Reflections

I think this Food and Nutrition Aesthetics Module has been really helpful and informative to me, especially during the blogging. I observed many different things from my 3-days diet, such as the healthy and unhealthy food that I have been eating, the amount of carbohydrate, protein, calcium intake into my body or the number of times in a day that I tend to get hungry and eat. All these observations were really useful in letting me understand more about my daily food intake. During the Food & Nutrition blog, I was introduced to the Health Promotion Board website for the first time. I realised that there were many health tools that could be used to evaluate and analyse my diet. It was definitely a new experience that I had gone through during this interesting module. Health tools such as Food Intake Assessment would evaluate the amount of carbohydrate, protein and calcium etc that the person has been eating over a maximum days of 7 days. We are also informed of what our recommended diet is according to our BMI( Body Mass Index). There also included other efffective tools, Energy & Nutrient Composition and the Recipe Analysis. I was able to make conclusions and also do the personal analysis with the help of these necessary information.

I realised that my food intake of carbohydrate was always relatively high and generally higher than recommended percentage. More than recommended may not be good at times, especially for issues that have to do with food and complex body systems. Problems may arise due to these improper diet habits. Carbohydrates are the main food content that gives us energy thus close attention to what we eat would help. Basically, diet should be well maintained and observed so that I would be able to lead a healthy lifestyle.

I consider my diet to be a relatively healthy diet but I would have to take note of my dietary fibre intake. I must learn how to eat fruits and more vegetables when my mother cooks as these are the food items that give us vitamins that our body may need quickly. I think the suggested health tools from the Health Promotion Board website were extremely helpful. Our diet was broken down into many different graphs under different categories. It was full of information to allow more analysis. I really learnt alot upon the completion of the Food & Nutrition Blog. The one-dish meal is healthy because more vegetables added means the dietary fibre would increase. The dish would also utilise only olive oil which is a healthy form of oil from plants. Brown rice increases the nutrient and mineral of the dish while the othe healthy aspects of the dish were explained in previous posts in the blog. I have generally enjoyed this aesthetics programe.