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Diet Analysis As a full-time college student/ worker, I typically find myself always “on-the-go”, and that is probably the best way to describe my dietary eating habits: “on-the-go”. A lot of my diet is mainly from fast food or restaurants (especially because I work in one) which is evident from this analysis. I would describe myself as a sedentary person, I exercise at a 2 day maximum per week, but my BMI is average. I often feel very tired/unfocused and I am certain that my diet is responsible for my exhaustion. Lastly, I would like to include that week I chose to imput is a fair representation of my diet, but I find myself actually eating less because I am in such a hurry.

As an american, my diet is completely meat based so it wasn't surprising when I was high in the protein category. According to my diet, the majority of the meat I consume is not necessarily fatty or highly processed but it is not organic/ GMO free. On one of the days I had eaten a hamburger, ( a usual food choice), since it is a food I would usually enjoy, I would like to point out that people who consume a lot of processed meats in their diets have a greater risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes than those who do not eat processed meats. In my case, if i were to keep eating hamburgers regularly (on a weekly basis) it would raise my risks to heart …show more content…

With that being said, I think that skewed my calorie intake so I should be right on target. In addition to my calorie intake, I would like to point out that my calories would probably even out, but the reasoning for this is the majority of time, I will skip meals rather than eating low calorie whole foods. Since I am a still a little over, risks of higher calorie intake increase the risk of obesity and would raise the risk of heart

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