- Track your daily intake by completing a 5-day diet diary. This diary will be inclusive of all foods/fluids consumed over a five day period. Be honest, this assignment will not be graded on the basis of healthy eating habits, rather your ability to ascertain through reflection and self-analysis ways in which you can improve or maintain healthy eating habits and move toward improved nutritional health. Over the next few weeks you will learn about essential nutrients. Essential nutrients are vital to healthy development. By learning more about the function and sources of each of these nutrients, you will better be able to care for not only yourself, but also assist others to move toward good nutritional health in you nursing practice.
- Go to the following online resource:
www.myfitnesspal.com - You will have to create a profile for login. This is free. (Click on the “Food” tab to enter foods from your daily diet diary.) If you know of another online resource that will give you the same type of information, you are not limited to this resource.
- Enter the information you gathered from your 5-Day Diet Diary. You may enter the information daily or at the end of the 5 day period.
- Evaluate your intake of essential nutrients; don’t forget about fluid balance. Water is an essential nutrient.
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