Calculate % Usual Body Weight Using the Following Formula

NUTR 35.210LAB 4

OBJECTIVE:To assess and evaluate vitamin/mineral status to determine the safety and necessity of using supplements.

For this lab, you will focus on vitamin and mineral deficiencies and toxicities.For each assessment category (ABCDE) you will complete an assessment. Once you have gathered all your data, you will decide if you are in danger of any deficiencies or toxicities and make a plan to either increase or decrease intake, depending on your findings.

To perform a full nutrition assessment, you want to gather as much information as possible about a person’s nutritional health.The ABCDE method stands for:

Anthropometric:

Calculate % usual body weight using the following formula:

%UBW = (100 x Actual Weight)/Usual body weight

Biochemical: For this you will measure your blood pressure in class as an indication of sodium, magnesium, and potassium status.Record blood pressure in raw data table.

Clinical:Use the Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities: Clinical Assessment Chart to identify any clinical signs of vitamin or mineral deficiency or toxicity.

Dietary:Use your two-day day food diary to analyze intake of nutrients.Instructions for entering dietary data into the computer program to analyze your diet are as follows:

1. Go to
2. Create a profile using your information.
3. Click on Track Food &Activity- a drop down will appear.
4. Once in the Super Tracker you will enter all the foods you ate.Record everything you ate, and be sure to be as accurate as possible. DO NOT forget to include all liquids- portions count here too.
5. By the “Related Links” tab you can choose “Nutrient Intake Report”. Run the report and export this as a word document then PRINT 1 copy of the Nutrient Intake report.

Environment:Identify environmental factors that can influence vitamin and mineral status like financial barriers, living situations, jobs, etc.that would impact what food you can purchase.

Lab report (Please type the final report)

Introduction:

Your introduction should include a short title for this lab.

You also need a discussion of why this lab is important, what you hope to learn from it, and what the information gathered can be used for.

Materials and Procedures:

This section should include a list of any materials or supplies you used to complete this lab.

You also need to include a step by step description of what you did during this lab.

Results and Analysis:

Please include,

Raw data table - make sure you create a descriptive title for you raw data table

Raw data: two-day food journal

Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities: Clinical Assessment sheet

Yournutrient analysis report that analyzes your dietary data (from choosemyplate.gov)

Conclusions:

Create a table that includes TOTAL intake (from food and supplements) for all vitamins and minerals listed in the nutrient analysis report.

Use the ABCDE method to summarize your findings about your nutrition status. Make sure to discuss whether any suspected deficiencies or toxicities put you at a health risk.If so, discuss how you can reduce health risks.

Conclusions Part 2:

Using thetable you created in the Conclusions, add another column titled “supplements”. In this column, enter the nutrition information from the back of the bottle of any micronutrients supplements you take. If you do not take any supplements, find a multivitamin and mineral supplement (you can search online, or borrow a friend’s bottle) and add the nutrition information for all the micronutrients that are on your table. Now create one more row that adds your usual intake with your supplemental intake. Do you think most Americans need to take supplements?

Raw data table:

Anthropometric/ Biochemical:

Please create a title for this raw data table:

Clinical

Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities: Clinical Assessment Chart (CIRCLE ANY THAT APPLY TO YOU)

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