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Assignment General Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is…
Assignment
General Instructions:
The purpose of this assignment is to allow you the opportunity to evaluate your current eating habits, plan strategies to improve them, implement these strategies for one day, and reflect on the changes. It is recommended that you work on this assignment after you have completed Modules 1 and 2. Note that completing everything will take several days
Canada’s Dietary Guidelines are important to this assignment, and are listed below:
Make it a habit to eat a variety of healthy foods each day.
Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods and protein foods.
Limit highly processed foods.
Make water your drink of choice.
Use food labels.
Be aware that food marketing can influence your choices.
Healthy eating habits are more than the foods you eat.
Be mindful of your eating habits.
Cook more often.
Enjoy your food.
Eat meals with others.
Part A: Personal Strategies using Canada’s Dietary Guidelines (10 marks)
Instructions
Develop one healthy eating strategy for each of the recommendation guidelines (1 – 5) listed below.
You will need a total of 5 strategies; one for each bulleted point. Each strategy is a specific plan for you that would improve your diet and lifestyle. Your strategies should be SMART: (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timely). Make sure you explain how they are ‘SMART.’
Follow the structure outlined in the Example below when describing your strategies.
Recommendation Guidelines:
Be mindful of your eating habits.
Use food labels.
Be aware that food marketing can influence your choices.
Cook more often
Eat meals with others.
Example:
The guideline is something you are going to aim for, and your strategy is the plan you are going to use to get there. I will use this guideline to demonstrate: “Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods and protein foods.” You will note that I use the first person in all my statements because this plan is mine personally.
My strategy to achieve the guideline is to eat more locally grown vegetables.
Part B: Be Mindful of Your Eating Habits (10 marks)
Instructions
Although you may have an idea of what you should eat, what you do eat may be influenced by a lot of different things.
Using a mind map like the template below, think about and itemize some of the reasons why you eat the way you do; the factors influencing your personal food choices. Determine whether these are positive or negative influences.
Explain how they might affect the success (or not) of the strategies you developed in Part A, in no more than 250 words. Then, choose and identify one strategy for which you think you’ll have the most success.
Part C: Implementation of One Strategy and Reflection (15 marks)
Instructions
Implement the strategy you developed which you identified as the one where you feel you would be most successful in achieving. You can implement this strategy for one day or longer.
Share your reflections on the strategy you implemented, in no more than 500 words. Some ideas for reflection include – but are not limited to – the following:
Describe how your appetite was affected by implementing the strategy. Discuss any cravings you had for certain foods or beverages.
Provide a list of the substitutions that you included in your diet. Discuss whether these substitutions were satisfactory. Did you have any difficulty finding certain foods? Discuss.
Did you feel you had enough food skills to achieve your strategy? (i.e. discuss how easy or difficult it was to follow a recipe, compare labels, etc.)
Anything else? For example, did you find you saved money, spent more or about the same? Or, did you find you had to tweak the strategy a little to improve it?
