Personal Nutrition Assessment: A Personal Nutrition Assessment Project

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Personal Nutrition Assessment Project I think this project was a great opportunity for me to learn how to educate and guide patient’s in making better nutritional decisions with the help of my using MyFitness Pal. I think MyFitness Pal is an excellent resource for any patient that is interested in improving their nutrition. Nutrition is often neglected by patient 's, therefore, as dental professionals it is important to use the latest technology to attract our patient’s to become more interested in their nutrition. The positive impact of this project has encouraged me to recommend using MyFitness Pal to my patient 's as a hands on activity to help correlate nutrition and the patient’s overall health. This project also allowed me to become aware of the poor food choices I made, which will help to benefit my patient’s that have a similar diet. I found MyFitness Pal app to be easy to navigate and interpret. I found many advantages in using this app in regards to benefiting my patient 's and myself. I found the app to be accurate and precise at calculating my average percentages compared to my goal percentages. I also found the process of using MyFitness Pal to be very detailed in the list of nutrients found in my food items. Even though certain meals had to be added separately, I still thought finding those food items was easy to do. I think this app would be …show more content…

I think using this app has made tracking my nutrition and talking about nutrition a fun experience. Not only has this process been fun, but reading the reports has helped to motivate myself to reach my goal. I also think I can relate more to patient 's that have the similar diet as me now by using MyFitness Pal and explaining the nutrients the body needs. Therefore, I believe the future use of this app will benefit patient’s nutritional health and help motivate patient 's to become interested in

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