chronic diseases due to poor diet. The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) has translated nutrient recommendations into a Dietary Guideline for Americans. This guideline is designed to help people maintain a healthy weight‚ reduce the risk of chronic disease‚ and build a healthy eating pattern including recommendations for physical activity. This guideline is reviewed and revised every five years as needed. Overall‚ the point of the guideline is to show Americans how to live a more healthy and active lifestyle
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Unit 21 P3 Explain possible influences on dietary intake Vicky is a single mother of two boys under 3. Influences on Vicky’s Dietary Intake Lifestyle: The lifestyle Vicky lives affects her dietary intake as she does not enjoy cooking and has the accessibility of dixy chicken next door to her‚ this can have a long term effect on Vicky as the food she is eating is not natural or healthy. In order for her body to function correctly and for her to live a healthy lifestyle she needs to receive certain
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Dietary intake of the patient should be assessed first. Interviewing the patient on their food intake. Knowing what the patient takes will alert the nurse on what they will teach or encourage the patient on what to eat and how to limit certain amount of foods. Referring to a dietician to help modify‚ formulate and individualize a dietary program will be beneficial. The patient’s diet must be individualized. Patients differ; they had unique circumstances in terms of palatability‚ cost‚ comorbid
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Dietary Required Intakes and Other Nutrition Nutrition and the way our body stores and uses it changes daily with our routines. First let us discuss protein and how need it to enrich the nutrients in the body. Protein comes from several different sources of food. By the DRI my intake is low on protein because of the foods I eat daily. I get most protein from peanut butter and meats at dinner. I have several food items high in protein that I have medical reasons not to eat them such as nuts
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Written Report Nutrion W-03 1a. My calorie intake for the three days isn’t appropriate. I documented each item i ate‚ surprisingly it wasn’t as high as I imagined it to be. I thought it would be a lot higher because I don’t watch what I eat like I should. My calorie intake should be about 2000 and it was around 2869 on day 1. Even though I went over 869 calories each calorie can affect the body. Calories will affect weight‚ health‚ and energy levels. If a person eats more than they burn
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Food Intake Food Intake During my health and nutrition course‚ I have learned about how a bad diet can put me at risk for several diseases. Knowing that information I have decided to change my diet to help get the healthier lifestyle I need for a healthy life. In order for me to accomplish my goal I have recorded what I have eaten for the last three days on a program called iProfile. The programed is designed to assess your diet and energy balance‚ by comparing the amount of protein‚ carbohydrates
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Food Intake – 3 Days SCI/220 01/31/12 Food Intake – 3 Days After recording my dietary intake for three days through the Wiley iProfile 2.0 and reviewing the reports‚ I have found that this provides a better a broader scope of my eating habits and the nutritional value in each thing I eat. According to Wiley iProfile 2.0 (2010)‚ I am 65% below the recommended target DRI intake. The main sources of protein recorded in the three day study were the chicken‚ garbanzo beans
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helps maintain acid-base balance and is essential to muscle contraction and nerve transmission. The DRI recommended intakes for sodium for adults ages 19 to 50 years old is 1‚500 milligrams per day. The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for sodium for adults ages 19 years and older is 2‚300 milligrams sodium per day which is the about in about 1 teaspoon of salt. The DRI Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for salt for adults 19 years and older is 5.6 grams of salt (sodium chloride‚ NaCl) a
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P3 – Explain possible influences on dietary intake. In this task I am going to explain about how can some of dietary intakes can impact people’s health. Lactose intolerance is a health factor that influence people’s diet and those who have lactose intolerance are at a high risk to not receive the necessary nutrients intake that supply the body to be strong and healthy such as calcium and vitamin D. For example‚ nowadays‚ children are born with different kinds of food intolerance. Moreover‚ this
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enhance flavor. Sodium is the predominant ion in extra cellular fluid. Sodium (Na) is the predominant cation in extra cellular fluid and its concentration is under tight homeostatic control. Excess dietary sodium is excreted in the urine. The kidney very efficiently reabsorbs the mineral when intakes are low or losses are excessive. Sodium consort with potassium‚ the chief cation of intracellular fluid‚ to maintain proper body water distribution and blood pressure. Sodium also is important in maintaining
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