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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.
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