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Nutrition Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to make you more aware of your body and health.

Follow ALL instructions, and use this as a checklist before turning in your final copy!

• Calculate your daily calorie intake to maintain your current weight

• Keep a log of your food and beverage consumption for each day for a total of 7 days. The minimum that should be included in your document include the following for each day:
  • Each food/beverage
  • Calories for each food/beverage
  • Grams of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats for each food/beverage (Most websites will give you much more information.)
  • Daily Total Input (total calories), total grams of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats

• Keep a log of your water intake for each day.

• Keep a log of your exercise for each day. Describe each exercise and the time involved.
• Use one of the following websites to find input (calories, carbohydrates, proteins, & fats) and output (calories burned for each exercise):
  • http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/
  • http://caloriecount.about.com/
  • http://nutridiary.com/
  • http://fitday.com/

All information needs to be logged within one of the nutrition journals on a website listed above (you may choose the one easiest to navigate). (Turn in the actual food log. Copy the food log from the website, and paste it into Microsoft Word.)

• Calculate percentages of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats for each day using the following formulas:
  • Convert grams of carbs, proteins, and fats to calories:
    • 4 x Grams of Carbs = Calories of Carbs
    • 4 x Grams of Proteins = Calories of Proteins
    • 9 x Grams of Fats = Calories of Fats
  • Calculate percentages:
    • (Calories of Carbs / Total Calories for the day) x 100 = ___% Carbs
    • (Calories of Proteins / Total Calories for the day) x 100 = ___% Proteins
    • (Calories of Fats / Total Calories for the day) x 100 = ___% Fats

(Check yourself: These percentages should = about 100 % unless you consumed alcohol.)

• Type a paragraph describing (in detail) what you learned from this assignment.