1. Xue Qi (20) 207
http://xq-foodandnutrition.blogspot.com/
Xue Qi's blog is neatly organised and it's easy for readers to find the relevant blog posts and information. Her food intake assessment is detailed and informative, and she seems to understand the good and bad points of her current every day diet. She used RDA to view the breakdown of her actual nutritional intake as a comparison and went on to explain the nutritional messages based on the results obtained.
Her one-dish meal is a bowl of meatball macaroni. She starts off by commenting on the bad points of the dish, like how the broth is very salty, before moving on to provide her own suggestions of how to transform this dish into a healthy one, like removing the skin from the chicken breast meat first. The description is simple and easy to digest. Furthermore, she also provided a recipe analysis of her one dish meal, making use of the one from HPB, and came up with the conclusion that chicken macaroni is a healthier choice for a dish as compared to porkball macaroni.
Finally, her reflections show that through this PT, she has come to understand more about her diet and what are the areas in which she can make improvements on to come up with the most suitable healthy diet for herself. She has also learnt more about the various nutritional tools that can be used to assess one's diet, and she seems to understand how useful it can be. I think her blog, on the whole, is detailed yet not too difficult to understand, which is what makes it so enjoyable to look through.
2) Nicole Yee (34) 207
http://blogyourdietpt-nicoleyee207.blogspot.com/
Nicole's blog is extrememly detailed and informative, and she has done a great job of tracking her diet and providing readers with a good food intake assessment. She used various nutritional tools like the RDA to analyse her diet thoroughly, and it's good that she recognises the difficulties of keeping to a healthy diet, for it'll help her to continue to strive to form that healthy diet for herself. She seems to know that she faces difficulty when it comes to controlling her food intake, and her posts are funny and down-to-earth, which is one aspect of this blog that I really like.
The one-dish meal she chose is her favourite dish, Alfredo sauce pasta. In this blog post, she suggests to readers what ingredients they can use to make this dish a healthy yet enjoyable one. For example, she suggests using whole-wheat pasta instead of enriched pasta, for it triples the fibre and reduces the number of calories, and so on.
Her reflections show that she really has a heightened knowlegde of food and nutrition after completing this PT, identifying her weaknesses when it comes to her diet and resolving to use the nutritional tools and such to keep track of what she's eating. Nicole's blog is filled with information but she still manages to keep it real, making it a blog which will interest her readers.
3) Thiyana Ilangchizian (30) 207
http://foodandnutritionperformancetask.blogspot.com
I found Thiyana's blog to be relatively simple, and it's short and sweet style draws readers in to read what she has to say. She managed to track her 3-day diet well, and later analyzed her food intake using the food intake assessment tool provided by the Health Promotion Board. Seeing that she has also posted the nutritional messages based on the results of the assessment show that she has come to a better understanding of her current diet, on what she needs to eat more of, and what she needs to consume less off. Her analysis was through and well done.
Moving on, the one-dish meal she chose to write on was a double cheeseburger which she had consumed on one of the three days while tracking her diet. She provided readers with the ingredients used in the burger and the method of preparation, before going on to write about how she plans on modifying this dish to make it healthier. She has chosen to replace the regular ground turkey which is currently being used with lean ground turkey, as it has a lower fat content. This shows that she knows how to improve on the dish to make it healthier, satisfying the aim of this component.
Based on her reflections, it can be seen that although Thiyana started off this PT with the same begrudging attitude like the other PTs we receive, her outlook has changed after completing it. She now has a greater understanding of her eating habits, managing to identify some bad habits she needs to change, like wasting food and then binging on unhealthy chocolates and sweets. She also mentioned that she is happy she managed to expose herself to various nutritional tools provided online. I really enjoyed reading Thiyana's blog and especially liked her choice of a one-dish meal.
