Eating a balanced diet is important for overall health and well-being. A balanced diet supplies the body with the nutrients needed for the many changes and demands that a person experiences throughout their lifespan. As a nurse, it is important to know the dietary needs of the body to promote health, as well as educate and improve outcomes for every patient they meet. Pregnancy is an important area to educate on nutritional needs since body requirements during this time change. Having a pregnant patient do a 24-hour nutritional intake assessment can help ensure that daily recommended needs that correspond to the number of weeks gestation are met (Pillitteri, Silbert-Flagg, 2010). The goal is that the mother understands the need for these recommended …show more content…
She does take a daily prenatal vitamin and consumes the daily recommended amount of fluids. Based on her 24-hour recall, the patient needs to add more calories to her diet by increasing meal proportions and incorporating snacks throughout the day. She needs to add dairy products to her diet as she currently is consuming none. Dairy needs can be promoted by include milk or soy milk as a fluid choice, or by adding cheese to her salad. Snacking between meals on string cheese paired with an orange which can help meet both dairy and fruit recommendations. More protein sources can be added into her meals, such as adding sausage to her breakfast and other lean meats or beans into her other meals. Nuts are a great, protein-packed snack she can easily include throughout the day. She needs to increase her daily consumption of grains, by making her salad a tasty wrap or adding toast or crackers throughout the day. She needs more fruits and vegetables added to her diet. Pairing up foods together, such as carrots with hummus dip, peanut butter with celery, or yogurt with berries and oats help to add variety per sitting. Another consideration would be varying her fluid intake from water only to include juices, smoothies and other
A Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) was completed on Anne. The MNA is a tool used to provide a rapid assessment of elderly patients’ nutritional status. The MNA is made up of simple measurements and a few brief questions that can be completed by the patient in no more than ten minutes. The nutritional status of a patient is evaluated using a two-step process to accurately determine a patient’s nutritional status (McGee
To ensure adequate nutritional intake Ana needs to get her sources of protein from other products. She needs to have a diet high that is high in fiber, provides adequate protein, and most vitamins and minerals. She needs to include egg, legumes, nuts, beans and soy products, to provide for complete proteins. Eggs and soy based products are complete proteins including all of the 9 essential amino acids. She also needs to have enough B12, vitamin D and calcium, And DHA added into her diet. B12 can comes from soy milk, fortified breakfast cereals and fish. If she can consume dairy products and fortified milk substitutes she can receive her needed vitamin D and calcium. DHA and EPA can be received from fish and seafood product. It is important that she make sure her meals include a variety of nutrients, she should eat many whole fruits and vegetable. An important thing is to find a vegetarian pattern that is full of nutrients that fits her and she can stick
Medical nutrition therapy for people with GD should be individualized based on a persons, height, weight, physical activity, food aversions, and other medical conditions. Monitoring of metabolic parameters, including glucose, lipids, blood pressure, and body weight, as well as the health of the developing baby, is important to assess the need for changes in medical nutrition therapy and to ensure successful outcomes.
Maintaining good eating habit is important regardless of a person’s life cycle. During pregnancy such habit is even more necessary as the mother is also feeding the fetus. Therefore, there has been some guidelines set forth to inform pregnant woman and encourage them to maintain daily intakes of nutrients that are essentials to both the mother and the baby. According to American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynelogy (ACOG) 2015, a woman should chose food from all the five food groups such as grains, vegetables, fruits, proteins, and dairy. Oils and fats also provide
Nutrition and breastfeeding are subjects that can relate greatly to each other. New mothers are in a need of information regarding breastfeeding. Mothers receive the information and instructions on how to breastfeed at the hospital where they bear their children. That information is essential in the decision making process of whether to breastfeed or not. Still the clear choice for mothers everywhere is breastfeeding for several important life affecting reasons. Breast milk is highly nutritional, protects from various diseases, ideal in growth, promotes bonding, and is beneficial for the mother in a recovery process after labor.
Nutrition, I have learned plays a big part in our life. To be honest I was clueless about how much nutrition affected our everyday lives. I love going to the gym working out, now that I know what should go into my diet I think I will see a lot more improvement. I occasionally follow the latest diet fads because I believed it would be better for my health, but in turn it really hurt more than it helped! This Diet Analysis project has been extremely useful course because I can personally relate to it and can use much of the information learned to my daily routines. The Diet Analysis project was a real eye opener because it let me see what exactly I was putting into my diet.
When it came to the fruits and vegetables category, the results were relatively the same. The three food tracker revealed basically the same; that she does not eat enough fruits and vegetables. The reason for this now is because of being way too busy to actually eat like she was supposed to. She has learned to like more vegetables than she did back in May, but she is still not eating as many vegetables as she should be eating on a daily basis. The timing is still an issue and will probably continue to be an issue until she lives with someone else who will help her eat the fruits and vegetables before they go bad. She loves fruits and is getting better at eating vegetables, but when she does not eat them as fast as the get bad, then that is just a waste of money. Also being extremely busy this summer has not made it easy to eat more fruits and vegetables. If someone does not have time to go to the
For years, I have been eating what I want. Food choices are a significant factor that affects our health. What we like or crave, often, is the determining variable in what we eat. Finding the right balance of food choices is the key factor in improving our health benefits. Choosing nutrient-dense foods will provide more nutritional value than foods that are found to be low in nutrient density. Making the right choices in foods, however, is extremely difficult. Often, I find myself enthralled in the latest fad, not considering the subtext of the foods I am eating, such as nutrients, vitamins, healthy fats and unhealthy fats, cholesterol and minerals. The diet project underlined a three-day food entry intake that provided a dietary analysis report
A million types of fad diets promising people to lose weight by using drugs or specific diet plans such as 5:2, paleo, hormone cure, virgin, bulletproof. Moreover, each type of fad diets has own specific style. Studies show that 108 million people in US following fad diets (ABC News Staff, 2012). The fad diets are the same as fashion that people use it enthusiastically for a period of time to give them beauty, elegant and perfect appearance. A fad diet is the most dangerous type of diet and it causes many health problems. This paper will look at two areas, which are physical and mental problems. Fad diets is becoming more popular because the consumers spend a huge amount of their money to follow specific type of diets to lose their weight
was well organized, efficient and effective. She was compliant with 83% of the new plan regimen by the end of the four weeks project. She was also in compliant of her weekly weight regimen and documentations throughout the course of the project. Even though C.M skipped imputing some caloric intake and meal times in her journal, at the end, she was able to achieve 90 % compliance of healthy eating through label reading food planning and the use of the national dietary guidelines. She was also able to reduce her intake of fast foods noted by a marked reduction in weight of 7 lbs. at the end of the third week. While C.M made a lot of progress in most of the itemized plan of care, she was non-compliant in the area of meeting with a nutritional counsellor. She attributed this to lack of time and financial
My overall Kcal average for the three days I recorded was 4,318, while my Daily recommended intake was 3,484. In terms of Kcal, I am eating more calories per day than recommended. Breaking it down a bit farther to percent of carbohydrates, I ate 110 percent of my Daily Required Intake for Carbohydrates, specifically 39.1 g more than recommended. The daily recommendation for protein is ten to thirty-five percent,
The patient may no longer be able to orally take in food, and the artificial means of feeding may worsen the patient’s quality of life. The concept of food cessation is often difficult for the patient’s friends and family to understand and accept, especially because food is essential to life, and eating is a sociocultural experience. Family must be reminded that to feed the patient may do more harm than good. However, until the time that oral intake stops, nurses must be providing other ways to increase the patient’s nutrient intake. The performance of symptom assessments and the development of plans of care should begin at the time of diagnosis and continue throughout the remainder of the patient’s life. These assessments and plans of care are both critical to preventing the onset of early malnutrition and to maintaining the patient’s quality of
Nutrition assessments include clinical and dietary assessment, anthropometrics, as well as biochemical, laboratory immunologic and functional indices of nutritional status (Gibney, 2005). In epidemiological studies, different dietary investigation tools were designed to assess the nutritional status in individuals and populations, nutrition monitoring and surveillance and diet-disease research (Friedenreich, et al., 1992, Taren, 2002).
The 3-day food record allowed me to take a closer look at what I was putting in my body. Since the project, I have been more vigilant in what I ultimately feed myself and the baby. I have taken to drinking more water and started juicing in addition to a more natural diet and no fast-food. I am not aware of any limitations in my findings of my diet analysis. I am aware that as far as micronutrients are concerned, it is very important to keep a keen eye on your intake. More is not always better, and supplements can cause harm if not careful. With that being said, supplements do not always supply the necessary minerals in one’s diet either. Ultimately, actual food sources are a better way to regulate proper micronutrient intake.
Fear, fatigue, depression, paranoia, confusion, itchy skin, hostility, rage, and anxiety Pellagra is clinically described as the three D’s: dermatitis, diarreah, dementia and death (Mercola, 2018).