Health (Mr

Health - Mr. Post - John Marshall HIgh School

The student will obtain greater awareness about the nutritional strengths and weaknesses of their diet. The student will then be more informed to make good nutritional choices.

MyPyramid Tracker is an online dietary assessment tool offered by the United States Department of Agriculture. It provides information on your diet quality, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient information. After providing a day's worth of dietary information, you will receive an overall evaluation by comparing the amounts of food you ate to current nutritional guidance. To give you a better understanding of your diet over time, you can track what you eat for up to one year.

The student will maintain a 3-day journal of all food, beverages, snacks and condiments they eat and drink.

a) On the bottom of the page, click new user registration.

b) Enter your information (NOTE: write down your user id and password so you’ll remember it) and click submit. Complete your profile on the linked page with the information requested. BE ACCURATE! This information will ONLY be used by the program to calculate your daily requirements, and will NOT be known to your classmates or the teacher. (NOTE: when entering the calendar date, select the date of your FIRST journal day).

c) Click save today’s changes

d) Click proceed to food intake

4. Entering your journal information into MyPyramid Tracker:

a) Enter a food item and click search. Look for the result that most closely matches the food you’re looking for (NOTE: for foods you eat frequently, add them to your ‘frequently used foods list’—this is a great time saver). Once you have located your food item, click it to add it to your list of foods eaten. It will then appear on the right side of the screen.

b) Repeat step ‘a’ for all food and beverages listed in your journal for day 1.

c) Click select quantity

d) Click <please select a serving size> for an item, and select the amount that most closely matches what you ate. Then enter the number of servings, based on the ‘serving size’ you chose, to exactly match how much you ate. Repeat this for all foods listed.

e) Click print food record

f) Click save & analyze

g) On the ‘analyze your food intake’ page, click Calculate DG Comparison. Select an option, click Go! and print a copy.

h) On the bottom of this page, click MyPyramid Recommendation. Print a copy.

i) On the bottom of this page, click Nutrient Intakes. Click the here link to see your nutrient profile with technical assessment information and print a copy.

Repeat step ‘4’ until all 3 journal days are entered—here’s how: at the top of this page, click update profile. On the ‘Login’ page, click calendar, click the date of your next journal entry and click proceed to food intake. Now enter all food information just as you did earlier, following steps 4a – 4i.
When you’re done entering and printing all 3 days, click calculate nutrient history on the bottom of the ‘nutrient intakes’ page. On the left side of this “Healthy Eating History’ page, find the ‘nutrient intakes’ section. Click the following links, and print a page for each of the following:

· Food Energy (kcals)

· Protein

· Carbohydrate

· Total Fat

· Sodium

On each of your daily food records that you printed out, mark comments that you would recommend if you were your own nutritional counselor. Mark reductions, deletions, substitutions, additions, etc. that would bring your diet more in line with the recommendations made by the MyPyramid analysis.

Grading for this project will be based on completion of the required components, NOT the quality of the nutritional choices you entered. Click on the grading rubric which shows all the requirements and point breakdown.