cups)
Record any exercise you did for each of the 3 days
You will take the food/beverage record and exercise record and input the data into the Diet Analysis
Program.
If certain foods/beverages are not found in the Diet Analysis program you will need to choose an alternative
option that is similar
Once you input your food/beverage and exercise data, the program will analyze everything you enter.
You will need to submit two of the diet analysis reports: 1). Nutrition Facts report and 2). Actual vs.
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Recommend report
Write a 3-page (double- spaced) critique/essay of your results from the analysis. In this critique/essay,
discuss what nutrients you were deficient or excessive in. Discuss how you can improve or change your
diet to meet your needs better. Example: deficient in calcium you would discuss what foods include or
increase in your diet to improve your intake of calcium rich foods dairy products, green leafy vegetables,
tofu and almonds. Please list all references used for this critique.
The finished assignment should include 3 parts:
Part 1: Neatly typed 3-day food and beverage record/log
Part 2: Two reports from the diet analysis software-nutrition facts and actual vs. recommended
Part 3: 3-page critique (essay) of your dietary analysis results. Critique needs to include:
Review what nutrients you are deficient or excessive in (hint: you can find this data in the actual vs.
recommend intake report).
Expand on what foods you can incorporate into you diet to increase your intake of your deficient nutrients
and what foods you may need to reduce to lower your intake of certain nutrients.
Discuss if you met your needs for calcium, iron, fiber, vitamin A, and vitamin D, and how you can improve in
your diet , what foods would you increase or decrease?
Review sodium, saturated fat and sugar intake (more or less than the recommendations?)
Review what your actual Kcal intake was vs. what your recommendation was
Discuss what your goal was: maintain, lose or gain
Discuss if this assignment was beneficial for you and what you have learned from it
Grading Rubric: 100 points
Typed 3-day food log- including food measurements, and amounts: (10 points)
Diet Analysis Reports: 2 reports need to be included: (total of 20 points)
Actual vs Recommended intake (10 points)
Nutrition Facts (10 points)
3-page critique (essay) with references/ sources: (70 points)
Introduction, body and conclusion: 15 points
References (cite at least 2 sources, you can use your class text book for one of the sources): 10 points
Discussing Nutrient intake (sodium, saturated fat, macronutrient and micronutrient intake): 40 points
Spelling/ grammar: 5 points
** Late assignments will be deducted 10 points per day, every day it is late!
**Papers that are less than 2 pages will have points deducted