Question

Discuss and state the Learning Journal question/task and its requirements. View the following image, The Eat Well Plate, and answer the following questions in your learning journal.

1. Recall what you had to eat for your last meal and list where they appear in the Eat Well Plate.

2. Do you think that this “Eat Well Plate” is a plate that you would be able to have for every meal? In other words, is it possible to for people to achieve and maintain this type of plate? Support your response with citations from this unit’s reading. Be sure to use APA format for your citations.

Explain how different factors can affect your health (genetics, environment, life cycle, and lifestyle) and your personal choice of foods (economic, social, cultural, and emotional).

3. Are there any food groups that you would like to increase to make it more closely match to the “Eat Well Plate”?

Reference Health Canada. (2015). Build a healthy meal: Use the Eat Well Plate. Retrieved from http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/alt/pdf/eating-nutrition/healthy-eating-saine-alimentation/tips-conseils/interactive-tools-outils-interactifs/eat-well-bien-manger-eng.pdf

Answer 1

Eat well plate is a pictorial summary of the food groups that are included in our diet to meet the daily requirements of body.

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2.It is not possible to follow a "eat well Plate" for every meal.

• The "Eat Well Plate recommends all the foods for a healthy balanced diet
• But it is not possible for people to achieve and maintain this type of plate.Because all are having some limitations in their life in some ways including their culture,food preferences,conscious regarding the body image and weight gain,stress in our daily life,economical backgroud etc.
• Irrespctive or exclude this factors these recommendations shown in the "Eat Well plate is apply to most people regardless of their:

Weight

Dietary restrictions or preferences

Ethnic origin

*Factors affect on health and personal choice of foods

• The very interesting fact behind the "Eat Well Plate" is to evaluate the cost implications to meet the eat well guide.
• Instead of focusing on "Eat Well Plate" we should prefer more emphasis on the nutritional results and it should be cheap and economically afford.
• In different cultures some foods may be excluded.
• All of us have difference in food preference and it may vary all cannot follow the "Eat Well Plate" according to their own preference.

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