I feel that her reflections has shown a lot of thought and insight, she explains how through the tools and analysis, she would go about changing her diet and also achieve health benefits. I like her one-dish meal too as it is well-balanced and healthy. It is also well explained and substantiated, for example the choices for each replacement of ingredient is given a well-elaborated explanation. The analysis of her diet is simply screen shots of the tools. However, her 3 day meals are well-elaborated with full meals, quantity and description.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Comments on other blogs - Blog 2
Blog 2 - http://cookielovex3.blogspot.com/
I feel that the suggestion of one-dish meal, is both healthy and balanced. And she provides a detailed explanation of her choices and the health benefits. However, I find her analysis superficial, mere 'copy and paste' work from the hpb tools and no actual analysis is made. Her reflections are rather short and do not reflect much insight and thought. Lastly, her 3 day meal table is quite ridiculous in a sense that she only e.g. drinks milo in a whole day. Well, I suppose she is very skinny then.
Comments on other blogs - Blog 1
Blog 1 - By Xie Meng Xue 213
In her reflections, she clearly shows understanding of how the various nutrients like calcium and sodium can cause various health problems if taken too little or too much. However, I feel that her one-dish meal is not what I would consider healthy, mainly because of the fact that she uses instant noodles which in itself contains a lot of sodium, preservatives and is said to cancer overtime. Although she suggests rinsing the noodles, I feel that this action is quite pointless as not only is the taste and texture lost, it is quite impossible to remove the preservatives and sodium as they are in the noodles and not lying on the surface. I feel that her analysis using the tools are very superficial and is a mere 'cut and paste' work with no personal opinions or synthesis of information.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Reflections (individual)
Reflections on the process and learning points
What have you learnt from your eating habits? Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
I have just learnt that my diet is extremely unhealthy; from the excess sodium, cholesterol, saturated fat, trans fat to the energy intake. I feel that I would definitely suffer from many diseases as I grow older if I continue eating like that. The cholesterol, fats would clog up my arteries, the sodium is going to cause kidney problems and ultimately I will be fat and frumpy. I think what I can do now is to start eating more selectively; e.g. to cut down on sodium intake, I will perhaps eat less frozen food, less gravy.
Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
I find the suggested nutritional tools useful because it has all the nutritional information of a lot of foods and it can be used to analyse my diet really easily. Best of all, it presents me the data in a very straightforward manner and it tells me very directly what exactly is wrong with my diet.
Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
(Please refer to previous post)
One-dish Healthy
Suggest a one-dish meal that is healthy
Modification of one-dish meal
Today I am going to modify the Chicken chop with mashed potatoes that is normally served at the food court where I eat.
I will modify it by changing the gravy used on the chicken chop and the mashed potatoes to a mix of herbs like oregano, mint and a dash of black pepper. This is because the gravy contains often oil that is used to fry the chicken and the oil would greatly increase Trans-fat.
I will also remove the skin of the chicken, but I will keep the fatty parts as they lock in the flavor. Also, I will change the coleslaw into sautéed vegetables with olive oil so that I can cut down the mayonnaise and the large amounts of sugar used in coleslaw.
This is also a balanced meal because there is protein (chicken), dietary fiber (vegetables) and there is also carbohydrates (mashed potato). Also, there is fat, cholesterol, sodium in all of them.
Analysis of my diet: Tool n3
Analysis of my diet: Energy and nutrient composition of food
Firstly, I am shocked by the amount of sodium in Yong Taohu soup because I've always thought that soup dishes was supposed to be more healthy and yet it had twice the sodium of fried beehoon. From now on, I shall make a note to myself to stop drinking the soup (no matter how tempting it is). I think among these 4 choices, the dumplings with pork and chives & the roasted chicken are the healthiest, however, I would probably choose the dumplings since it provides me with more energy and I find roast chicken rather dry and bland.
This time round, I want to see how 'nutritious' my main courses are and I think it is rather important because my main meals is when I get the most of the carbs, proteins, and ultimately fats.
CHICKEN, ROASTED WITH SKIN
| Energy (kcal) | 14 |
| Protein (g) | 2 |
| Total fat (g) | 1 |
| Saturated fat (g) | 0.3 |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 0.0 |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 0 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 8 |
| Sodium (mg) | 27 |
YONG TAOHU SOUP
| Energy (kcal) | 296 |
| Protein (g) | 19 |
| Total fat (g) | 15 |
| Saturated fat (g) | 6.6 |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 8.8 |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 21 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 88 |
| Sodium (mg) | 1,675 |
DUMPLINGS WITH PORK AND CHIVES
| Energy (kcal) | 69 |
| Protein (g) | 3 |
| Total fat (g) | 4 |
| Saturated fat (g) | 1.2 |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 0.5 |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 6 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 13 |
| Sodium (mg) | 97 |
FRIED BEEHOON
| Energy (kcal) | 250 |
| Protein (g) | 6 |
| Total fat (g) | 5 |
| Saturated fat (g) | 2.4 |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 3.6 |
| Carbohydrate (g) | 46 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 6 |
| Sodium (mg) | 820 |
Analysis of my diet: Tool n2
Analysis of my diet: Fat info finder
Well, now that I know how much saturated fat I am taking in, I've decided to compare the different snacks I frequently eat and perhaps find the healthier ones.
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Ironically, I realized that none of them are exactly healthy. Although the Portuguese egg tart and chicken pie are low in trans fat but high in saturated fat, and the cookies though low in saturated fat, but is very high in trans fat. Therefore, I think I would eat less of these and munch on perhaps wholemeal bread with margarine. |
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