CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1. Analyze how well your food intake for the day matches up to your MyPlate
recommendations (use the MyPlate Report). Did you meet your recommendations for
milk, meat and beans, vegetables, fruits, and grains?
By analyzing my food intake for the day, I found that I was not meeting the
recommendations for beans, vegetables, fruits, and grains. My intake of fruit was very
inadequate. I was consuming fruit less than three times a week. I had no intake of grains, and no
grains were present in my food. Vegetable intake is not too much or too little, basically current in
all my food.
2. Now analyze your food intake in terms of calories, fat, fiber, sugar, sodium, and
cholesterol (use the Bar Graph Report). How did you do in nutrient intake? What
nutrients did you get enough of? What nutrients do you need more of?
Through analysis, I found that I have a balanced intake of nutrients. Sugar, sodium, and
cholesterol, I consume less. And I think I need to supplement more in terms of vitamins,
minerals, and dietary fiber. I think calcium is one of the essential nutrients in the body. Calcium
helps maintain strong bones, but it also has many other functions. This includes support, healthy
muscle function, nerve signals, healthy heart rate, and standard cellular signals. It's easy to see
that calcium is essential to the day-to-day functioning of my body. In addition, a lack of calcium
in the diet can also adversely affect cognitive function, making me suffer when I am busy. Most
nutrients are multi-taskers, and vitamin C is no exception. Nothing disrupts a busy schedule more
than a cold. Being out of shape makes it challenging to complete my daily tasks. Vitamin C
supports the production of white blood cells, which help maintain health. In addition to
supporting a healthy immune system, vitamin C helps improve the body's metabolizable energy.
So, whether my goal is to maintain a healthy immune system or to support healthy energy levels,
my body must get enough vitamin C. Therefore, I will hold a balance of nutrients in my diet.
3. Consider how the socioecological model of health and wellness (see Chapter 1, Figure
1.2) relates to your own life. Describe the specific behavioral and environmental factors
that make it easier or more difficult for you to reach your goals of eating healthfully.
I believe several factors make it difficult for me to reach my dietary goals. The first is the
impact on the environment. In terms of the general environment, air pollution, water pollution,
soil pollution, noise pollution, disease transmission, etc., all threaten my health. When I was a
child living in poor sanitary conditions, many unfavorable breakdowns blocked my diet towards
a healthy path. The second is personal eating habits. The diet in our daily life has a substantial
impact on our health. In addition to healthy eating, I did not take proper meals and paid little
attention to my diet routine, so I did not develop good eating habits. Finally, the impact of sleep.
Sleep intensely impacts me; the repair and recovery of our whole-body cells are made during
sleep. But I often go to bed late, eat snacks, and sleep until the afternoon to get up. This led to
me skipping breakfast and lunch. I think it is a terrible eating habit.
4. Based on your analysis, do you think you need to make any dietary changes? Why or
why not? If you do need to make changes, what specific dietary modifications do you need
to make and how can you realistically achieve them? Consider both behavioral and
environmental strategies.
I think I desperately need to make a change in my diet. The first step to change is the
need for a plan. To develop good eating habits, I must have an overall diet plan. It is all about
which foods can be eaten regularly and which foods must be eaten sparingly. Then I will make a
reasonable diet plan according to my physical condition and follow the plan diet. Second, firm
goals. To develop good eating habits, I must also have a healthy goal. My goal is to have good
health, and my goal is to eliminate junk food, eat a balanced diet, and make sure that the intake
of each nutrient is up to standard. I also have to change my sleeping habits and insist on going
the bed early and rising. Three meals should be regular, three should be ordinary and
quantitative, and no late-night snacks. I also need to develop the habit of drinking more water
and refusing drinks containing high sugar. This way, I can change my eating habits step by step
to have a healthy body.