Please submit Part III of the Dietary Analysis Project: Correcting Menus and Reanalyzing here.
Note: This may be submitted as a Word document if you have not yet started to combine this project into a PowerPoint.
Note: If needed, please review the project Overview in Week 3.
Correcting Menus and Reanalyzing
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Next you will be correcting the menu so that it will meet the recommendations. You will need to make changes to foods. To do so, simply enter your corrected menu on a in Supertracker. That way you can access both the original analysis (Part II) and this re-analysis (Part III) as you prepare your final project. You’ll also be able to review both menus and charts/graphs seamlessly using this approach. Please ask questions in the Ask the Professor area, as they arise.
To create the corrected menu, check your original menu first for problems. If, for example, the original menu did not have 3 distinct meals and 2-3 distinct snacks, be sure to include those missed items in the corrected menu. You want the corrected menu to meet with current nutrition recommendations for frequency of food consumption. It is not necessary that the corrected menu include items enjoyed by your subject or be realistic with respect to the preferences and lifestyle of your subject. It is more important that you can demonstrate how to improve upon problem areas in a diet and identify foods that are higher or lower in certain nutrients.
Once you have corrected the menu with the changes you think will make this meet the guidelines for your person (based on their height, weight, age), you are ready to reanalyze. Make sure you are analyzing the intake for a new day and not averaging this with the original intake analyzed back in Part II (Week 4).
If any nutrient is still not meeting needs, you will need to work on making corrections so that your menu meets the criteria listed before. If changes are made, you will need to run this information again. Look and see which nutrients are too high or too low. Think about which foods on the menu are contributing these nutrients and start with changes there.
Just a reminder, if you do need to make changes to the corrected menu, a new profile, nor date, does not need to be created. Just EDIT the information for the same day you already entered. This will save you a lot of time and will eliminate getting an average of two menus.
To be considered a corrected menu, the following should be true:
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*PLEASE NOTE: If the person you are creating a menu for has very high calorie needs, you will likely need to exceed 200% for many of the vitamins and minerals because you will need a higher amount of total food provided to meet the calorie needs. Just make sure that the macro-nutrients are still within range, even at the higher calorie level. If you have a menu where the calorie needs are 2800+ you will be graded based on 300% instead of 200% for the high end of the range. Please refer back to your Nutrient Intake Report.
Sample Nutrient Report
*This plan is based on a 2200 Calorie allowance.
Nutrients Target Average Eaten Status Total calories 2200 calories 1631 calories Less than 100 calories below Protein (g)*** 46 g 108 g OK Protein (% calories)*** 10 – 35% calories 27% calories OK Carbohydrate (g)*** 130 g 229 g OK Carbohydrate (% calories)*** 45 – 65% calories 56% calories OK Dietary fiber 25 g 36 g OK Total fat 20 – 35% calories 22% calories OK Saturated fat < 10% calories 6% calories OK Monounsaturated fat no daily target or limit 7% calories no daily target or limit Polyunsaturated fat no daily target or limit 6% calories no daily target or limit Linoleic acid (g)*** 12 g 9 g Under Linoleic acid (% Calories)*** 5 – 10% calories 5% calories OK α-linolenic acid (g)*** 1.1 g 0.7 g Under α-linolenic acid
(% calories)*** 0.6 – 1.2% calories 0.4% calories Under Omega 3 – EPA no daily target or limit 746 mg no daily target or limit Omega 3 – DHA no daily target or limit 1059 mg no daily target or limit Cholesterol < 300 mg 331 mg over Minerals Target Average Eaten Status Calcium 1000 mg 1044 mg OK Potassium 4700 mg 3692 mg under 78.6% Sodium** < 2300 mg 2372 mg over Copper 900 µg 1806 µg OK 201% Iron 18 mg 19 mg OK Magnesium 310 mg 428 mg OK Phosphorus 700 mg 1914 mg Over 273% Selenium 55 µg 180 µg Over 327% Zinc 8 mg 12 mg OK Vitamins Target Average eaten Status Vitamin A 700 µg RAE 881 µg RAE OK Vitamin B6 1.3 mg 2.5 mg OK Vitamin B12 2.4 µg 9.6 µg over 400% Vitamin C 75 mg 35 mg under 47% Vitamin D 15 µg 20 µg OK Vitamin E 15 mg AT 10 mg AT under 67% Vitamin K 90 µg 66 µg under 73% Folate 400 µg DFE 396 µg DFE OK Thiamin 1.1 mg 1.6 mg OK Riboflavin 1.1 mg 2.6 mg over 236% Niacin 14 mg 34 mg over 243% Choline 425 mg 460 mg OK
Information About Dietary Supplements
** If you are African American, hypertensive, diabetic, or have chronic kidney disease, reduce your sodium to 1500 mg a day. In addition, people who are age 51 and older need to reduce sodium to 1500 mg a day. All others need to reduce sodium to less than 2300 mg a day.
*** Nutrients that appear twice (protein, carbohydrate, linoleic acid, and α-linolenic acid) have two separate recommendations:
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