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Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet
To obtain optimal health, it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness.
In this three-part worksheet, you identify the five components of health-related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition.
Part 1: Five Components of Health Related
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5. How could the recipe be altered to include more essential nutrients?
More nutrients can be included if the person wished it, but honestly I cant think or see of any other nutrients that are needed with this dish.
6. Do you consider this a healthy meal? If not, what is a healthy alternative?
Yes, I do consider this a healthy meal.
Part 3: Nutrition Questions
Respond to the following questions in 75 to 125 words each:
1. Do you find it easy or difficult to determine the nutritional value of food? What are some methods to help you more easily determine the nutritional values of food?
This dish it was kind of difficult to determine the nutritional values. What threw me off was the calcium portion. I had to use the internet to figure out that parsley was where the calcium came from. Before today I had no idea that parsley was another source of calcium. The onion also, was something I was unaware of that had vitamin C in it. I was always told by physical education teachers that it was just good for the heart, nothing else.
2. What environmental, economic, and psychosocial factors influenced your food and drink choices today?
There was a dinner party I was invited to a few weeks ago by some close friends. This happened to be what they had served that night. I always knew that my friends were health nuts and always watched what they had eaten. I was convinced that they were straight vegans and did not consume any type of
In this assignment I will be describing the characteristics of nutrients and the benefits to the body.
Q7: What is your recommendation to management regarding the new complete meal product for 1967?
This food product includes rice, soy, vegetables, a vegetarian-based chicken flavoring, and a vitamin and mineral mix. Food scientists continue to update the formula.
2.Evaluate the lack of nutrients we obtain from school lunches and the poor quality in the foods showing it’s the opposite of healthy for us.
Describe ways to resolve any difficulties or dilemmas about the choice of food and drink.
However the individual hardly ever ate breakfast which isn’t good for her as she will feel tiered throughout the day. In order to avoid that I gave her a breakfast that are high in fiber along with foods that she likes. The tables are both shown below:
Nutrition is an important complement of any physical fitness program. The main dietary goal for active individual is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health and fitness or sports performance.
S. R. is satisfied with her current weight of 113 lb., without food allergies, stating “I don’t limit the types of food that I eat, I use portion control and eat three meals and to snacks a day to maintain my health” (personal communication, August 20, 2010). The primary source of protein in her diet comes from fish, she balances her diet with several servings of fruit and milk daily. Organ meats are eaten regularly as part of her cultural heritage. Beef tongue, fish eyes, chicken liver and gizzards are among the organ meats that she consumes weekly. The primary way of cooking meets is by boiling, using ground pepper, chili powder and chili peppers for seasoning. Filipino comfort porridge, arroz ca is eaten in S. R. family when they are feeling ill or run down, it consist of chicken and rice (personal communica-tion, August 20, 2010).
There was however, 8% of Calcium and Iron. In the ingredients, they are sectioned off into three sections. The creamy gravy with white meat chicken section has water , cooked white meat chicken, soybean oil, modified corn starch, less than 2% of salt,
1. Have you ever done cardiovascular exercise? If yes, what did you do? If no, why not?
Making sure nutritional needs become a part of any lifestyle requires understanding exactly what the body needs to obtain and maintain optimal health. The recording food intake for three days provides many areas of nutrition that I am more aware of that before; this includes protein, carbohydrate, lipid, and fiber intake needs. Meeting the nutritional needs of the human body helps to ensure a healthy lifestyle that is free of disease and illness.
2. During this portion of the assignment the parent/student will create a healthy meal with snacks using the food pyramid, giving one or more example why it is a healthy choice or not a healthy choice.
ural ingredients, you can keep this dish as nutritional as a meal that offers little
The green small crunchy tree- like shaped vegetable doesn’t make me feel guilty about my favorite meal because every bite is filled with specks of broccoli so the health factor is definitely included. I know I’m getting my proper amount of vegetables. The succulent tan chewy mushrooms provides an excellent source of potassium, also an interesting fact (mushrooms helps with migraine headaches.) The sundried tomatoes are sparingly sprinkled throughout the dish because the flavor is quite intense, concentrated and slightly salty so a little goes along way. Many vegetables give pasta the picture perfect look.
This research was done as a Student at Utah Valley University, using the University Research Website, other Online Sources, and various College Textbooks related to nutrition.