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Topic: What Should You Eat?

You probably want to live a long and healthy life on this earth. What are you willing to do to make that possible? Here is an assignment that can improve the quality of what you eat, and hence, the quality of your life. Let's develop the rudiments of a maintenance diet for you—a desirable, workable, realistic, non-faddish maintenance diet—one you follow permanently. You have several reference sources:

- the Bible’s many prescriptive texts regarding nutrition (ignore “descriptive” texts)

- your textbook’s chapter on biomolecules; how they are built and used

- the course Presentation entitled “Biomolecules and Nutrition”

- trustworthy sources such as

- USDA MyPlate: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/MyPlate-Daily-Checklist

- the Mayo Clinic website. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle

- Very Well website (David Katz’ site): https://www.verywell.com/

- Web MD: http://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm

The foods you select will contain the same classes of biomolecules that you read about in your textbook: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins, and minerals. Use the following procedure to build your diet.

For your Thread:

1. Click on the link below. This will give you a Word document “work table” to add your foods to. You may wish to print a copy for research purposes.

What Should I Eat - Work Table.docx Click for more options

2. Go to the “My Plate Check List Calculator https://www.choosemyplate.gov/MyPlate-Daily-Checklist-input Enter your data to determine how many calories your daily diet should contain. Record this number in your work table.

3. Now go to the USDA MyPlate web site: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/MyPlate-Daily-Checklist In the Table, about the middle of the page click on the box representing your caloric needs. Some serving amount data will pop up allocated into 5 food groups.

4. Record the suggested serving amounts in your work table to give quantitative values to the categories you will build your diet around.

“What Should I Eat?” – Work Table:

Total Calories:

/per day

Food Group:

Biomolecules in this Group in Order of Relative Biomass*

Serving Amount:

My Food Choices:

10 Fruits

Carbs, Proteins, Oils

My first food, my second food, my third food, my fourth food, etc.

12 Vegetables

Carbs, Proteins, Oils

12 Grains

Carbs, Proteins, Oils

9 Proteins

Proteins, Fats, Oils

7 Dairy Items

Depends on the Food

*as a generalization

5. Start to choose foods using the guideline comments given on the webpage. Use other web pages listed above to get commentary on foods you think (!) are healthy for you. Here are two useful ones to give you ideas:

https://www.verywell.com/macronutrients-made-simple-4128991 , https://www.verywell.com/the-basics-of-a-healthy-balanced-diet-2506675

6. Delete the sample foods listed in the “Fruits” category. They are there to show you the format for your own additions. List specific foods that you would eat for each group according the numbers indicated in the first column. The second column of the table will help you with your category accuracy. Do not reuse any food under a second category. You will thus select 50 foods for your diet—not a huge variety, but it's a start! “Leafy greens” or “seafood” are food categories, not specific foods.

7. “Mouse over the upper left-hand corner of the table to find the tiny navigation box and click on it. This highlights (“selects”) the whole table. Copy it to your computer’s “clipboard”. You can now paste this table into the “Message Box” of your open “Thread” in the discussion board. Along with your table, you may submit up to two prescriptive Bible passages that you feel most constrain your dietary thinking.

Hints:

• Your goal is always to improve your own list. Please include about 70 words for your diet (50 foods, some hyphenated as needed) with space left over for two Bible verses for a total of 120 words. That’s your limit!

• Foods differ in their density of a wide variety of nutrients as compared to just the calories they give you. Which sweet would be better for you: hard candy or a fig bar?

• What is in the food item you've selected? Check out: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ to find out.

• Suppose Mayo Clinic wisdom and Biblical wisdom seem to conflict. Which source will you defer to and why?

Rubric – Discussion Board #1

Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Content 70%

Advanced 90-100% (A)

Proficient 70-89% (B-C)

Developing 1-69% (< D)

Not present

Key Components: Calories/day, Serving Amounts, Food Choices Present

Points 7

All key components are present with reasonable numerical values and required number of foods in each Food Group.

Points 5 to 6

All key components are present with plausible numerical values and most of the required number of foods in each Food Group.

Points 1 to 4

Some key components are present with plausible numerical values and some foods found in each Food Group.

0 Points

No key components are present, and no foods are listed.

Quality of Food Choices

Points 13 to 14

Raw fruits, some dark, and ample leafy green vegetables, whole grains, lean meats with at least two plant protein sources, low fat dairy sources

Points 10 to 12

Raw fruits, some leafy green vegetables, whole and refined grains, variety of meats with only one plant protein source, variety of dairy sources

Points 1 to 9

Largely processed fruits and few leafy green vegetables, processed grains, variety of meats with no plant protein sources, standard high fat dairy sources

0 Points

No foods listed

Quality of Two Student Critiques

10.5/reply X 2

Points 19 to 21

Critiques suggest an excellent food choice substitution and quantitatively defend the substitution.

Points 15 to 18

Critiques suggest a valid food choice substitution and qualitatively defend the substitution.

Points 1 to 14

Critiques suggest a questionable food choice substitution and weakly defend the substitution.

0 Points

Critiques are not submitted

Structure 30%

Advanced 90-100% (A)

Proficient 70-89% (B-C)

Developing 1-69% (< D)

Not present

Grammar/Spelling

Points 7 to 8

Is grammatically correct and clear. Contains no spelling errors.

Points 6

Is grammatically largely correct and clear. Contains minimal spelling errors.

Points 1 to 5

Is grammatically minimally correct and barely clear. Contains multiple spelling errors.

0 Points

No submission of thread.

Word Count - Threads

Points 4

Within 120 words

Points 3

Within 150 – 120 words

Points 1 to 2

Over 200 words

0 Points

No words

Sentence Format for Replies

1.5/reply X 2

Points 3

Student uses two, numbered sentences of about 50 words each to present their critique of each peer’s choices

Points 2

Student uses two, numbered sentences of about 30 words each to present their critique of each peer’s choices

Points 1

Student uses a brief paragraph of less than 30 words each to present their critique of each peer’s choices

0 Points

Student uses no words to reply.

Word Count - Replies

1.5/reply X 2

Points 3

Within 100 words

Points 2

Within 150 – 120 words or less than 60 words

Points 1

Over 200 words or under 30 words

0 Points

No words