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Culmulative Wellness Project 14
Nutrition and wellness (NSC-150)
Grand Canyon University
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ios) with healthy fats like avocados or fish, which are unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats contribute to excellent health improvements like reduced risk of disease or stroke, an increase in good cholesterol, and a reduced risk of premature death (Cleveland Clinic, 2022). To continually improve my dietary macronutrient intake, I plan to pay close attention to serving sizes and nutrition labels. Nutrition labels should contain serving sizes, and percentages of macronutrients. However, I do feel it is important to listen to my body, therefore, if I feel that I am not consuming enough nutrients and macronutrients, I will increase the serving sizes. Malnutrition occurs when the body is deprived of nutrients needed to maintain healthy tissue and organ function (Hopkins medicine). Therefore, I should be careful to not under consume nutrients. This way, I will be able to continue a healthy lifestyle fir much longer. Another way to continually improve my macronutrient intake is to find better food alternatives than what I regularly consume. For instance, in the mornings I typically consume Greek yogurt, which is a great source of protein, however I make consider switching over to eggs, which contain different nutrients that my body may find more beneficial. Pertaining to the micronutrients, I did not do as well as I did with the macronutrients. I under consumed all micronutrients besides vitamin C. Therefore, some positive changes I can implement to effectively meet my recommended daily goal for calcium, sodium, potassium, and iron are including more sources of these micronutrients. For instance, to increase my consumption of calcium, I can include more dairy like milk, cheese, and yogurt. These are excellent sources of calcium, as they contain 20 percent or more of daily value per serving (Human Kinetics, 2018). When lacking certain nutrients, the best thing to do is increase the consumption of sources containing these micronutrients. In addition, to increase my potassium, some positive changes I can implement are increasing my consumption of foods such as potatoes
Culmulative Wellness Project 14
Course: Nutrition and wellness (NSC-150)
University: Grand Canyon University
