Blog #8: What I've learned so far

Q: What have you learned how to do since you started working on your senior project?
A: I know dealing it is hard to find the legitimate research when dealing with research, but i have slowly learned how to identify which can be trusted and which can't be. Although, I am still learning, I can somewhat tell research that are formed by the food industries as propaganda and information coming from a real source. 

This is the cover of the book.

This is around the beginning of the book. 

This is the towards the end of the book.

Photo: This is an example of the research I am looking at where I know the food industry does not use to give out false information. I know this because it talks about how the food industry creates false propaganda for their own benefit within the introduction. 


Q: What research helped you to do this and how?*
A: This research helped me out with what I learned because of the facts it stated in the introduction. This book is called Eating for Life by Bill Phillips. Someone else that also helped me was Mr.Ogden because he was the first one to point out that food industries don't always state the truth on their labels and got me digging deep into finding actual research. 

Blog #7: Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

Q: Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
A: So far the only thing I've gotten planned for what I am going to do for my independent component is to go on a diet myself. Well, not a diet, but an attempt on changing what I eat to live a healthy lifestyle. I'm thinking about doing this because this will tell me first hand what it takes to go on this change and how hard it actually is. I would learn how much motivation it takes and what I need to achieve this healthy lifestyle.

Q: Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
A: I plan on meeting the 30 hours required by keeping a food diary and recording everything I eat so that I would be on this diet 24 hours a day,

Q: How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?
A: This relates to my EQ because my goal is to find out how I can change my diet so that I would be able to live a healthy lifestyle, and in order to live a healthy lifestyle I must actually pursue my diet plans and from that I have to find out what it takes to follow through with those plans.

Blog #6: Defining the Essential Question

Essential Question:
What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?

Definitions:

• nutritionally: only regarding the diet, not exercising
• healthy: being free from obesity, anorexia, heart problems (from eating unhealthy foods), etc.
• lifestyle: a diet that I can stick to instead of being temporary

Possible Answers:

• Education (about how to read nutrition labels)
• Understanding the food industry and how they advertise what they call "healthy foods"
• Being able to have the drive to stick to your plan of a healthy lifestyle

Most important source:
My most important source so far was my interview with someone who worked at the gym. She taught me a lot about how to stay healthy and what people should eat. She told me that different people have different diets which made me realize, I need to focus on understanding what is healthy and unhealthy to find what kind of diet is good for me. She also taught me a little about the lies nutrition labels hold that are unknown to the general public.

Blog #5: Second Interview Questions

• What made you want to become a nutritionist?
• What kind of schooling is required for you to become a nutritionist?
• What school did you go to?
• Is this an ideal career?
• How much information do you need, from each patient, to find out what kind of diet to have?
• When you went to college, did you know you wanted to become a nutritionist?