Nutrition case study. Overall, I think Emma should have a well balanced diet. Her body will get all the nutrients it needs to function correctly. I suggest that she snacks on healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables, simply anything that is not too high

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BTEC National Diploma in Health Studies

Nutrition for Health and Social Care

Assignment 2

TASK 1 (P4)

  1. Emma L. is a 20 years old British female. She studies at University. She is 162 cm tall and weight of 68 kilos. Her Body Mass Index is 25.9 which mean that Emma is overweight. Emma has sitting life style. She spends the most of her time on studying. At free time she watches TV and surfs on internet. On Saturday she goes with her friends to pub. When Emma goes out she drinks alcohol such as beer or drinks with vodka. She smokes around 7 cigarettes a day. Her personal food preferences are not really healthy. Often she doesn’t have time for proper meals because she is in hurry between lectures and studying. When she get home she is too tired to make a healthy meal for her self, therefore she does take aways.

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The food we consume determines our physical and psychological health. Emma diet is not healthy because she consume too much fat, eat small amount of fruits and vegetables, drinks fizzy drinks and alcohol. Having too much saturated fat in diet increase the amount of cholesterol in the blood, which increases the chance of developing heart disease. She should be cutting down on food that is high in saturated fat or trans fats or replacing these foods with ones that are high in unsaturated fat instead. It's also important for Emma to have some fat in her diet because fat helps the body absorb some vitamins; it's a good source of energy and a source of the essential fatty acids that the body can't make itself. Emma’s Body Mass index is over weight because she is having a lot of fat which makes it easy to have more energy than we need, which means we might be more likely to put on weight. Emma consumes a lot of fizzy and caffeine drinks. Fizzy drinks fizzy drinks are loaded with sugar in effect they cause tooth erosion. They are also linked this to in oesophageal cancer. Every single day after breakfast Emma drinks coffee. As we all know caffeine has a negative impact on our body. Caffeine is responsible of heartburns, ulcers, heart problems, blood pressure, sleep, brain and behaviors.
However Emma eats, chicken, bacon, sausages, cheese   which is reach in proteins. Proteins play an essential role in building and repairing our body. But whether it helps a finger nail to grow or heals a sore muscle, for example, depends on the make-up of the protein. Emma diet is poor in fruits and vegetables therefore her body lack of vitamins.

Vitamins contain no useful energy for the body but they do link and regulate the sequence of metabolic reactions that release energy within the food we consume. In brief Emma diet is unhealthy lacing in many minerals and vitamins.

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TASK 2 (P5) and (M3)

                                                                                                         

TASK 3 (D2)

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