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diff --git a/rosbruck/Cronometer.pdf b/rosbruck/Cronometer.pdf Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..af89f5e --- /dev/null +++ b/rosbruck/Cronometer.pdf diff --git a/rosbruck/Makefile b/rosbruck/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..367de41 --- /dev/null +++ b/rosbruck/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +.POSIX: +.SUFFIXES: .tex .pdf + +PDFTEX = pdftex + +.tex.pdf: + $(PDFTEX) $< + +all: surveys.pdf nutrition.pdf + +clean: + rm -f *.pdf *.log + +nutrition.pdf: Cronometer.pdf nutrition_essay.pdf + pdftk Cronometer.pdf nutrition_essay.pdf output nutrition.pdf diff --git a/rosbruck/nutrition_essay.tex b/rosbruck/nutrition_essay.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3d8806 --- /dev/null +++ b/rosbruck/nutrition_essay.tex @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +\catcode`@=11 +\font\twelverm=ptmr7t at 12pt +\def\rm{\fam\z@\twelverm} +\font\twelvebf=ptmb7t at 12pt +\def\bf{\fam\bffam\twelvebf} +\catcode`@=12 +\rm +\baselineskip=16pt +\nopagenumbers + +\centerline{\bf Nutrition Report} +\medskip + +I logged my activity and my eating over three days, from Thursday Feb 10 +to Saturday Feb 12. +The results I obtained are very reaffirming for me. +On some days, I ate more ``junk food'' (like ramen, sweet drinks, etc) +and on Thursday, for example, I ate at the dining halls, and got a lot +of vitamins and minerals through greens and salad. +Tracking my food was surprisingly hard because there wasn't available +nutrition information for a lot of the food that I was eating. +I expect the vitamins and minerals (which are, at worst, about 50\%) to +level out by the end of the month. +Calcium, for example, will go up when I drink milky beverages, vitamin C +will go up when I eat ketchup, etc. + +However, I am worried by the given protein macronutrient target. +My energy intake is about exactly what I want for weight stability/light +gain, but I want to figure out how to eat more protein. +The easiest way to do this would be eating more meat, which is +plentifully available at the dining halls, but I'm worried about meat +ethics, so I probably need to incorporate more beans, nuts, and whole +grains into my diet because my protein intake over several days is +probably stable. +However, my dining hall-only day, Thursday, I did achieve 100\% protein +intake but interestingly fell behind on carbohydrate intake. + +If any of these vitamins stay consistently low, I should start taking a +multivitamin to compensate for my diet, but I still believe that these +will level out over time. +The water rating on this chart is most definitely incorrect because I +drink a lot of only water and this measure only includes +cola/milk/tea/etc. that I logged because it was exceptional. + +I was worried about my sugar intake, especially when I eat somewhere +like Smoothie King, (one of their smoothies can have up to 250$g$ of +sugar in it!) and this assignment confirms my worries. +150$g$ of simple sugar per day is something I'd rather reduce because +the WHO only recommends about 35$g$ per day for men. + +I am glad that I stuck to using about 0mg of caffeine per day because +caffeine makes me feel really jittery and I worry about forming a +dependency if I even start using it to wake up in the morning. +Doing this assignment makes me want to track my calories less because a +lot of the foods that I eat, I don't exactly know the calories of. +And I already have a very good understanding of what food I eat that has +high sugar contents or has very low protein content. + +That means that this assignment is probably not going to change my +eating habits at all. +It gives me some interesting statistics on how much and what type of +food I'm eating, but I already knew that I was eating more sugar than I +wanted to, eating less protein than I wanted to, and had fairly stable +vitamin/mineral levels (because I don't have any symptoms of a +deficiency). + +Vitamn D is one vitamn which I don't believe on this chart. Counting +only food intake, this is probably very accurate, but I'm very +light-skinned and campus has been sunny for the past few days, so I +expect that I have probably more vitamin D from the sun than is +otherwise accounted for. +I'm not at all worried about dietary fiber, but it is listed as below +the ``recommended amount,'' probably because I don't eat very many whole +fruits and I usually eat heavier, starchier big meals. +This might point to a necessary change in my snacking behavior, i.e. +starting to snack and snacking on whole foods. +Next year, when I have access to a kitchen, my diet will also change +very significantly. + +\bye |