Assignment: Fat Intake Analysis

For the Unit 4 Assignment, you will analyze your fat intake based upon the food log created in Unit 2. The Assignment questions will assist you in analyzing your type of fat and amount of fat intake as well as give you the opportunity to identify changes to make to meet the recommended quality and quantity of fat in your diet.

Step 1

Review a tutorial of this Assignment.

Use the iProfile diet analysis software to create PDFs of the following reports for a single day. If possible, choose a day that your fat intake (total, saturated, or trans) was NOT within the guidelines.

1. Intake compared to DRI report (you will need to save and submit this report)

2. Calories from fat (create through the single nutrients option)

3. Calories from saturated fat (create through the single nutrients option)

4. Trans fat (create through the single nutrients option)

5. Monounsaturated fat (create through the single nutrients option)

6. Omega-3 fatty acids (create through the single nutrients option)

Step 2:

Answer the following questions in the Unit 4 Assignment template using the information from the reports created in Step 1:

1. How many fat calories should you consume in a day?

2. Did you consume too many or too few of your calories from fat?

3. How many of your calories came from saturated fat?

4. Did you consume too many of your calories from saturated fat?

5. Did you consume any trans fats?

6. Did you consume any monounsaturated fats?

7. Did you consume any omega-3 fatty acids?

Step 3:

In the same Unit 4 Assignment template, answer the following questions. The goal is to make improvements to your fat intake based on your responses to Questions 1-7 in Step 2.

1. Identify three foods that you can eliminate from your diet to reduce your bad fat intake.

2. Identify three foods that you can add to your diet to incorporate healthy fats into your diet. Use the data contained in the reports generated for Step 1 to guide you in modifying/removing foods so that your fat intake (total, saturated fat, and trans fat) will fall within the recommended intakes. Do not forget to consider the consumption of healthy fats in your diet.

3. Write a response (200 words minimum) in the Unit 4 Assignment template to the question "What foods did you replace and why?" Make sure to include an explanation about why it is important to stay within the guidelines for fat intake and why healthy fats are beneficial.

References

Grosvenor, M., & Smolin, L. (2015). Visualizing nutrition: Everyday choices, (3nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2015). I-Profile Mobile (version 3.0).