Reflection!

I learnt a few things from the process of doing this PT. Firstly, I learnt more about my eating habits, which are quite regular, which are 3 meals everyday. However, I could improve on this as I could eat fruits before dinner everyday to supplement the 'Fruits' category in the Healthy Diet Pyramid.

I also realised that my diet is quite unhealthy. I realise that I eat a lot of fatty and oily food, such as oily meat, which is not good as it causes high sodium and fat intake. My diet can also cause diseases such as osteoporosis, due to the lack of calcium in my diet. I also learnt what measures to take so that my diet is balanced and healthy, such as eating more fruits and vegetables!

I find that the suggested nutritional tools are helpful in helping me analyse my diet, as they help me see what components of my diet are too high or too low, and the different food types, and whether they are healthy or not healthy. It also helped me face the fact that my diet really is unhealthy, such as high in sodium.
I think that my dish, fish soup, is healthy, as it includes healthy ingredients such as tomatoes and vegetables. It also has seafood such as prawn and fish, which is much healthier than oily and fatty meat. However, there is one downside to the nutritional tools, and that is some of the foods that I ate were not logged in into the database, therefore making the analysis of my diet slightly unreliable.

I feel that my healthy dish is healthy because it uses healthy ingredients, such as green vegetables and tomatoes, which are high in dietary fibre, nutrients and vitamins. Also, it has seafood such as fish and prawns, which are healthier than meat as it is lower in saturated fat and sodium content. Also, the dish does not make use of any flavouring or sauces which are high in sodium content.

Overall, I find that this PT is really useful in helping me understand more about the unhealthiness of my diet and the measures I can take to improve it and make it more balanced and healthy. Also, it opened my eyes to the diseases and problems that such a diet can cause, which really helps to push me to make my diet a healthier one.