Open AccessApplication of the Nutrition Tools under a Study in Order to Develop a Menu to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle
Author(s) -
Ramona Suharoschi,
Elens Pop,
Mihaela Lazăr,
Cristina Anamaria Semeniuc,
Ancuţa Mihaela Rotar,
Marius Simion Morar,
C. Laslo,
Doru Pamfil
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of university of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine cluj-napoca. agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1843-5386
pISSN - 1843-5246
DOI - 10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:6597
Subject(s) - meal , anthropometry , order (exchange) , consumption (sociology) , environmental health , healthy food , process (computing) , set (abstract data type) , medicine , psychology , gerontology , business , food science , computer science , biology , social science , finance , pathology , sociology , programming language , operating system
: Eating is the basis for life and a permanent acting factor that determines metabolic process development and the food is the source and controller for the exchange process. Food is achieved by daily consumption of varying amounts of aliments or food products. A diet (menu) is a set of dishes which are obtained by grouping in a certain order the food consumed at one meal or one day. Planning diet is a scientific tool to make an “intelligent” diet addressed to various healthy or unhealthy people.
The daily menu provides the necessary food for 24 hours, by categories of consumers, according to the body's physiological requirements. This study’s main aim was to detect improper eating habits or nutritional problems of individuals in order to planned (designing) and develop a menu to ensure a balanced and healthy diet. Initially we assessed the volunteers’ health by questionnaire, medical test and anthropometric data. Then with the help of nutritional programs we have developed for each volunteer a planned menu, ensuring the requirements for variety, seasonality and the strength of satiation, including scientific parameters (as GI, and inflammation factor).
This study was conducted for one month, during which each volunteer was req