Checkpoint #1: Honors Patient Diet Analysis

Name: ​Addie Schlegel​ Patient #​005

1. Patient’s Existing Diet​ - Look at your patient’s information. Determine the following based on the
questionnaire the patient completed. Fill in the information in the “Example Diet” column.
2. Recommended Daily Allowance ​– Determine what a healthy meal plan would be for your patient.
Provide healthy amounts of each category based on your patient’s background information.
3. Answer the following. Make sure you use correctly formatted in-text for each question.
Remember-these should match your work cited portion of the checkpoint.

Example Diet RDA

What is your patient What should your
currently eating? patient be eating?
Calories about 2762 2400-2600
Carbohydrates 427g 130g-250g
Fat 714 400-700
Protein 77g 46g
Sodium 2857 less than 2300
Calcium 1594mg 1000mg

4. Blood Panel Results​– Compare your patient’s blood panel results to what is recommended for a person
of the same age and build.

Patient Information Recommended Averages

Glucose 110 mg/dl below 200
Protein 7.3 g/dl 6-8.3g
LDL 155 less than 100
HDL 45 above 60
Triglycerides 185 less than 150
Total Cholesterol 200 less than 200

4. Continued Analysis Paragraph must include:

Patient #005 is consuming four servings of apple and orange juice and drinking two McDonald’s
Frappes every day. This is an unhealthy daily drink consumption. Apple juice, orange juice, and frappe’s all
contain a large amount of unhealthy sugars. He needs to be drinking much more water rather than sugary drinks.
Apple juice and orange juice are not the worst but two servings of each is probably too much. In the future, he
has a possibility of developing type two diabetes if he continues with his unhealthy eating habits but right now
he is not at risk because he is not overweight. He has a high calorie intake which can lead to increased weight
which in turn leads to type two diabetes. Neither his LDL or HDL are healthy. He needs to decrease his LDL
and increase his HDL. This can lead to risk of a heart attack because LDL blood clots can build up in his blood
vessels. Patient 005 has a moderately healthy cholesterol level. If he did need to lower it he should be eating
more unsaturated fats and less saturated fats. Also, increasing fiber and protein can really help. In relation to
fiber, it helps to eat whole wheat whenever possible. Eating more fiber would have positive effects on my
patients health and it is something I would recommend. Overall, my patient is fairly healthy in his eating and
physical exercise but his blood results indicate he has some work to do.
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