After taking this course, the most interesting topic that I have learned about is nutrient needs, eating habits, and dietary cautions for early and middle childhood, adults, and adolescents. I thought learning about this specific topic taught me how I could feed my future children due to their nutrient needs, and now I know what foods are considered good and bad for them. I also thought that during middle childhood, that was a time where I looked back on what I used to eat and realized how unhealthy I was. Now, I know how to change my diet and health habits going into adulthood, and when trying to figure out what foods to include in my diet plan, the easiest way to do this is to eat according to the nutritional recommendations for my age. After age 18, my dietary needs changed as my body aged. Moving away from home, starting college, and the changing lifestyle that accompanies the late teens and early 20s can cause dietary changes that are not always beneficial for good health. Nowadays, I make an amazing effort to keep physically active, include more healthy fats, include more protein, and I establish healthy eating habits that will be carried on into later life.
This course left me with a better understanding of the basics of nutrition. I
really enjoyed the variety of material we covered in this class and how I now have a better grasp
on the basics of nutrition. What I took most from this course was how detailed the art of
nutrition is, and I felt that this course was a great introduction to the study of nutrition of anyone who needs nutrition in their careers. I am looking forward to taking some more nutrition courses so that I can expand my knowledge so that I can use it in my daily life and to help for when I get into the nursing field. If I could change one thing about this course, I wish that we had more class meetings instead of most of it being online. I believe it would have been more beneficial for me to learn in the classroom than to learn online or through a textbook. This course has been very educative, and it has helped me connect a lot of what I learn in this class to what happens in my daily life. I was able to see many connections in my courses and in my life outside of college. For example, my parents are really interested in trying to improve their diet and health, so this course helped us to know what the best way to change our lives for the better was. Changing one’s lifestyle is not simple. and to do it right requires a lot of effort and planning. This nutrition class provided me with the knowledge necessary to do make better changes in my diet and how to get more exercise in my days. Throughout the class, I have learned many things about nutrition that I did not know about my own health including how unhealthy I was as a child and what areas of nutrition I need to work on. The assignments on the diet analysis, the different projects that were assigned, healthy eating plans, and the powerpoints helped me learn the most about my nutrition and what I can do to improve it.
Old habits die hard, and I came to learn this when I was trying to lose weight and create a better diet. Changing our habits is a process that involves several stages, and sometimes it takes a while before changes become new habits; of course, we face roadblocks along the way that get in the way. Adopting new, healthier habits may protect us from serious health problems as we get older. New habits, like healthy eating and regular physical activity or exercise, will help us to manage our weight and have more energy. To improve our eating habits and our physical activity levels, it's best to make small lifestyle changes, like goals, that you can keep doing over time. After a while, if we stick with these changes, they could become part of our daily routine.
If we want to make changes in our lives, we should make S.M.A.R.T. goals; this stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-Based. Goals should be straightforward and emphasize what you want to happen, and specifics help us to focus our efforts and clearly define what we are going to do. Specific is the What, Why, and How of a S.M.A.R.T. goal, and this includes: WHAT are you going to do? WHY is this important to do at this time? HOW are you going to do it? If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Choose a goal with measurable progress, so you can see the change occur, and your goal should be meaningful to you; the goal should be inspiring enough that it motivates you to success. Break large goals into smaller goals since being able to accomplish small goals along the way will keep you motivated to accomplish your overall goal. Create a plan to do all the steps you need because this will ensure you are
staying on the right track. Choose a time, the sooner the better. If you don’t set a time, you are not making a solid commitment and you will allow yourself the opportunity to say, “I will start tomorrow.” Make sure your timeframe is also specific, measurable, attainable and realistic.
Healthy eating has many benefits like having more energy, improvement of health, lower risk of health issues, maintain a healthy weight, and in the long-run, we feel proud of ourselves and we can set an excellent example for our friends and family. Also, physical activity has the same benefits, but we also become stronger and we can have fun with exercise or physical activity by doing things we love. To stick with our new habits to make ourselves healthier, we must review our plan, look at the goals we set and how well we are meeting them, overcome roadblocks by planning ahead for setback, and rewarding ourselves for our hard work.
Nutrition is one of the biggest topics talked about in today’s world considering the majority of people are trying to fix their weight and their diet to make themselves healthier. What is a true difficulty is that there are so many people out there who are not educated enough on nutrition since they never took a course, were introduced to false information on the internet, or simply do not know anything about nutrition. Food and nutrition are very important topics for students and for society, and I believe that it is essential that they are incorporated into the curriculum whether it is taken in elementary, middle school, high school, or college. The topics taught in nutrition can teach useful skills and provide information for life, and schools should make sure that all of the students learn about food and nutrition in as many grades as possible, even if the subjects can't be taught in a separate course. The nutrition part of the course will give students a good background and should help them understand how the treatment of foods affects their nutrient level. I think that a specialized course in nutrition is vitally important, so that food and nutrition can be covered in depth, and the relationships between them are emphasized. Improving the health of the upcoming generation and this generation is very important, not only for the sake of individual students and their families, but for the sake of public health budgets. A food and nutrition course offers many valuable benefits to students; for example, the course may enable students to perform tasks like prepare and store food safely, take precautions to prevent foodborne illness, discover healthier ways to make their favorite foods while maintaining a food's appealing taste, eat interesting foods that they haven't tried before, and support their health and the health of their present and future family through the diet. An excellent food and nutrition course teaches students thinking and analytical skills, and these skills will be valuable in other subject areas and in other areas of life. Nutrition could also teach students to evaluate the results of nutrition experiments, help them assess the reliability of nutritional claims made on the Internet and reported in the media, help them assess the different nutrient needs of people in different stages of their life cycle, help them to appreciate the different dietary preferences of different groups of people, and introduce them to careers related to food and nutrition.