Diet+Analysis+Part+4

Diet Analysis Part 4 Use the Diet & Wellness Plus to enter your food and drink in for at least three(3) days of eating. Analyze your diet and follow the questions. For full points show work where necessary and answer questions thoughtfully with detail. Attach copies of your reports to the assignment. Submit typed assignment to Kritik. 1. Use the following table to compare your dietary intake with your RDA/AI values. Vitamin Alternate name (if any) Your RDA/AI (include units) Your estimated intake (include units) The % of RDA/AI you consumed Did you consume too little (-), too much (+), or just about (=) of your RDA/AI Thiamin Riboflavin Niacin Pantotheni c acid Vitamin B6 Biotin Folate Vitamin B12 Vitamin C Choline 2. You will notice that some of these nutrients have a Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) while others have an Adequate Intake Level (AI); can you explain why this is? 3. For the following, list the foods from your individual days’ Intake Spreadsheets that provided the largest amounts of the following water- soluble vitamins. 4. Using the information you found from answering question 3, what do you notice about the food sources of these water-soluble nutrients, especially the B vitamins? Are there foods (or food groups) that are especially good sources of several of these substances?

Name of food(s) Consumed Amount of nutrient in food consumed (include units) Thiamin Riboflavin Niacin Vitamin B6 Folate Vitamin B12 Vitamin C 5. Based on the assessments of your water-soluble vitamin intake, do you need to change your intakes of these nutrients? If so, please list at least three ways by which this can be accomplished. Fat Soluble Vitamins 6. Evaluate your intake of these fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamin Your RDA/AI Your estimated intake The % RDA/AI you consumed Did you consume too little (-), too much (+), or just about (=) your RDA/AI? A D E K

conclusion as to why certain minerals have an RDA while others have an AI? 11. For the following, list the foods from your individual days’ Intake Spreadsheets that provided the greatest amounts of the following major minerals. Name of food(s) Consumed Amount of nutrient in food consumed (include units) Calcium Magnesium Potassium Sodium 12. Based on the assessment of your intake of selected major minerals, do you need to change your intakes of these nutrients? Why or why not? Given the types of foods that you like and that are available to you, how might you best increase/decrease the amounts of major minerals that you need?