Dietary Intake Assessment Dietary intake is a lifestyle factor that has a large effect on health and wellness. After reading the required and recommended materials, assess your dietary intake by tracking your diet and using appropriate tools to review it. To begin, keep a record of your food intake for one day. You may use the sample or create something similar on your own. Assessing your food intake can help you determine which nutrients you are consuming in excess and which nutrients you need more of. Be sure to include serving sizes and all beverages consumed. Next, go to the USDAs website. Locate and click on the link which is located under Popular Topics on the left-side of the homepage. On the SuperTracker homepage, create a profile by clicking on in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. By creating a profile, your current health information will be saved for future use. Additionally, you can use the My Top 5 Goals section to set your desired health and fitness goals. This will then reflect in your My Plan section, by showing you your target daily food and activity requirements. Next, click on , which is located in the
square in the middle of the homepage beneath the center page heading. Here you can enter the food that you recorded in your daily journal. If you need to enter ingredients for a particular item or dish (like a breakfast smoothie), click on the Create a Combo button, which is next to the Meals heading and daily calorie count in the center of the page. Once all your food and beverages have been entered for the day, your completed SuperTracker chart will look similar to this example: Pay attention to the Daily Food Group Targets section and also click on and review the (under the graph). The analysis in your video journal should contain two parts. : Assess your diet by addressing the points below: : Examine the effects of your diet on your health and wellness by addressing the following in your video YouTube journal entry: Your journal should be two to five minutes in duration. Review the on how to create a YouTube account and create a YouTube video journal. Submit a one-page Word document that contains the URL to your YouTube video journal by Day 7. Carefully review the for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries.