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What have you learnt about your eating habits?
I have learnt that i have not been leading a very healthy lifestyle. To me, eating healthily means eating vegetables and a variety of food. After calculating the total amount and intake of food, i realised that i have an extremely unhealthy diet. This has put me at high risk of getting certain diseases especially heart diseases.

Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
No. I have been consuming too much energy, sodium and fat and have not been consuming enough calcium and dietary fibre. This pus me at risk of getting diseases such as stroke, diabetes, and other heart diseases.

Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
The tools are useful, however, they have their own limitations.

The tools are useful in helping us calculate the exact amount of calcium, sodium, fat and energy that you have consumed. This will help us make informed choices in choosing what to eat, and what to avoid, as it tells us what kind of food is healthy and what is not.

However, there are certain limitations. The type of food that is listed there is limited, and does not let you choose exactly what you have eaten. This may cause the results to be inaccurate and unreliable. Secondly, there terms used to measure the amount of food consumeed is rather vauge. (for eg, cup) People all have different interpretations of the size of a cup. This also will affect the reliability and acuuracy of the test and calculation.

Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
This meal is healthy as there is no oil being used in this method of cooking - only boiling. The meal is also balanced as there are vegetables (dietary fibre), noodles (carbohydrates) and meat (protein). It also does not have too much salt. This makes the meal healthy and balanced.