Reflction

With this, my PT is complete. Here is my reflection:)

- What have you learnt about your eating habits?
I learnt that my eating habits may not be very healthy. I have consumed too much salt, way over the recommended amount of daily intake. I have always liked salty food, so normally, I prefer to add in soy sauce to my rice. Adding the salt from other food, the total amount of salt I consume is quite high. Not only that, I don't really like to eat vegetables and prefer not to eat them if I get the chance. That resulted in my lack of dietary fibre intake. I should start eating more vegetables and start cutting down on the amount of salty food I eat. I should also make an attempt to make my eating habits healthier :)

- Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
I do not really think that my diet is very healthy. I don't think that I have eaten enough vegetables and fruits. From time to time, I might have eaten some vegetables but only a few pieces and I rarely eat fruits.  I prefer junk food over the normal meal. Not much junk food is seen in my diet for the past three days as I have been mostly eating out for the past few days so I didn't get much chances to eat much. I think that I should cut down on the junk food and fried food that I prefer eating and eat more vegetables and fruits.

- Are the suggested nutritional tools useful too? How?
The nutritional tools are useful as helps me to develop a further understanding of my diet. The food intake assessment present me with a detailed analysis of my diet. It helps me to find out exactly what is wrong with my diet and gives me suggestions on how I might want to improve on my diet so make it healthier. However, it is a little time consuming. The healthy food pyramid is also useful because of its simplicity. I can easily compare my diet to the pyramid to find out what type of food do my diet need to be healthy or how many more servings of food I need.

- Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
It is healthier than before because, the addition of vegetables increase the intake of dietery fibre as well as other vitamins that the vegetable may contain. Not only that, by adding lesser cheese and sauce helps to decrease the intake of fats and sodium. Wholemeal spaghetti should be used as wholemeal products are healthier in general.