Grossmont College Health & Medical Healthy Eating Tasks

Part 1- Current Trends

1. finish the following “two quizzes”:
   • Healthy Eating (Links to an external site.)
     • This involves a series of 15 questions, which will provide a basic picture of your diet.
     • Directions:
       1. You will read each statement and based on the statement you will select either “Always”, “Sometimes”, or “Never”.
       2. Once you have finished, hit the “Get My Score!” button. Your result will immediately appear to the right of the button.
   • Life Expectancy Calculator (Links to an external site.)
     • This quiz will estimate your life expectancy based on a series of questions from the following categories: personal, lifestyle, nutrition, medical, family. Please note that this is only an estimate and that it cannot truly predict your life expectancy.
     • Directions:
       1. Click the yellow, underlined text that says “Take the Calculator”.
       2. You will need to input some personal information. I would recommend not including your exact birth date or zip code (you can use the school’s zip code, which is 92019). Once you have filled out this information, click the “Proceed to Calculator” button.
       3. finish the questions (there are 5 pages total, based on the aforementioned categories)
       4. Once you have completed the questions, the site will calculate an estimated life expectancy. It will ask you for your email and a password for the site. Again, I would recommend a junk email (although myself and other instructors have never experienced issues with this website).
2. Answer the following questions:
   1. In regard to the Healthy Eating Quiz:
      1. What score did you receive?
      2. What do you think impacted (whether positively or negatively) your score? Explain.
   2. In regard to the Life Expectancy Quiz:
      1. How long did the test say you were expected to live?
      2. What are two things you are currently doing that is shortening your life expectancy?
      3. What are two things that you can do to lengthen your life expectancy?

Part 2- Nutritional Needs

1. finish the following assessments:
   • Carbohydrate Calculator (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Fill out the information on your age, sex, height, weight, and amount of physical activity per week.
       2. Once you have completed this information, click the green “Calculate” button.
       3. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
   • Fat Intake Calculator (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Fill out the information on your age, sex, height, weight, and amount of physical activity per week.
       2. Once you have completed this information, click the green “Calculate” button.
       3. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
   • Protein Calculator (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Fill out the information on your age, sex, height, weight, and amount of physical activity per week.
       2. Once you have completed this information, click the green “Calculate” button.
       3. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
   • Mineral Deficiency Test (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Check each box in the A-J categories that apply to you.
       2. The site will keep a tally of the number of boxes you check off under each category. View the tally at the bottom of the page.
       3. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
   • Vitamin Test (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Click the blue button that says “Start Test”.
       2. For each group you will select all of the statements that apply to you.
       3. Progress through the quiz by clicking the blue “Next” button.
       4. On the last page click the “Evaluate test” button.
       5. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
   • Ideal Weight Calculator (Links to an external site.)
     • Directions:
       1. Fill out the information on your age, sex, and height.
       2. Once you have completed this information, click the green “Calculate” button.
       3. Either copy or paste your results into a separate document, or take a screenshot of your results (screenshot preferred).
2. Answer the following questions:
   1. Based on your results, which carbohydrate, fat, and protein goals interest you the most?
   2. Does your weight fall within the ideal weight that was calculated for you?
   3. What are limitations to BMI calculators?
   4. Which vitamins and minerals were you shown to be deficient in?
   5. Did any of these results come to a surprise to you or were you expecting these results?

Part 3- Tracking

1. Food Log:
   1. You will finish a 3-day food log. We are doing 3 days in order to get a basic understanding of our eating trends, although you are welcome to track for more days in order to have more robust data.. You can choose which consecutive days you finish the log; however, I would strongly encourage you to do the log between Monday and Friday since we are generally more consistent in our eating habits during these days (example- parties and other celebrations are more likely to occur on weekends).
   2. You will be responsible for recording a list of the foods/beverages from each meal/snack, as well as their serving sizes and nutrients (carbohydrates, fat, and protein levels, along with selected vitamins and minerals).
   3. finish your 3-day log.
      3. Answer the following analysis questions:
         1. What was your average (Links to an external site.) carbohydrate intake? Was this within your target range identified in Part 2? What do you think contributed, either positively or negatively, to these results?
         2. What was your average (Links to an external site.) fat intake? Was this within your target range identified in Part 2? What do you think contributed, either positively or negatively, to these results?
         3. What was your average (Links to an external site.) protein intake? Was this within your target range identified in Part 2? What do you think contributed, either positively or negatively, to these results?
         4. What was your average (Links to an external site.) sodium, potassium, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, and iron intake? Was this within your target range identified in Part 2? What do you think contributed, either positively or negatively, to these results?
         5. What are changes that you could implement in order to improve your nutrition?

         Submission

         The following elements need to be submitted in Canvas

         1. Answers to the Part 1 and Part 2 questions.
         2. Screenshots of results from Part 2 (you can either upload these one at a time or paste them all into one document).
         3. Part 3 food log
         4. Answers to Part 3 questions.