Analysing Day 1

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Analysing Day 1

As for this day, on the way to Malaysia, I ate mostly manafactured and artificial food, so I decided to use the Healthy Diet Pyramid to analyse my diet for today.

Rice and Alternatives:

Polished Rice = 2 servings

Total: 2 servings

Fruits and vegetables

Mandarin Oranges = 1 serving

Spinach = 1 serving

Lotus soup (lotus) = 1/2 serving

Total: 2.5 servings

Meat and Alternatives

Bah Qua : 2 servings

Fried Fish: 1 serving

Lotus Soup (pork) : 1 serving

Total: 4 servings

Fats, oils, sugar, salt

There was a great amount of fat and oil used in the bah qua and fried fish. There was also a lot of sugar used in skittles and chocolate cake, thus I would conclude that the amount of fats, oils, sugar and salt used is way over the recommended amount.

Conclusion

During Day 1, eve of CNY, my diet is very unbalanced due to too little carbohydrates, and too much fats, oils, sugar, and salt. However my amount of vegetables and meat is relatively okay though I should try to tone that down as well.

I should also try to eat more rice, bread, etc, and use wholegrain instead of polished rice. This was help in my intake of carbohydrates tremendously. I will try to cut down on sweet things such as candy as well.