From 6d54a14e80dfdadfc4ee08989744442fbe02e6c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:14:04 -0500
Subject: health nutrition essay

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+\centerline{\bf Nutrition Report}
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+
+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
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cgit 

