Writing Homework Help

Introduction:

In Chapter 12, you read and learned about Nutrition Guidelines. Below are a few questions that you will discuss as a group.  Answer the questions in your own post, then reply to two peers whose answers differ from yours.  Provide feedback to their answers (did you agree or not agree, and explain why – offer ideas, suggestions, etc.).  All 3 questions must be answered and discussed in length to receive full credit.

The Prompt:

1. Discuss how an individual might use the Dietary Guideline for Americans to improve their personal well-being.

2. Explain what Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are and how they can be used for planning a child’s daily diet.

3. Explain how food labeled low-fat, fat-free, and reduced calories differ.

by Paige SaundersNumber of replies: 1

1. Discuss how an individual might use the Dietary Guideline for Americans to improve their personal well-being.

-Using this helps create a healthy diet containing the right amounts of each food group per day. This paper is what tells us the recommended information regarding health maintenance, nutrition, and to prevent diseases. You can use this as a guide to eat healthy and learn about healthy eating patterns as well as weight management and exercise. Someone might use this chart to help them establish and follow through with a healthy eating/ exercise pattern, making better food choices. This may also help someone to keep a diary of variety of nutrients being consumed and what they need to eat and do daily for a good diet. This also helps to limit sugars, fats, sodium, and calories. I am also going to try this out to help me with my diet.

2. Explain what Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are and how they can be used for planning a child’s daily diet.

-This is like a master guideline for planning nutrition and it has four different parts to it. This document lets you know your recommended daily allowance which is an intake goal for a person. Then, there is nutrient intake goals for whenever a recommended daily allowance is unknown, this is called adequate intake. To make the recommended daily allowance, it helps to know the nutrient amounts to meet certain requirements called estimated average requirement. Last on this document is the highest level of intake that has no health risks, but if you go over this limit it could cause health issues or raise concerns for your health. This is called the tolerable upper intake level. These tools help to keep people on track and plan diets for individuals as well as adding up nutrient intakes. This chart is used when making food labels on out different packaging. The dietary reference intake document is used to add up someone’s food and nutrient intake daily and this is done by writing down everything they ate in 24 hours. They then should look up the nutrition information for anything that was consumed that day and total up all of the nutrients, calories, and values for each item. This also includes beverages/ liquids. Pick gender and age group on the DRI to see if the amounts match, are too high or too low and adjust diet if needed to get the levels correct for the individual.

3. Explain how food labeled low-fat, fat-free, and reduced calories differ.-Low fat means that the food has per serving less than or 3 grams of fat. Fat free means that a food has less that .5 grams of fat per serving size consumed. Reduced calories means that the food has 25% less calories for each serving, compared to the original product.

Reply:

BY ELIN SHEARIN
Number of replies: 1

An individual might use the Dietary Guideline for Americans to improve their personal well-being by following the guidelines that are in place. They will use the Dietary Guideline for Americans to help them choose their daily food choices. The guidelines provide recommendations for daily food choices. They also encourage these daily food choices to be balanced with physical activity. By following these guidelines, a person can have good health and it can reduce certain disease risks.

Dietary Reference Intakes are a plan that presents the recommended goals of nutrient intakes for various age and gender groups. The Dietary Reference Intakes can be used to plan a child’s daily diet by matching the child’s age to the amount of each vitamin. For example, a child that is one to three years old should have 15 mg of Vitamin C. By following the chart, early education programs can make sure that they are providing adequate nutrition to the children in their care.

Foods that are labeled low-fat have 3 grams or less fat per serving. Ones that are labeled fat-free have less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving. Finally, food items that say that are reduced calories have at least twenty-five percent fewer calories per serving than the reference food. Consumers can make informed decisions about food if they know the percentage of calories from fat. This helps them determine the food’s nutrient quality and avoid being misled by claims that a food item is low-fat versus fat-free. When buying food, it is important that we as consumers read the label so that we can verify for ourselves the nutritional value.