Sample Nutrition Project Paper

Nutrition Project The National Standard (the final rule) is a certain guideline to follow in assisting someone to have a healthy lifestyle. The final rule wants you to have updates on the meal patterns and nutrition standards for your health in hopes that your health will align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This rule requires you to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat free and low-fat fluid milk in your daily intake. Also, the rule requires you to reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in meals. Finally, meet the nutrition needs for yourself within your calorie requirements. These improvements to your diet are based on recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and are hopeful expected to enhance the diet and …show more content…
According to the final rule and me calculating my diet from the USDA website, supertracker, my diet needs to change because it compares to the final rule in some ways but not in others, overall it does not follow the national standards. According to supertracker, my daily caloric intake should be 2000 calories, since I am 6’7 to 6’8 weighing 330 pounds. Also, the supertracker informed me that I needed to consume 6 oz. of grain, 2 ½ cups of vegetables, 2 cups of fruits, 3 cups of dairy, and 5 ½ oz. of protein. Also, the supertracker limited me to having 258 empty calories.
For the first day, 11/9/15, for breakfast I consumed a total of 1300 calories. At breakfast time I ate a bowl of cheesy grits, 4 sausage links, scrambled eggs, and drank 2 cups of powerade. Then at lunch time I consumed 928 calories. At lunch time I ate a cheeseburger with French fries and drank 2 cups of sweet tea. Then for dinner I consumed 2415 calories. At dinner time I ate a chicken quesadilla, 2 rice and bean burritos, and a soft taco, and drank sweet tea. For the end result, the empty calorie count I had was 1304 calories instead of