Monday, September 20, 2010
1:56 AM
Blogs Assessed
Gina's blog:
Gina has a fairly similar diet as I do, as she also consumes too much sodium and protein. However, she also consumes too high a level of cholesterol foods, something which is not a problem for me as I do not really like eating foods high in cholesterol such as seafood.
I think that however, I could learn from her to eat more foods high in dietary fibre, such as vegetables and fruit, which I do not consume enough of. These fruits and vegetables provide us with lots of minerals and vitamins.
In her one dish healthy meal, it was a good modification of her KFC meal. Instead of consuming deep fried chicken which contains alot of oil, baked chicken is a good option to replace it and yet, she can still consume the recommended amount of protein. I also like the idea that she includes vegetables and carbohydrates in her meal. To make it an even healthier dish, I would suggest she used brown rice instead of white rice with her meal.
Also, I do not recommend that she consumed both honey baked ham and baked chicken in the meal. In her food intake assessment, it can be seen that Gina consumes TOO MUCH PROTEIN, therefore, she should cut down on protein intake.
Yuling's Blog
In Yuling's diet, I noticed that she consumes too much protein, cholesterol, and WAY TOO MUCH SODIUM, more than 4x the recommended amount! Therefore, she would definitely have to tackle her issue about consuming too much sodium. As can be seen in the food pyramid in my post below, salt, sugar, fats and oils should be consumed in small amounts and are placed at the top of the food pyramid.
In her one dish healthy meal, the sodium content is still considerably high, exceeding the recommended amount DAILY in just one meal! This can be greatly improved on.Apart from that, I think it is good that the fat content in the meal is low, as should be according to the food pyramid.
Chelsea's Blog
Among all four of us(me, Gina, Yuling and Chelsea), I think that Chelsea maintains the most well-balanced diet, besides the fact that she consumes too much fat and sodium. Knowing these problems, she has come up with a good, nutritious, well-balanced two dish meal that can help her to improve her existing diet effectively.
Her fish soup bee hoon contains carbohydrates, dietary fibre, protein and little amounts of salt. This is a big step towards improving her high sodium diet originally. Also, her fruit salad is high in dietary fibre, and can help to improve her diet before which was slightly low in it.
I think Chelsea's two dish meal can not only benefit her, but also many others as it is a generally well-balanced and healthy meal.
