Cleola Moore
SCI/241
Denise Bolding
January 9, 2010
Personalized Nutrition and Exercise Plan
Introduction
This paper will explain a health or nutritional problem that I can for see as a result of family history. This paper will also identify the health/nutrition problem that will be targeted as well as my nutritional and/ or physical exercise goals. However, this paper will explain how I intend on meeting each goal. This paper will address how my plan may be adjusted to fit any changing nutritional needs as a result of age. In this paper I will describe anticipated setbacks or difficulties and approaches for overcoming them. On the other hand, this paper will describe outcomes I will use to measure success. In conclusion, this paper will give evidence of my plans effectiveness in addressing the identified problem or need and evaluate the potential health risk that may develop if my plan is not implemented.
Personalized Nutrition and Exercise Plan
To start my family has a history of cancer. According to chapter 5 of the readings, cancer is linked to fat in the diet. Consequently, my family members that have passed away I would not have known his and her eating habits. Therefore, I do not know if bad eating habits contributed to his and her illness leading to death. Nevertheless, this would be something interesting to look further into however, according to chapter 5 of the text cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, and is estimated that 30 to 40% of cancers are linked to dietary choices.
To illustrate more my auntie passed away from leukemia, which attacks the blood and can spread throughout the body to other organs, such as the liver spleen, and lymph nodes. In addition, she battled with leukemia for about 7 years. At the time I did not know much about leukemia and still not quite up to date so I researched and found that risk factors for leukemia for most people,
References: www.webmd.com University Readings Chapter 5 (2010)