10/10/14

Tonight's homework is to finish the Food Choice Investigation Lab Report and also complete Assignment 6. See previous posts for resources for the lab report and below for Assignment 6.

Assignment #6 - Investigating the Foods You Eat

Introduction

Now that you’ve established why you eat the way that you do we are going to investigate what you ate and what is the nutritional value of the food you consumed.

Procedure

1. Create an account at www.cronometer.com.

2. Log the foods and drinks that you recorded in your food log. Do so for all of the days that you have recorded (or as many as you can).

3. Click on “Trend” (among the tabs next to “Diary”). Then click on “Charts” and “Nutrition Report” in order to visualize the nutritional contents of the foods/drinks you consumed in meaningful ways.

4. Think about and answer the following in complete sentences:

a. What is your initial reaction to the information supplied to you? For example, do you agree/disagree with its accuracy?

b. What questions do you have about the terminology/abbreviations used?

c. Do any of the values surprise you? Why or why not?

d. What does the term RDA (or RDA %) mean to you?

e. Are there any nutrients that you are getting more than enough of? Why do you think that is?

f. Are there any nutrients that you are getting less than enough of? Why do you think that is?

g. Why do you think you were tasked with recording your diet over multiple days instead of just one?

h. What do you think is the value of using websites like cronometer.com to record and analyze one’s food intake?