Healthy Eating Trials

In Week One, my diet showed poor alignment with the food pyramid recommendations. I consumed 0% of the recommended milk intake, 0% of the recommended meat and beans intake, 0% of the recommended vegetable intake, 47% of the recommended fruit intake, and 0% of the recommended grain intake. My diet consisted primarily of fruit in Week One and it has not changed since then. As the nutrient intake chart demonstrates, my diet is extremely low in the vital nutrients needed for a healthy diet. I am only obtaining one-fortieth of the recommended allowance of protein, for example, and my levels of most vitamins and minerals are a tiny fraction of the recommended allowance. My diet is woefully inadequate according to the food pyramid and nutrient intake recommendations.

There are several reasons that my diet has not changed despite the fact that the healthy eating assignments has made me aware of my dietary shortcomings. These are lifestyle-related. The first is that I do not live at home or in a dorm, where a healthy selection of food alternatives would be provided. I live in an apartment, and I have to prepare all of my own food. Although I know how to prepare a few simple things, they are not particularly nutritious-just easy to make. I am not really a cook, and I do not want to eat packaged processed foods, as they are loaded with chemicals and may contain genetically modified ingredients. Furthermore, I am just not particularly fond of most vegetables ot

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rom natural, whole foods with no chemical additives but prepared in powdered form so that they can just be stirred into a glass of water or juice. In reading about the benefits of freshly prepared vegetable juice, I realized that I could buy pre-cleaned organic carrots and other raw vegetables such as celery and romaine at Costco. Then I could just run a pound of carrots, a couple of stalks of celery, and a half a head of romaine through a vegetable juicer with a couple of apples or oranges to get a glass of juice that is teeming with nutrients and live enzymes. By adding a superfood powder such as Boku to the juice, I would have a "meal" prepared in just a couple of minutes. With a couple more minutes for cleaning the juicer, I would be out the door in less than five minutes. The Boku contains the missing vitamins and minerals that my current diet lacks, and it is completely natural-no chemicals. Although I dislike eating vegetables in their whole form, I love fresh juice for its excellent flavor. Unlike the commercial juices, my fresh juice will have no added sugar and will not be pasteurized, so it will retain all of the nutrients and enzymes I am drinking it for. For my protein intake, I can make protein "shake

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