Patient Diet Analysis

Your name: Nixon Sykes

Patient # 6
Answer the following questions. Make sure that you use correctly-formatted in-text citations that match
the works that you cited in #5.
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 – Use the USDA’s “Choose My Plate” website to help
determine what a healthy meal plan would be for your patient. Provide healthy amounts of each category
based on your patient’s background information.
Example Diet RDA
(What is your patient currently (What should your patient be
eating?) eating?)

Calories Approximately 2843 per day 1400-2400 per day

Amount 259 grams with snacks At least 130 grams

Carbohydrate 225-300 for athletics days

Amount Fat 268.6 grams with snacks 50-125 grams

Amount Protein 47g with snacks 48g per day for your weight

Sodium 6,518 with snacks Less than 2300

Calcium 246 mg per day 1300 mg per day

3. 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 75 65-99 g/dl

Protein 5.2 6-8.3

LDL 90 Less than 100

 HDL 75 40 or higher

Triglycerides 140 Less than 149

Total Cholesterol 165 Less than 200

4. Continued Analysis-
Beverages have calories. What types of beverages is your patient consuming regularly? Explain
the negative and/or positive consequences of your patient’s beverage choices on their diet and
health.
My patient regularly drinks beverages such as coffee, grape juice, and soda, all of which are
terrible for her health. Soda and grape juice both contain extremely high levels of unnatural sugar
that our bodies don’t deal with quite well and on top of that there are no good things in soda or
juice to balance out all the sugar. She also drinks coffee regularly, coffee contains high levels of
caffeine, and caffeine plays a contributing factor in things such as: High Cholesterol, Ulcers,
Headaches, and complications with pregnancies (“10 Things Coffee Does to Your Body”, March
25, 2013).

Look at your patient’s carbohydrate measurements. Analyze your patient’s risk of developing
high blood sugar and/or type 2 diabetes.
My patient eats well over the daily carb requirement but actually she already has a type of
diabetes most likely due to the high carb intake

If your patient’s calorie total was greater than + or - 90 calories from the RDA, explain what
health consequences this will have for the patient:
Well my patients calorie intake was over 400 over the RDA. This will greatly affect her
health, when you consume excess calories some is converted into glycogen but most is put in the
fat storage which will increase weight gain dramatically if it takes place over an extended period
of time. (“How Does Your Body Store Excess Calories”)

Compare and contrast LDL and HDL cholesterol measurements. What’s the difference between
these? Which is healthier? Look at your patient’s Triglyceride, HDL and LDL measurements. If
your patient is outside of the recommended averages for these measurements, what are the
implications for his/her health?
For my patient both the LDL and HDL are in the recommended range; however, HDL is
the healthier cholesterol and the level should be higher than the LDL levels. HDL acts as a
scavenger and moves the LDL back to the liver where it can be further broken down, if the HDL
levels are lower the LDL will be able to stay in the arteries and contribute to fatty build-ups
which lead to heart failures (“HDL (Good), LDL (Bad) Cholesterol and Triglycerides”, July 5th,
2017). The triglycerides are the most common fat in the body and my patients triglyceride levels
are fine at the moment.

What could a patient do to improve their cholesterol numbers? Give multiple suggestions of
factors and actions that could affect cholesterol numbers? Does your patient need to be mindful
of cholesterol? Explain.
Anybody can easily prevent high cholesterol, it is simply a matter of eating and
maintaining a healthy diet and staying as active as possible. Doing this will keep your weight
down and decrease the risk of developing high cholesterol. The only thing my patient needs to
worry about is keeping her LDL levels down, she can do that by doing the things I previously
mentioned, by doing those she can keep her LDL levels lower than her HDL levels.

How can a patient increase their fiber intake? Why is fiber essential to a healthy diet?
Fiber helps move food through the digestive system to help speed up the process of
digestion. You can increase your fiber intake by eating foods that are high in fiber. Fruits have
fiber and you should certainly be eating a good amount of fruit, but stay away from juice, juice
does not have the fiber that is contained in the meat of the fruit. (“The Nutrition Source”, April
12, 2016)
 Honors Project Checkpoint #2-Cancer and Health

Answer the following. Make sure to use correctly-formatted in-text citations that match the works
cited in #9.
1. Define cancer in your own words: Uncontrolled cell division in a tissue in the body
2. Describe how cancer develops and it’s connection with mitosis:
Cancer develops when a cell mutates and begins to go through mitosis over and over
again uncontrollably
3. Define Metastasis. In a timeline, list the steps for how metastasis occurs.
When the cancer cells start to spread to and infect other parts of the body than where is began.

Cells from a tumor break The cells is carried It multiplies and New tumor is called
off into the bloodstream to another location creates a second a metastatic tumor
tumor

4. What cancers have been scientifically linked to poor nutrition and obesity? For each, state
why scientists think poor nutrition or obesity is a contributing factor.
Obesity and poor nutrition have been linked to colon cancer, breast cancer, kidney
cancer, and pancreas cancer. Excess body fat resulting from poor nutrition can affect insulin
levels, estrogen levels, and how well the immune system works. Fat tissue produces excess
estrogen which can lead to breast cancer. High levels of insulin in obese individuals can lead to
colon, kidney, and pancreas cancer.
5. For the cancers that you described in #4, list the ethnicities that most often get these
cancers.
Colon- black, Kidney- black, Pancreas- black, breast - white

6. What foods/diets are linked to lowered cancer risks? (Hint: Looking up “antioxidants” and
describing what they do would be good here)
To prevent cancer a healthy and balanced diet to keep weight down would be good; however, a
diet with a large amount of antioxidants would be even better. “Anti oxidants help prevent cell
damage from oxidants” (What Are Antioxidants, Really?, Sophia Breene). There are foods that
are rich in antioxidants that should be implemented in a healthy diet, such as: Dark green
vegetables, sweet potatoes, red berries, blueberries, grapes, walnuts, and pomegranates.

7. Describe how at least one of the following factors also relates to cancer: genetics, lifestyle,
stress, environmental factors.
There are a lot of environmental factors that cause cancer; these are called carcinogens.
Sunlight is a good example, lots of sun exposure without protection can lead to skin cancer. The
UV radiation can damage the cells and cause them to turn cancerous.

8. Give a detailed analysis of your patient’s risk for developing cancer later in life. Include in
your analysis ALL of the following: genetics (family history), nutrition, antioxidant intake,
ethnicity, lifestyle, environmental factors in this area.
My patient has a higher risk of developing cancer than the general population. Her family
history of colon cancer increases her risk of developing colon cancer. Her antioxidant intake is
very low, other than the salads she barely gets any from her daily diet. Her daily diet is also very
unhealthy, there is a very high carb intake resulting in poor health. My patient also does not get
enough exercise so she doesn’t give her body a chance to burn off all the fat she is regularly
consuming.
 Works Cited

“7 Super Antioxidant Rich Foods.” ActiveBeat, www.activebeat.com/diet-nutrition/7-super-antioxidant-

rich-foods/7/.

“Does Body Weight Affect Cancer Risk?” American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-

causes/diet-physical-activity/body-weight-and-cancer-risk/effects.html.

“Obesity and Cancer.” National Cancer Institute, www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-

prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet.

“What Are Antioxidants, Really?” Greatist, 23 Aug. 2016, greatist.com/health/what-are-

antioxidants.

Robert T. Gonzalez / i09. “10 Things Coffee Does to Your Body.” Alternet, 25 Mar. 2013,
www.alternet.org/drugs/10-things-coffee-does-your-body.

“How Does Your Body Store Excess Calories?” Healthy Eating | SF Gate,
healthyeating.sfgate.com/body-store-excess-calories-9627.html.

“HDL (Good), LDL (Bad) Cholesterol and Triglycerides.” HDL (Good), LDL (Bad) Cholesterol
and Triglycerides, 5 June 2017,
www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Cholesterol/HDLLDLTriglycerides/HDL-Good-
LDL-Bad-Cholesterol-and-Triglycerides_UCM_305561_Article.jsp#.WcrEqGhSw2w.

“Fiber.” The Nutrition Source, 12 Apr. 2016,

www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/fiber/.