Question

Select one of your 24 hour (1 day) food records. Visualize your intake over the day as food categories on a plate. Describe how your intake compares to the My Plate graphic. Then click on the MyPlate report in the tracker and review the information. What do you believe is the best way to utilize the new “MyPlate” graphic?

Answer 1

The major focus in the development of food based dietary intake is on the cultural acceptability of the recommendations, and this must be reflected in their visualization. The choice of foods and colors in illustrations should be culturally appropriate and sensitive to religious and other cultural intake categories to individual needs and preferences .

The 24 hour intake may consist of grains , wheat , barley , rice as we utilize ,fish ,chiken ,beans ,and nuts are healthy that we take as protein source , can be mixed into salads and pair well with vegetables on a plate with limited red meat . Mostly our 1 day intake food categories lies with these foods that could not contain all sources of vitamins , calories , carbohydratesetc besides this we take milk, fruits , just as variety of foods differing impact on human health, they also have differing impacts on environment.

There are some differences between my intake plate and the my plate graphic , as the my plate graphic cover all the required nutrients that a body demands . My plate is a healthy eating style and build throughout our life time as it plans food group targets.

My plate graphic contains fruits , Grains, Vegetables, Proteins as it focus on variety , amount, and nutrition that shaped our stages of life , situations, preferences,access to food.

By comparing both categories I believe that my plate graphic is overall healthy plate that specifies our needs and demands of the body so that we can feel healthy and smart.

It's best way is to build your healthy eating style and maintain it for a lifetime. My plate plan contains all such requirements that a person could not be able to utilize as our intake category that we follow is not sufficient to acquire all such needs and demands , that a body needs , in this case we lack some nutrients that badly impact our body . There my plate graphic is the way to utilize and follow throughout your life to live a healthy life.