Canada's Food Guide Case Study
a) Compare your intake with the recommendations from Eating well with Canada’s Food Guide and comment on the overall adequacy of your diet.
When comparing the Canada’s Food Guide recommendations with the overall status of my diet, I can infer that the amount of food that I have ingested over the three days have not been within the proposed range of health eating guidance. For the first food group, meat and alternatives, the recommended servings for individuals that are teens/adults is 2 servings, whereas the serving amount in my diet is 0.67 servings per day. The milk and alternatives group recommended 2 servings per day, but on the other hand my diet consists of 1.67 servings of this group per day. The grain product group servings proposes …show more content…
Families with lower incomes tend to eat less unhealthy foods that those with either middle or high incomes. This is the same case in my personal life, while growing up my family’s income is roughly around $35,000 per year since only my father works and most of the money is used to pay bills, buy medications and pay for gas. In order to save money, my mother would buy fast food at least twice a week in order to save money. The habit of eating fast food is still something that I choose to do because it is convenient and also a habit that has been part of my life since my childhood. This topic is correlated with the second social determinants of health which is health child development. Health child development describes the importance to provide a proper path to follow because it is the path they are most likely to follow for the rest of their lives. For some, a healthy food diet was always set since he/she was a child but others this is not the case. My childhood was rarely filled with healthy foods, and unfortunately this habit is still paving my life choices. The choice of eating healthy was always a difficult task to do because the primary reason of cost, it always seemed so convenient for me to buy food already prepared and cooked. It was also too time consuming for me to spend on fresh produce even when I had the chance to change my habits, all because it was very integrated into my choices of food ever since my
When comparing the Canada’s Food Guide recommendations with the overall status of my diet, I can infer that the amount of food that I have ingested over the three days have not been within the proposed range of health eating guidance. For the first food group, meat and alternatives, the recommended servings for individuals that are teens/adults is 2 servings, whereas the serving amount in my diet is 0.67 servings per day. The milk and alternatives group recommended 2 servings per day, but on the other hand my diet consists of 1.67 servings of this group per day. The grain product group servings proposes …show more content…
Families with lower incomes tend to eat less unhealthy foods that those with either middle or high incomes. This is the same case in my personal life, while growing up my family’s income is roughly around $35,000 per year since only my father works and most of the money is used to pay bills, buy medications and pay for gas. In order to save money, my mother would buy fast food at least twice a week in order to save money. The habit of eating fast food is still something that I choose to do because it is convenient and also a habit that has been part of my life since my childhood. This topic is correlated with the second social determinants of health which is health child development. Health child development describes the importance to provide a proper path to follow because it is the path they are most likely to follow for the rest of their lives. For some, a healthy food diet was always set since he/she was a child but others this is not the case. My childhood was rarely filled with healthy foods, and unfortunately this habit is still paving my life choices. The choice of eating healthy was always a difficult task to do because the primary reason of cost, it always seemed so convenient for me to buy food already prepared and cooked. It was also too time consuming for me to spend on fresh produce even when I had the chance to change my habits, all because it was very integrated into my choices of food ever since my