Food Intake Analysis - Washburn High School

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Food Intake Analysis

Health 1

Initial Directions:

Go to http://www.supertracker.usda.gov/

Create Your Profile

Step 1 Personalize Your Profile

Step 2 Register to Save Your Profile

Fill out New User Profile (Use your school computer login username/password/e-mail)

Step 3 Click “Submit” to View your Plan

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Go to http://www.supertracker.usda.gov/

Login (School login should be used after the initial sign-up)

Food Tracker

(Note: You will need to change the DATE in this window for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 entries)

“Type your food in here” (left side of screen)- from your handwritten list (Choose a food that comes as close as you can to the item on your list)

Food Details

Select both “Serving Size” and “When you ate it – Mealtime” Click ADD

*After you have entered all foods eaten on that day – PRINT the page

Physical Activity Tracker

Type in your activity here, enter duration and choose the days you do the activity

My Reports

(After you have logged all your food for 3 days - Print out these reports –

You must remember the dates you entered your foods)

1. Food groups and calories

2. Nutrients Reports

3. Physical Activity

Add the Food Tracker Print outs from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

Analysis Paper

Compile and analyze all the data print outs and write a (4) paragraph paper.

Introduction: Discuss how you gathered the information.

Healthy /Unhealthy choices: Write one paragraph based on your findings.

Areas to Improve: What nutrients did you not get enough of in your diet?

Summary: How will you improve and what new choices will you try in order to improve?

Name __________________________

Hour ___________________________

Analysis of Food Intake

Directions:

After monitoring your food intake for three days, and completing your food journal, reflect on your results. What food choices did you make that were good? What food choices were bad ones? What areas of your diet could you use a little help? How are you going to make your diet healthier?

Form a response to the questions asked above. Reflect on your food intake journal, as well as the results given online. Determine how you can have a healthier diet and balance your blood sugars by eating PFC at every meal/snack. Be sure to state specific examples in your in your paper.

Food Analysis Rubric:

Assignment

Part 1

Description Points

Possible

Points

Received

Handwritten Journal

Food Tracker Printouts

Day 1 – Day 3

(completed and recorded/PFC)

(3)

Days 1-3

(What date did you enter data?)

5

15

Part 2

https://www.SuperTracker.usda.gov/

My Reports Printouts

(complete after computer journal entry on day 3)

(3)

1. Food Groups and

Calories

2. Nutrients

3. Physical Activity

5

5

5

Part 3

Write Your Analysis Paper

Use the (3) above reports

(1 paragraph for each >)

Discuss how you gathered the information.

Good/Bad Choices

5

5

Final Grade

Areas to Improve

Deficiencies/Excesses

How to Improve

New choices

5

5

55

Date

Day

1, 2, 3

3/5

Name __________________________________________________________________ Hour _______________________

Daily Food Hand-Written Journal (3) Days

Directions: Record everything you eat and drink. Record the date, food and beverages consumed, and an estimate of the serving size and number of servings eaten. Indicate whether it was breakfast, lunch dinner or a snack. Using the letters PFC for nutrients

(P=Protein/ F= Fat / C =Carbohydrate), indicate which of these nutrients were consumed during each time you ate a meal/snack. A goal is to eat a P, F and C for every snack or meal you eat. Record what you did for exercise and how many minutes did you did it for continuously

Food Serving Size

1 cup

# of

Serving

1.5

Breakfast,

Lunch, Dinner or Snack breakfast

Proteins

Fats

Carbs

P, F, C

C, P Oatmeal

1 cup .5 breakfast C, P, F

Exercise

Type /

Time in minutes

Biked /

30 minutes

Milk

Maple Syrup 1 tsp. 2 breakfast C

Date

Day

1, 2, 3

Food Serving Size # of

Serving

Breakfast,

Lunch, Dinner

or Snack

Proteins

Fats

Carbs

P, F, C

Exercise

Type /

Time in minutes

Date

Day

1, 2, 3

Food Serving Size # of

Serving

Breakfast,

Lunch, Dinner

or Snack

Proteins

Fats

Carbs

P, F, C

Exercise

Type /

Time in minutes

Date

Day

1, 2, 3

Food Serving Size # of

Serving

Breakfast,

Lunch, Dinner

or Snack

Proteins

Fats

Carbs

P, F, C

Exercise

Type /

Time in minutes

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