Essay Miss Smith Case Study – Food Choices Software – Health Assignment Help

Assignment Task :

Introduction

Miss Smith is a female aged 21 years, weighing 74 kg and is 164cm tall. Smith has been battling her weight. A few months ago, Miss Smith begun a new job which made her gain 8kg. She is currently desperate to lose her weight. She has been trying hard lose her weight by attending the gym three nights every week and taking low carbohydrate diet but she has seen no change. She has a BMI of 26.2, making her to be classified as to be at the bottom end of the overweight in relation to the WHO classifications. Before adding 8kg Miss Smith had a fair weight of 66kg with a BMI of 24.6. The preferred healthy weight of Miss Smith would be 49.8-67 kg. The information given by Miss Smith in the tables record all the beverages, food and activity Miss Smith took part in the three-day period, for instance, dinner, lunch, snacks and breakfast. The aim of this task is to assess Miss Smith’s expenditure, energy intake and daily nutrition intake during the three-day period and contest against Nutrient References Values (NRVs) of New Zealand and Australia. 

Results

The data given by Miss Smith was inserted in the FoodChoices software. Even though some of Miss Smith’s food choices were unavailable in the database, the closest resemblance was applied. All results have been estimated since there is no trustworthiness of Miss Smith’s recording.