After completing this performance task, I realized and learned many things. One of them was finding out that I am not consuming enough calcium. Calcium is important for bone growth and the prevention of osteoporosis. Also my cholesterol, fat and saturated fat, and sodium intake was too high. At the beginning of the performance task, I did not realize what harm excessive intake of these components can do to my body. However after having done research on them I found out that too much sodium, fat, saturated fat and cholesterol is bad for health. This is as they cause harmful effects to our body such as sodium causes our bodies to retain water and too much of it will increase our chances of getting high blood pressure.
After realizing these facts, I decided to try my best to modify and change my diet, in order to live a healthier lifestyle and to prevent harm on my body from the foods I eat. Although I know that it would be difficult to stop eating unhealthy foods completely, I will try my best to cut down on them bit by bit and hopefully be able to lower my intake of them to a minimum level, and try to eat healthy, balanced meals instead.
Besides this, I have also learnt how to substitute unhealthy meals, changing them into healthier meals, such as by changing the ingredients used in preparing the meals, as well as changing the method used to cook the meal and reducing the amount of unhealthy ingredients used in preparing the meals. On example is to bake fries instead of deep frying them, as this reduces the amount of fat in the dish, due to lesser oil being used. This would help me in my attempt to change my diet to a healthier one, as my fat intake is too high.
This performance task has also enabled me to have a better understanding of the different types of food groups, how much of each food group we should consume on a daily basis, and why each and everyone of them is important. With a better and new knowledge on nutrition and the benefits of each food group, I am thus able to head towards a healthier lifestyle and can change my diet to suit a healthy lifestyle.
Before this PT, I did not pay much attention to my diet and never cared much about what I was consuming. However, I am now more conscious to what I consume and take the effort and care to find out the nutritional values of the foods I eat. I also has misconceptions that healthy food was bland, and did not taste as good a unhealthy food. However, I am now able to realize that healthy food can be as good tasting or even better tasting than unhealthy food, while providing us with the nutrients and energy that we need to maintain a healthy lifestyle!
I think the suggested nutritional tools are very useful, and easy to use. For example, the food intake assessment has a wide database and is relatively accurate in calculating total dietary intake. The intake analysis is also very comprehensive and very informative telling us what we should or should not be eating, the reasons why we should do so and what the consequences of our diet can be. It also gives us helpful suggestions of what other things we can do in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle such as what are the exercises that we should do. Therefore as the tools provide me with so much valuable information and enable me to learn so much, I think that they are extremely useful.
After realizing these facts, I decided to try my best to modify and change my diet, in order to live a healthier lifestyle and to prevent harm on my body from the foods I eat. Although I know that it would be difficult to stop eating unhealthy foods completely, I will try my best to cut down on them bit by bit and hopefully be able to lower my intake of them to a minimum level, and try to eat healthy, balanced meals instead.
Besides this, I have also learnt how to substitute unhealthy meals, changing them into healthier meals, such as by changing the ingredients used in preparing the meals, as well as changing the method used to cook the meal and reducing the amount of unhealthy ingredients used in preparing the meals. On example is to bake fries instead of deep frying them, as this reduces the amount of fat in the dish, due to lesser oil being used. This would help me in my attempt to change my diet to a healthier one, as my fat intake is too high.
This performance task has also enabled me to have a better understanding of the different types of food groups, how much of each food group we should consume on a daily basis, and why each and everyone of them is important. With a better and new knowledge on nutrition and the benefits of each food group, I am thus able to head towards a healthier lifestyle and can change my diet to suit a healthy lifestyle.
Before this PT, I did not pay much attention to my diet and never cared much about what I was consuming. However, I am now more conscious to what I consume and take the effort and care to find out the nutritional values of the foods I eat. I also has misconceptions that healthy food was bland, and did not taste as good a unhealthy food. However, I am now able to realize that healthy food can be as good tasting or even better tasting than unhealthy food, while providing us with the nutrients and energy that we need to maintain a healthy lifestyle!
I think the suggested nutritional tools are very useful, and easy to use. For example, the food intake assessment has a wide database and is relatively accurate in calculating total dietary intake. The intake analysis is also very comprehensive and very informative telling us what we should or should not be eating, the reasons why we should do so and what the consequences of our diet can be. It also gives us helpful suggestions of what other things we can do in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle such as what are the exercises that we should do. Therefore as the tools provide me with so much valuable information and enable me to learn so much, I think that they are extremely useful.
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