Describe your current eating patterns.

Diet Analysis Project- due April 6, 20201. Introductory Essay: Describe your current eating patterns. What time do you eat? Where do you eat? If you eat at home who shops for the food, who does the food preparation and who cooks the meal? What types of foods do you like and dislike? Why do you like or dislike foods? Do you make food selections based on religious, ethnic or medical reasons? Your introduction should be at least one page in length.2. Create a Medical Family Tree. Identify family members by their relationship not names. Include at least six relatives. If you do not have blood relatives list the people whom you grew up with, adoptive or foster family members. Indicate if any of these people have or have had any of the following:Heart disease Anemia Food Allergies CancerRenal disease Hypertension Osteoporosis ObesityStroke Gout Diabetes Other Medical Conditions3. Diet Records: Record your current eating habits. Diet records are to be kept for 7 days. (5 week days and 2 weekend days). Write down all the food and beverages you consume. Keep a running diet record with the time you ate, the food and beverage items, amounts of foods and beverages, where you were when you were eating, who you were with and your mood. Include the handwritten records in your report.The amounts of food and beverage items should be recorded in household measurements i.e., teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, or ounces. If you are familiar with Metric measurements you can use these as well. Piece or slice is not acceptable. Food labels may be helpful. Use measuring cups and/or scales if you are unsure of a portion size. Nutrient information is available for many combination dishes, but you may have to breakdown these dishes into their ingredients.We will be using Cronometer: https://cronometer.com/ to obtain your nutrient analysis. See additional Cronometer instructions attached. Using your handwritten food intake records you will enter the data into the Cronometer Diary. Try to find food items that match what you consumed in your diet. Carefully, enter the serving amounts. DO NOT ADD ANY VITAMINS, SUPPLEMENTS OR EXERCISE4. You will use the Nutrition Report (7 Day Average) as the basis of your report. You will discuss your intake compared to the goals for Energy, Carbs, Fiber, Sugars, Fat, Monosat, Polysat, Omega 3 & 6, Saturated, Trans-fat, Cholesterol, Protein and all Vitamins and Minerals (including nutrients that are within normal range). Include all of the information below in your discussion for each nutrient:Recommended intake: RDA, AI, Use the inside of your textbook to get this info. Macronutrient Targets are on the Nutrition Report (7 Day Average) for Energy (Calories), Protein, Carbs, Fat.What was your average intake of the nutrient?Benefits/Functions of the nutrientFood sources of the nutrientDangers of excessive intake and inadequate intake – health consequencesAre you are meeting, exceeding or deficient in relation to your recommended requirements? Identify foods you ate that you could reduce, change or eat more of to meet your recommended intake. Discuss suggestions on how you can improve your diet. List specific foods that you could add/delete to correct excesses and deficiencies in your diet. Comment on individual days if they are unusual and/or skew your data. Are weekend days different? Comment on your eating habits, location and mood. You have the Diary Reports for each day and the Servings Report to refer to specific foods eaten and how they impacted your intake.There are no targets for Sugars and Saturated Fats. You will do your own calculations for the targets. A maximum of 10% of your total calories should come from added sugars. The Cronometer sugar data includes natural and added sugars. Calculating your sugar and saturated fat target will allow you to evaluate your data. Your daily target calories are called ‘Burned’ in Cronometer. EX:For Sugar target use Daily calories=1700, take 10%= 170 calories, Divide by 4cal/gm=42.5 grams.For Saturated Fats take Daily calories= 1700, take 7% = 119 calories, Divide by 9 cal/gm =13 grams.Include your calculations in your discussion.6. Write a menu to improve your intake: Using Cronometer, create one daily menu that meets 100% of the Macronutrients Targets and Sodium. Incorporate recommendations that you discussed above. Print the Diary Report.7. Conclusion: Write a summary of what you learned about your eating habits. What are the changes you will make to your diet to meet recommended intakes. Discuss any changes in eating habits relating to food preparation, eating behaviors, fitness etc. that may be beneficial to your nutritional assessment.Organization of Diet Analysis Project: (grade points)1. Cover Page (2) 7. Computer Reports:2. Table of Contents (2) Diary (7) Nutrition (5) Servings (5) 3. Introductory Essay (5) 8. Analysis and discussion of the reports (36) 4. Medical Family tree (5) 9. Menu Planner (10) 5. Hand written Food Intake Records 7 days (7) 10. Conclusion (12)6. Profile (2) 11. Bibliography (2) Order of Computer Reports from Cronometer:Nutrition Report- Your 7 Day AverageDiary Report – 7 DaysNutrient Data ReportCronometer: Create free account- do not purchase upgrade.You will get an email to validate your account. GO to Settings/Profile-enter info.Go to targets- set Macros to Carb 50, Fat 30 and Protein 20. Scroll down and select weight goal.Select one of the following: Maintain weight, Gain Weight or Lose .5lb/week. Do not select more than .5 lb – this will skew your data. You can set up a calorie amount- ask me about that setting if you want to do that.Go to Settings, select Display and scroll down to Highlighted Nutrients. Select Fiber, Iron, Calcium, Vit D, Omega 3, Omega 6 and Sodium.When you enter foods make sure to look at the amount – use the drop down menu to make the proper selections.Introduction to CRON-O-MeterCRON-O-Meter has four main screens that you can navigate using the four main tabs:Diary-The Diary screen is where you log all of your daily items you wish to track. You can track foods, exercise, metrics (such as your weight, blood pressure, temperature, etc), and you can keep personal notes.A summary of your daily nutrition is displayed at the bottom. You can see at a glance how well you are hitting each of your nutritional targets. By selecting individual items in your diary, you can also see how each item contributes to your targets.Trends-The Trends screen displays graphs and statistics on your aggregate data. You won’t see much here until you’ve logged your data for several days.Foods- The Foods screen lets you browse all of the foods and recipes in our database. You can also create your own custom foods and recipes here.Settings- Includes Account and Profile tabs. The Target tabs is where you can edit your nutritional targets and weight goal.Print out the following reports after you have entered all of your data:1.Profile: Go to the Profile Tab, Click on the Settings Tab. Right click on page and print.2.Diary- Use Print on your browser and print out your Diary for each of seven days. You will have 7 reports (2 pages each). You must enter your 7 day intake consecutively without any empty days in between.3.Nutrition Report: Go to the Trends Tab, click on the Nutrition Report Tab. Using your browser print the report- 2 pages. This is your 7 day average and is what you will discuss in your project. You can run this report on the final day of recorded intake (7th day) or you can unclick “including today” and you will have the previous 7 days. This report only analyzes 7 days entered consecutively- you cannot go back and run the report later.4.Servings Report: Go to Settings Tab, click on the Accounts Tab. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Select Export Data, then select Export Servings. You will see a CSV file download. To reduce the number of pages to print use the following settings: Open the columns to display contents. Shorten the nutrient names in the headers. B1 Thiamin (mg) to B1 (mg). Go to page layout and open Page Settings. Reduce margins on right and left to zero, reduce top and bottom margins to .5. On the sheet tab rows to repeat at top select the 1st row. Select gridlines. Number pages so that they are in order. Save as an excel file.Features of Cronometer:1.3 dots: You can copy previous day, copy current day, look at Daily Nutrition Summary2.Scroll top of screen to see Macro Nutrients and Highlighted Nutrients3.Tap Macronutrients to find highest contributor and list4.Tap on food item to see Nutritional info5.Scan food into data base with Barcode6.Add recipes- make sure to put in number of servings.