Saturday, September 10, 2011

Analyze the diet - Healthy Diet Pyramid


Healthy Diet Pyramid (image)



Food GroupNumber of Servings /DayExample of 1 Serving
Rice and Alternatives
5-7
  • 2 slices bread (60g)
  • ½ bowl* rice (100g)
  • ½ bowl noodles or beehoon (100g)
  • 4 plain biscuits (40g)
  • 1 thosai (60g)
  • 2 small chapatis (60g)
  • 1 large potato (180g)
  • 1 ½ cup plain cornflakes (40g)
Fruit
2
  • 1 small apple, orange, pear or mango (130g)
  • 1 wedge pineapple, papaya or watermelon (130g)
  • 10 grapes or longans (50g)
  • 1 medium banana
  • ¼ cup*** dried fruit (40g)
  • 1 glass pure fruit juice (250ml)
Vegetables
2
  • ¾ mug** cooked leafy or non-leafy vegetables (100g)
  • ¼ round plate+ cooked vegetables
  • 150g raw leafy vegetables
  • 100g raw non-leafy vegetables
Meat and Alternatives
2-3
  • 1 palm-sized piece fish, lean meat or skinless poultry (90g)
  • 2 small blocks soft beancurd (170g)
  • ¾ cup cooked pulses (e.g. lentils, peas, beans) (120g)
  • 5 medium prawns (90g)
  • 3 eggs (150g)++
  • 2 glasses milk (500 ml)
  • 2 slices of cheese (40g)

* rice bowl ** 250ml mug *** 250ml cup +10 inch plate
++ While 3 eggs are equivalent in protein content to other items listed under the meat and alternatives group, egg yolks are high in cholesterol. Thus, eat no more than 4 egg yolks per week.

For Day 1, I obviously didn't have enough servings for each of the categories, except for fats, oil, sugar and salt, since I consumed a lot of unhealthy food like hamburger, cake and potato chips. Even though those food are rather nice to eat, they are really bad for your body, so I should cut down on those food. I feel like most of the food I consumed on Day 1 do not fit into any of the categories besides fats, oil, sugar and salt.

For Day 2, the cocktail sausages consumed for breakfast should give around 1-2 servings of meat and alternatives. A variety of fruits eaten throughout the day gives me 3 servings of fruits and the veggies for dinner make up 2 servings of vegetables, which is good! :) As for rice and alternatives, I only had 2 servings, so perhaps I could have my breakfast of cocktail sausages together with bread or cornflakes.

For Day 3, I think it is rather big improvement from the previous 2 days. For the vegetable dumpling, it was home cooked by my grandmother and she put a lot of veggies in so I think that should fulfill the 2 servings of vegetables. The 2 slices of watermelon also fit into the 2 serving of fruits nicely :) The beef ramen from a restaurant gives me around 3 serving of rice and alternatives as well as 1 serving of meat and alternatives.




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