Patient Diet Analysis

Group Members: Cameron, Bryn, Garrett, Harmony_______________________________

Patient # __4__
1. Patients Existing Diet - Look at your patients 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 USDAs 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 patients background information.
Example Diet

RDA

(examples of each
category from your
patients diet)
Calories

2,318

2,000

337.03 grams

130 grams

% Fat

91.21 grams

2 grams

% Protein

74.85grams

52 grams

Sodium

3,55.51 mg

1,500 mg

Calcium

56.2%

1,300 mg

% Carbohydrates

3. Blood Panel Results Compare your patients blood panel results to what is recommended for a
person of the same age and build.
Patient Information

Recommended Averages

Glucose

200 mg

70 mg

Protein

6.7 grams

6.7 grams

LDL

200

110

HDL

25

50

Triglycerides

190

150

Total Cholesterol

225

170

4. Continued AnalysisBeverages have calories; what types of beverages is your patient consuming regularly?It is
essential that the patient stay hydrated. Explain why this contributes to a healthy diet: Our
patient is consuming a Pepsi and 2 sports drinks a day. Staying hydrated will make your
body still function properly. If dehydrated, our patient can die with the amount hes eating
without fluids.
If your patients calorie total was greater than + or - 90 calories from the RDA, explain what
consequences this will have for the patient:
The more calories our patient has, the harder it
will be to burn them off, and the rest will turn into fat and that fat can cause other medical
problems.

Compare and contrast LDL and HDL cholesterol measurements. Look at your patients
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?
A clogged artery can be an effect of high cholesterol levels which can cause heart disease.
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.
Our patient needs to be very mindful of his cholesterol levels and a way to do that is to
check the labels to see if there is a lot of cholesterol in the product or to just cut down on
the fat. Both of these can decrease the amount of cholesterol by a lot.
How can a patient increase their fiber intake?
He can start eating a lot of beans. Theyre healthy and contain a lot of
fiber.
5. Include 1 MLA-formatted citation used to prepare this diet analysis sheet.
"Cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides in Children and Adolescents." - Online
Medical Encyclopedia. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.