Dietary Analysis

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Jul 16, 2010

Man I hate when they ask all of this highly personal information -- it is none of their business.

You can track this stuff nicely at Calorie Counter, Diet Tracking, Food Journal, Nutrition Facts at The Daily Plate

It is free to use it and it tracks the major classes. Another one is Calorie Counter Database - Free Online Diet Program

Good luck. This is just the beginning of the invasive questions. We had to report on our CAD risks including BMI, if we had diabetes, our exercise profile and lipids. Unreal.

choc0late · Jul 17, 2010

I did that for my nutrition class as well. The program they are going to make you use is a bit different than what dolce gave you, but it will be easy enough to fill in when you have the right info. You need your serving size, and calories per serving type thing. It's real easy. I also had to answer a series of questions from that information that the teacher gave us. It turned into maybe a 3-5 page report where you analysed the vitamins and nutrients of what you ate. But the program gives you all that based off your serving size of the item. But yeah, use any of those sites or another is sparkpeople.com.

DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2010

They gave you a specific program to do this?

They all work from amount consumed so I am not seeing a difference -- unless you are tracking vitamins and minerals too.

Why if you are looking something that includes micronutrient tracking, wouldn't you use USDA - CNPP - MyPyramid Tracker ?

KANZ10 · Jul 17, 2010

Thank you choColate and Dolvce Vita for those sites and yes this assignment is about 7 pages and all the answers to the Question will be based from that table I am so so so stress about it once again thank you.

KANZ10:)

choc0late · Jul 17, 2010

Yeah, we could have bought the program or used it at our library which I did. It's a template that you just enter the amount and name and the program fills in all the vitamins and minerals. We had to print that report out then the teacher gave us questions to answer. But we had to record our three days on our own on just a sheet of plain paper. But I was a member (free) at sparkpeople at the time so just tracked my three days there then inputted into the program assigned. Our questions would be like "How much vitamin C did you average? Was it high/low, what would too high/ too low cause" type stuff. I took it 2 years ago so I don't fully recall but it was easy enough to do.

KANZ10 · Jul 18, 2010

Hi chOcolate yes reading my assignment they have given a web site to log onto and work from that.......thanks:up:

KANZ10

HM2VikingRN, RN · Jul 18, 2010

US Department of Agriculture also has a my food pyramid tracker at http://www.mypyramid.gov/

bernbabybern820 · Jul 18, 2010

I would use the mypyramid one that Dolce/Viking gave out for ease of use.

If you want to get fancy you can use FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal . They have all these fancy looking pie charts that you can print out.

Birry · Jul 18, 2010

I would use the mypyramid one that Dolce/Viking gave out for ease of use.
If you want to get fancy you can use FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal . They have all these fancy looking pie charts that you can print out.

I'm taking nutrition over summer and we had to use FitDay. It's pretty comprehensive, but finding foods with the right nutritional values was kind of tricky. Most of them were pretty close, though.