Diet Project Narrative

Diet Project Narrative

Human Nutrition

Skill Area: Nutrition

Assignment Title: Diet Project Narrative 

What I learned: 

This project helped me to discover how to calculate energy requirements and look at dietary guidelines to determine proper dietary intakes. I also learned how keeping food records can cause you to eat differently, in my case less than usual. 

Reflection to assignment:

This assignment was very interesting to figure out how I ate and how I can improve my nutritional status. I enjoyed being able to do a nutrition assessment on myself before having a client to perform the assessment on. 

Relevance to the profession:

This assignment was very relevant to the dietetics profession because it integrated the use of calculating energy requirements and energy intake. The way I calculated my energy intake was by inputting all of the foods I ate into a program called Diet Analysis. This shows that I have the ability to use different diet programs to compute a nutrient analysis. It also allowed me to discover ways to improve my intake based on vitamin and mineral consumption.