Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – March 4th – More Questions about the Diet Assignment
Here are more questions from students. Note that the last 2 questions are similar and I have received about 10 of these. Many people are getting caught up in little details and not worried about the main point of the assignment – to get a general picture of how and what you eat and what nutrients you are not getting enough of. It is important to keep a good record, find all of your foods in the database (hard to do), and to see in general and in comparison to the whole class how you are doing. Most important is to do a good job on answering the questions. Show that you thought about the assignment.
New Questions:
Question: Hello Mr. Dixon, I hope all is well. I had a quick question on the diet assignment for Nutrition and Health 255. On one of the documents it said not to put any supplements. I was wondering if whey protein powder counted as a supplement and whether or not I should include or exclude it from the diet assignment. It is a significant sector of protein I would be excluding so I was wondering that. Please let me know. Best,
Answer: Hi, Thank you for your email. Definitely include whey powder in your assignment! You might want to comment on it on the first slide. Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Question: Good morning Professor Dixon, I hope all is well. My name is ________ from your Nutrition and Health 255 course. I had a question concerning the calculations in the diet assignment when I finished inputting my information for the Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat – my overall Kcal was 2,284.4 which was higher than the one given in the analysis( 2,203 kcal ) . But when comparing my answer to your example on the PowerPoint your Kcal calculation is lower giving you a remaining percentage. I would really appreciate your feedback. Best Regards,
Answer: You did exactly right – don’t worry that the summed Calories don’t match the program’s value. No matter what this gives you a good idea of your % Calorie breakdown. By the way your fiber is great! Joe Dixon
Question: Dear Dr. Dixon, For some of the foods I ate, I could not find it in the database, so I used the “my custom food” option to manually put in all nutrition values based on what it says on the package. I am not sure if that is the reason why, but I did not get the red dots next to some of the nutrients like other have in their analysis and I am not sure if I am allowed to use those nutrients to answer questions (i.e. using biotin and iodine for lowest mineral). Also, I just started concerning whether I was allowed to manually input nutrition information in the first place…
In addition, I happened to have 0% DV for Biotin, Iodine, Chromium, Molybdenum, and Chloride. Is it okay if I list all of them as my lowest mineral based on %DV? I am attaching the powerpoint for the assignment that I am working on so that you can understand my question better by looking at my actual daily diet analysis. Thank you. Sincerely,
Answer: Hi, thank you for your email. Do not list Biotin, Iodine, Chromium, Molybdenum, and Chloride as your lowest because I have a red dot next to them so the values are not in the database so we do not know what our intake of them is. I am not sure why you do not have a red dot next to them. Also, do not list fluoride. That is fine you used the custom food option, although most of the foods in your list I think can be found in the database. Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Question: Hi Professor, I was trying to do my on the website provided but it very hard to do especially with the way I eat. I bodybuild so I have very specific foods with everything weighed out. I use myfitnesspal a lot and was wondering if I could use that platform instead of myfoodrecord.com. I provided pictures of the app and was wondering if you could take a look at it and tell me what you think. Thank you,
Answer: Hi, Thanks for emailing me and showing me the myfitnesspal data. I understand that it is hard to find things – but you have to use myfoodrecord.com. Does myfitnesspal have Vitamin K, Folate, Vitamin C, selenium etc.? I haven’t looked at it for a while. Anyway, it is good that we (all students) use the same database. If you want to also show myfitness pal data for the same day, that would be greatly appreciated because every semester someone does that and it is interesting to see how the numbers are similar or different for the main things. Joe Dixon
Question: Hello Professor, I was completing the calculations part of the diet assignment, and I realized that the remaining kcal is higher than 100% as shown below. Is this okay? Please let me know, thank you!
Answer: Hi, Thanks for your email. Yes, it is OK. It was off by about 1%. Believe me that is very close. And your carbs are very close to 50% of Calories!
Question: Good afternoon Professor, I hope you are doing well and staying safe. I have a problem calculating the total calories. For some reason, when I calculated the fats, protein and carbohydrates I got 1277.2 kcal in total but the data says I only consumed 1250 kcal. Is there an error in my calculation or the website is wrong? I saw the example slide and you actually calculated a lower a mount of kcal and had extra kcal left coming from somewhere else. But mine is kind of over and seems wrong? I attached my analysis slide below. Let me know! Thanks!
Answer: It is ok that there is a difference. Use the ones you added up for the percents. Thanks, Joe Dixon
Nutrition and Health – Spring 2021 – March 3rd- Questions about the Diet Assignment and Obesity Explosion Quizzes
Diet Assignment–
Question: Good morning professor Dixon, I am _________, part of your nutrition class that meets on Tuesday’s and fridays. I have a question regarding the diet assignment. When inputting the food that best relates to my daily meal plan, the total intake calorie came out to be super high (31k). I want my project to be as accurate as possible. What is it that you recommend I do in order to meet this requirements? Sincerely,
See Screen Shot with high Calories
Answer: Hi, You had to have made a mistake in some of the foods you entered into the program. You need to go back and check all of your foods and find the one – most likely a serving size is wrong – you super sized everything! LOL JLD
Hi, Did you figure this out? I just looked at your screen shot again and I noticed that you have 7,502 grams of carbohydrate, which comes to 30,008 Calories. That is impossible! Joe Dixon
Question: Hi! Hope you are both doing well 🙂 I was hoping one of you could answer a question I have about the diet assignment? When I inputted my food into the database and analyzed it, it gave me a few interesting results. One of those being that fluoride was 0% of my DV, but it also claimed I had 10 mg of it. So I guess I’m just a bit confused on what that means.
Answer: Hi ________, Thank you for your email. The nutrients with a red dot are not supported by the database. In the instructions it says not to worry or use Fluoride because you get much more of it from the toothpaste you use. Also, don’t use choline as it is not a necessary nutrient for most of us. Joe Dixon
Question: Hi Professor Dixon, This is _________ from Nutrition and Health 255 spring class. I had a question regarding the diet assignment we have to do. I’ve been keeping track of my meals and I realized all the nutrition serving size units are in metric system because I’m currently in South Korea and I cannot find the brands for the food I am eating. I was wondering if I have to convert every nutrition unit from metric system to the U.S. measurement units or if I can just use the metric system in my assignment. Thank you.
Answer: Hi _________, Thank you for your email. This is a great and important question. What you need to do is convert the value you have for a food item to the units that are used in the database. So if you have grams you can convert to tablespoons etc. This is easy to do using the Internet and the many converting sites. In some cases you may have to make a best guess on how much to put into the database. One important take home message from this assignment is how difficult it is to get a very accurate record of what you eat in one day. Imagine doing this for a week? Sincerely, joe Dixon
Question: Hi Professor Dixon, I hope you are doing well. I haven’t really come across many issues with the powerpoint portion of the diet assignment until now and it is one of the last parts to it. I noticed in your calculation for fat (saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated) you’re total amount of fat says 84g, but in the charts from the evaluation it says 92g. If I use the total fat value obtained from the chart the 3 fat percentages do not add to 100%. I am unsure of which value I should be losing, or how you obtained your value of 84g. I hope you can help! Regards,
Answer: Hi, Use the values from the ones you totaled up (sat, poly, and mono) and don’t worry about the total from the program. In this way they will add to 100% and you can calculate the percent of each kind of fat. Everyone’s diet is different and I am not sure why it does this for some people. I am doing well and I hope you are safe and healthy. Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Obesity Explosion Quizzes—
Question: Dear Professor Dixon, Good evening professor. I am _______________, a student from your Nutrition and Health Section1. I have some questions regarding the grading of obesity explosion quizzes. Are the quizzes graded based on the completion of the quizzes, or the scores obtained from the quizzes? If it’s based on the scores, are they graded on the average from all attempts in a chapter quiz? Or it takes the best score from all the attempts in a chapter quiz? I look forward to your reply. Best regards,
Answer: Hi _________, If you complete all the quizzes you get the full amount of points. You are supposed to get 100% on each quiz before you go on. There is a problem with that app so I am letting students just progress when they can. But I can see the percent obtained on each quiz. You can take the quizzes an unlimited amount of times. The main thing is to read all the chapters and finish the quizzes. With the size class I had to make this self-study! I hope you are safe and healthy!
Joe Dixon
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