Nutrition: Blog 1

The topic I am most interested in nutrition is a healthy diet. Specifically, daily diet is a more important factor in our lives than ever because many people's interests these days are well-being, health, and immunity. The benefits of a healthy diet are so many; it is essential to people's health and nutrition and at the same time protects people from chronic diseases. Also, it reduces the risk of developing some cancers, maintains a healthy weight, and prevents obesity or being overweight; in addition, it improves people's mental health as well as gut health and improves memory. A healthy diet includes nutrient-rich foods from all major food groups, including protein, generally low in fat, whole grains, healthy fats, and colorful fruits and vegetables (Knott, 2020). Throughout my learning about diets in nutrition classes, I thought very much about what my daily eating habits were mainly and which diet would benefit me and my family. Above all, Diet Analysis Assignment was very helpful to compare and analyze my daily diet habits. For example, instead of buying processed foods like cookies and chocolates at the mart, I started choosing foods with a lot of fresh phytochemicals, and the eating habit was changing little by little; I usually enjoyed coffee and breakfast sandwiches at Starbucks once or twice a week, but figures (iProfile) show that the diet consisted of fruits, vegetables, and nuts is much more nutritionally balanced than Starbucks' coffee and breakfast sandwiches; for instance, a plant-based diet is about one-third of the calories compared to Starbucks' coffee and breakfast sandwiches, while higher vitamin A 34 times, vitamin C 2 times, potassium 484 times, and fiber 4 times. In contrast, the sodium content is 1/158, which is relatively low. Also, I realized that the nutrients that my body intakes from instant noodles and seaweed soup are very different; seaweed soup is about twice as high in calories as instant noodles, but rather contains vitamins A and C, potassium, calcium, and zinc at least 4 to 30 times more. Finally, the part I want to learn more about nutrition is the essential nutrients and the foods that contain them, and ultimately, I want to know how to get them appropriately. This is because a balanced diet must contain a variety of foods in specific amounts and proportions based on accurate information on essential nutrients. As a result, I want to consistently plan a healthy daily diet through in-depth analysis and research for my well-being life.