Question

Mrs. B is a 34-year-old woman with 3 children between the ages of 5-12. She works full time and brings her children to various extracurricular activities after work. She is on the run a lot. She has just been diagnosed with GERD. Her Doctor is also concerned about her weight gain of 15#over the past year. She is 5'5" and weights 188#.

She reports that she sometimes does not have time to pack her lunch, so she goes out to eat for lunch with colleagues. She does not have time to cook most nights or is too tired, she tends to eat out with her children; eat in the car on the road or bring take out in. She is very upset about her weight and her weight gain. She would like to lose weight but she does think she could change her eating out habits significantly.She is willing to begin cooking more at home and packing her lunch sometimes, however realistically she knows that she will be still be eating out for dinner and on the run many days of the week

Assignment: Provide three recommendations of specific meals and restaurants/fast food that she can choose when she eats out on the run.

Research some fast food places and restaurants; provide specific recommendations for how she can choose healthier lower fat and calorie meals and where to go.  Provide names of restaurants or places/items/dishes she can order and the fat content. Discuss why it is a healthier option.

Answer 1

Nowadays it is very common that people are gaining weight due to lack of healthy diet, they are too busy to takecare of themselves, and as aresult poor health and many diseases occurs. One must give more preference to their health because " health is wealth". It is better to cook food and eat at homes rather than going out for lunch and dinner, but in case sometimes it is not possible to have food at home, one must order or eat better food at resturants also. At resturantsthey should avoid junk food and it is better to have chicken soup, veg soup etc, along with the grilled chicken, or barbique stuff, as these things will provide nutrients, mainly protien. They should avoid red meat as they are not good for heart. They can go for some lemon juice or nay kind of juice rather than having mocktails or soft drinks. The low fat and calorie diet can be obtained by following some of the foods such as:A variety of vegetables from all of the subgroups—dark green, red and orange, legumes (beans and peas), starchy, and other fruits, especially whole fruits, grains, at least half of which are whole grains, fat-free or low-fat dairy, including milk, yogurt, cheese, and/or fortified soy beverages. A variety of protein foods, including seafood, lean meats and poultry, eggs, legumes (beans and peas), and nuts, seeds, and soy products.

Many resturants provide healthy and good diet foods which are good for health, such as LYFE KITCHEN, VEGGIE GRILLS, JUST SALAD etc are some of the resturants.

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