Nutrition
Are you currently on a diet now or have ever been on one? Add a description if so about the general type of diet.
If you’ve been on a diet, did you do any calorie counting or take into consideration the energy of the food you were eating? If so, what was your method?
Did you ever take into account how much exercise you’d have to do to burn off a certain meal or indulgence? If so, how did you calculate that?a. What percentage of your typical energy requirements you consumed. (Show your full calculation)
How much more of the Typical Energy Requirements for Adults you have left for the day based on your Gender, Age and Activity level.
Summarize the major findings you found above. How did your Total Energy for this meal compared to Typical Energy? How long would it take you to burn off the energy you consumed – looking at how many hours of sleep and swimming was needed to burn off your Total Energy for this meal.
Discuss if the food items were a good energy source for you. If not, discuss why not. Foods differ in their density of a wide variety of nutrients as compared to just the calories they give you.
Explain why you chose each of these food sources and if you would select differently next time. If you were on a particular diet how would your meal fit into that diet.
