Hey, I'm Leirong from 209. Started this blog because of an Aesthetics PT about Food and Nutrition. Have fun viewing this site :)
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wild days
Reflections!//
Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 6:56 AM

During the course of this Performance Task, I have learnt many things about my eating habits.
Firstly, there is the excess of sodium in my diet (155% of the recommended amount!) which may raise the blood pressure in my blood vessels and result in hypertension, which increases the risk of stroke and heart attacks (OH NO! D:) To cut down on the amount of sodium, the most important change I would have to make is to reduce the addition of salt and flavouring into my food. I should try using natural seasoning and choose fresh food over processed foods.
There is also a lack of dietary fibre and calcium in my diet.I need to consume more fruits and vegetables to maintain a healthy diet with high dietary fibre, and also more calcium-enriched foods such as milk, tofu and other dairy products so that I can have healthy bones :D
I feel that my diet has been too meat-based and there are also huge consumptions of fats, oils, sugar and salt(i.e. Junk Food) which I should definitely cut down on. An alternative would be eating fruits and vegetables which contain high dietary fibre and would allow my diet to be much healthier. (Actually, I love fruits, but the school canteen doesn't exactly provide a variety D: That's why I resort to eating fruit tarts instead, but they contain mainly preserved fruits - aka canned peaches, which are rather harmful to our health. D: Therefore, I'm trying to consume more fruits at home now :D)
The suggested nutritional tools have been really useful to me in analysing my diet, and I have realized the harms of the junk food that I've been eating, and also the benefits of the foods which I should consume more. However, the HPB website doesn't include all foods that we consume! Which resulted in most of us having to omit that particular food in our diet,or to find a replacement for it, which in turn caused a rather inaccurate analysis in the end. In general, though, I feel that the tools have indeed be extremely helpful!
That's all for my reflections now. I'm certainly going to keep track of my diet now and watch what I eat after completing this PT!
Layout by Caye with colors from Colourlovers and the banners from TheFadingNight.
wild days
Reflections!//
Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 6:56 AM

During the course of this Performance Task, I have learnt many things about my eating habits.
Firstly, there is the excess of sodium in my diet (155% of the recommended amount!) which may raise the blood pressure in my blood vessels and result in hypertension, which increases the risk of stroke and heart attacks (OH NO! D:) To cut down on the amount of sodium, the most important change I would have to make is to reduce the addition of salt and flavouring into my food. I should try using natural seasoning and choose fresh food over processed foods.
There is also a lack of dietary fibre and calcium in my diet.I need to consume more fruits and vegetables to maintain a healthy diet with high dietary fibre, and also more calcium-enriched foods such as milk, tofu and other dairy products so that I can have healthy bones :D
I feel that my diet has been too meat-based and there are also huge consumptions of fats, oils, sugar and salt(i.e. Junk Food) which I should definitely cut down on. An alternative would be eating fruits and vegetables which contain high dietary fibre and would allow my diet to be much healthier. (Actually, I love fruits, but the school canteen doesn't exactly provide a variety D: That's why I resort to eating fruit tarts instead, but they contain mainly preserved fruits - aka canned peaches, which are rather harmful to our health. D: Therefore, I'm trying to consume more fruits at home now :D)
The suggested nutritional tools have been really useful to me in analysing my diet, and I have realized the harms of the junk food that I've been eating, and also the benefits of the foods which I should consume more. However, the HPB website doesn't include all foods that we consume! Which resulted in most of us having to omit that particular food in our diet,or to find a replacement for it, which in turn caused a rather inaccurate analysis in the end. In general, though, I feel that the tools have indeed be extremely helpful!
That's all for my reflections now. I'm certainly going to keep track of my diet now and watch what I eat after completing this PT!