Reflection on PT

From tracing my 3-day diet, I think I'm doing a good job eating regular meals and refraining from eating snacks, ie junk food, when it's not meal time. However, I certainly need to work on eating more vegies because all my meals mostly consists of only meat. Vegetables are also an important part of our diet as it provides us with much nutrients. Hence, I will try to make it a habit to eat an appropriate amount of vegetables everyday. Meanwhile, I think I'm doing a good job eating at least 1 serving of fruits everyday. All in all, I think that my diet is relatively healthy, but can be improved by introducing more vegetables into it.

Yes, I think that the suggested nutritional tools and really useful. By using the "Energy & Nutrient Compositions of Food" tool, I could evaluate the nutritional vales of all the food I consume. This allows me to adjust my daily diet accordingly because I will be able to know if I'm consuming too much/little calories, or fats, or sodium etc. Also, the "Calorie Calculator" tool taught me the right amount of calorie intake I should have a day, as an active sports player. Together with the previous tool, I can effectively monitor if my calorie intake is too much or too little. Lastly, the "Healthy Diet Pyramid" tool allowed me to evaluate if I was lacking or over-consuming in certain levels of the diet pyramid. In my case, I learned that my daily diet lacked of vegetables. These tools were all very useful and I'm sure that they will come in handy in the future as well.

My one-dish meal(fried rice) that I have modified is healthy because besides using minimal oil to fry it, I have also included many vegetables such as green peas, corn, carrots and bean sprouts. For more variety, I also included egg and prawns. Prawns are a type of seafood so they are a healthy type of meat, compared to those in my previous unhealthy fried rice, ie char siu, chinese sausage etc. Hence, in my opinion, this modified dish is healthy.