Nutritional Analysis and Dietary Guidelines

Nutrition and Diet
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................4
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Factors which strongly influence on food choice and dietary habits ........................................4
1.2 Categorizing food according to type and nutritional contents...................................................5
1.4 Assessing key methods to measure nutritional status of chosen examples of food ..................6
1.3 Nutritional requirement of groups.............................................................................................7
TASK 2 ................................................................................................................................................8
a. Tabular representation for showing the relationship between diet and health.............................8
b. Short and long term physiological and psychological effects of alcohol on the human body as
well as exploration of the effect of alcohol on the hospitality industry ........................................10
c. Accessing the use of diet in the treatment of several medical conditions..................................11
TASK 3 ..............................................................................................................................................11
a. Planning, developing and analyzing healthy palatable meals for given groups ........................11
b) Modifying existing meals and menus to implement healthy eating principles.........................13
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................14
a. Evaluation of the effects of production methods on the nutritional value of food....................14
b) Comparing different nutritional principles involved in the given scenario...............................15
c. Analysing materials that provides nutritional information and promotes concepts of healthy
eating..............................................................................................................................................15
conclusion...........................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................17
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Index of Tables
Table 1: Categorizing food according to type and nutritional contents................................................5
Table 2: Nutritional requirement of children under the age of 11........................................................7
Table 3: Nutritional requirement of young women aged 15-18...........................................................7
Table 4: Nutritional requirement of gardeners who do heavy manual work .......................................8
Table 5: Meal plan for elderly and anaemic woman...........................................................................11
Table 6: Lunch meal plan for vegetarian teenager on low income.....................................................12
Table 7: Tea Menu for children's birthday party.................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Diet is a sum of food which is consumed by a human being on a regular basis. The diet
habits are varying from person to person and the intention behind consuming the food is health as
well as weight management. On the other hand, nutrition is a part of food which has prevent the
body from diseases (Andrieu, Darmon and Drewnowski, 2006). There are six types of nutritions
present in a food: carbohydrates, vitamins, water, fibres, minerals and fat. In a simple word,
nutrition is simply eating a diet food and it is important for the growth of body and living a healthy
life. The following research has based on diet and nutrition. To understand its importance in human
life, a large school for girls between the ages of 8 to 18 year. The aspects that will cover under the
present research are factors influencing on food choice and dietary habits, different types of
nutrition contents in food and many other things (Braegger and et.al., 2013).
TASK 1
1.1 Factors which strongly influence on food choice and dietary habits
There are various factors which has strongly influenced the food choice and dietary habits of
a person. The major influencing elements are socio-economic, culture and psychological factors.
Socio-economic factors: The food choices have varied with social classes which define the
nutrition level. The role of socio-economic factor in influencing food choices and dietary habits can
be understood by an example. The higher social class group have believed in intake healthier diets
such as increase consumption of fruits, meat, wholemeal food, raw vegetables etc (Craig, and
Mangels, 2009). The reason behind intake such type of food on regular basis is their high
educational level and increase awareness towards the health.
Culture factors: The evidence shows that people beliefs, traditions and values are the major factor
which influenced the food choice and dietary habits. For example, when a person visit to a new
place then he adopt the new food habits. It has directly made the impact on nutrition status in body
and the health of a person (Flint and et.al., 2012). On the other hand, in the other hand, the culture
of ready to eat food has increased. Many of the people and specially young generations have
consumed more junk and fast food on regular basis. Such types of foods are not comes under
nutritional food and affect the health of person in negative way. Along with this, most of the people
are like to eat different variety of foods with the intention of taste preferences (Forbes, 2012).
Psychological factors: This factor affect the consumption of food according to the age, use of
drugs, health status, body size, sex, level of physical activities etc. This has directly made the
impact on selection of food as well as health condition of a people. For example, a person is ill then
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