1) What have you learnt about your eating habits?
2) Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
3) Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
4) Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
I have learnt that my eating habits are definitely not healthy - I realised that I do eat a lot, having an average of 5 meals a day on weekdays and 6 or 7 on weekends, which is due to the I’ve also inordinate amount of snacks I eat [on average a packet of chips per day]. Given this incessant snacking, I was actually surprised at the fact that I had not exceeded the recommended allowances by very much except for my sodium and fat intakes, which is common in almost everyone. However, even if my results weren’t as bad as I thought they would be, I definitely need to improve upon my eating habits. Secondly, I snack constantly and eat a lot of junk food, even late at night and early in the morning, and also at very strange timings – the three day analysis was conducted on weekdays, therefore meal times are pretty average, however, on the weekends, I find myself having midnight snacks [or in this case, post-midnight snacks] at 2 or 3 am in the morning. As expanded on below, I also hardly ever drink plain water. Thus, I am lacking in calcium, which is especially essential to me because A) I am still growing, and B) I am fairly short and therefore need all the calcium I can get. Although it is not surprising that I lack calcium, this project has really reinforced the fact that I need more through data and numbers, and has inspired me to start drinking milk everyday [like I am supposed to be doing anyway]. All these small [or not-so-small] issues with my diet are only exacerbated by the fact that I do not exercise regularly [despite my father having a major in P.E. – it’s pretty embarrassing] and actually dislike physical exertion as well as my family’s past medical history, which consists of at least 6 cases of cancer and 3 cases of heart disease, placing me at much, much higher risk of contracting either of these [or, God-forbid, both]. I’ve also realised that the only reason I am not overweight is because of my extremely lucky inheritance of my father’s ridiculous metabolism developed from his years of P.E. His waist is thinner than mine. On a whole, I’ve learnt to understand the importance of proper eating habits and diet, neither of which I currently possess.
No, because for one thing, I do not eat fruits at all and hardly ever eat vegetables. This is quite hard to notice in my both my RDDA analysis and Meal Diet Record, especially since firstly, some of the food indicated [e.g. beef hor fun or roast duck noodles] invariably contain vegetables of some sort and it is thus assumed I eat them [I don’t], and secondly, that it is not reflected in my RDDA analysis except for a lack of dietary fibre. I also eat a lot of junk food, as shown in my 3 Day Meal Record, in which I eat [an approximate amount, it’s probably greater] at least half a packet of potato chips per day. I find that there is always a packet of chips in my room [though I hardly ever know how they got there], and thus, I am always eating them. Never have I given a thought to how unhealthy it is. One last thing that is very obvious is that I do not drink plain water. This is probably one of the most ridiculous things about my diet, and I honestly have no excuse. I do not bring a water bottle to school, and I usually just buy bottled drinks from the canteen [100 Plus and Ice Lemon Tea], leading to an exorbitant amount of non-plain water drinks in school alone. It only gets worse from there – when I go out, I always buy or order Coca Cola or its equivalent, when I’m at home, I either drink canned Coca Cola [or various variations thereof] or F&N juice drinks of varying flavours. These drinks are very high in sugar and extremely unhealthy, especially in such large amounts.
The tools are helpful in the sense that they give numbers and data and use a set standard that is consistent and official to compare our current health with what we can attain. The tools can be trusted, because they are created and set-up by our government, and thus are more likely to provide accurate and objective information on health standards. The tools are useful in keeping track of how you are managing your own health with data that you can update and change.
The meal of brown rice is healthy due to its unmilled nature. To produce white rice, hte outermost layers of the rice are removed until the endosperm is revealed - which is white. Many vitamins and minerals are lost during this polishing and removal, such as Vitamins B1, B3, iron, fibre, fatty acids, bran rice oil [useful in lowering LDL cholesterol] and magnesium - thus this brown, or unpolished rice, is much healthier than white rice as it contains all these vitamins and minerals in its outer layers.
2) Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
3) Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
4) Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
I have learnt that my eating habits are definitely not healthy - I realised that I do eat a lot, having an average of 5 meals a day on weekdays and 6 or 7 on weekends, which is due to the I’ve also inordinate amount of snacks I eat [on average a packet of chips per day]. Given this incessant snacking, I was actually surprised at the fact that I had not exceeded the recommended allowances by very much except for my sodium and fat intakes, which is common in almost everyone. However, even if my results weren’t as bad as I thought they would be, I definitely need to improve upon my eating habits. Secondly, I snack constantly and eat a lot of junk food, even late at night and early in the morning, and also at very strange timings – the three day analysis was conducted on weekdays, therefore meal times are pretty average, however, on the weekends, I find myself having midnight snacks [or in this case, post-midnight snacks] at 2 or 3 am in the morning. As expanded on below, I also hardly ever drink plain water. Thus, I am lacking in calcium, which is especially essential to me because A) I am still growing, and B) I am fairly short and therefore need all the calcium I can get. Although it is not surprising that I lack calcium, this project has really reinforced the fact that I need more through data and numbers, and has inspired me to start drinking milk everyday [like I am supposed to be doing anyway]. All these small [or not-so-small] issues with my diet are only exacerbated by the fact that I do not exercise regularly [despite my father having a major in P.E. – it’s pretty embarrassing] and actually dislike physical exertion as well as my family’s past medical history, which consists of at least 6 cases of cancer and 3 cases of heart disease, placing me at much, much higher risk of contracting either of these [or, God-forbid, both]. I’ve also realised that the only reason I am not overweight is because of my extremely lucky inheritance of my father’s ridiculous metabolism developed from his years of P.E. His waist is thinner than mine. On a whole, I’ve learnt to understand the importance of proper eating habits and diet, neither of which I currently possess.
No, because for one thing, I do not eat fruits at all and hardly ever eat vegetables. This is quite hard to notice in my both my RDDA analysis and Meal Diet Record, especially since firstly, some of the food indicated [e.g. beef hor fun or roast duck noodles] invariably contain vegetables of some sort and it is thus assumed I eat them [I don’t], and secondly, that it is not reflected in my RDDA analysis except for a lack of dietary fibre. I also eat a lot of junk food, as shown in my 3 Day Meal Record, in which I eat [an approximate amount, it’s probably greater] at least half a packet of potato chips per day. I find that there is always a packet of chips in my room [though I hardly ever know how they got there], and thus, I am always eating them. Never have I given a thought to how unhealthy it is. One last thing that is very obvious is that I do not drink plain water. This is probably one of the most ridiculous things about my diet, and I honestly have no excuse. I do not bring a water bottle to school, and I usually just buy bottled drinks from the canteen [100 Plus and Ice Lemon Tea], leading to an exorbitant amount of non-plain water drinks in school alone. It only gets worse from there – when I go out, I always buy or order Coca Cola or its equivalent, when I’m at home, I either drink canned Coca Cola [or various variations thereof] or F&N juice drinks of varying flavours. These drinks are very high in sugar and extremely unhealthy, especially in such large amounts.
The tools are helpful in the sense that they give numbers and data and use a set standard that is consistent and official to compare our current health with what we can attain. The tools can be trusted, because they are created and set-up by our government, and thus are more likely to provide accurate and objective information on health standards. The tools are useful in keeping track of how you are managing your own health with data that you can update and change.
The meal of brown rice is healthy due to its unmilled nature. To produce white rice, hte outermost layers of the rice are removed until the endosperm is revealed - which is white. Many vitamins and minerals are lost during this polishing and removal, such as Vitamins B1, B3, iron, fibre, fatty acids, bran rice oil [useful in lowering LDL cholesterol] and magnesium - thus this brown, or unpolished rice, is much healthier than white rice as it contains all these vitamins and minerals in its outer layers.
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