Meals on Wheels: Eat Healthy! Project

    This project was about finding healthy diet plan menus with the help of the knowledge we had already gained about nutrients. In this project, we had to choose 2 out of 3 menus that we thought showed the best ways to lose weight, one in accordance to short term exposure and one to long term exposure. We had to create a power point presentation describing why we chose the menus that we chose, inter-wining our choices with facts about nutrients. Our team worked in divisions, one person worked on analyzing Menu 1, another on Menu 2, another on Menu 3, and the last on creating the power point presentation. This, we found, was the most effective way  to accomplish our goals in the project. What I discovered was that a healthy diet has to have a balanced amount of nutrients, even fats, which are condemned as "unhealthy", should be included in your diet because they provide energy and insulation. 
     This project contributed to my science knowledge because it revived my previously learned lessons, and also taught me that the way to a successful diet is knowing your nutrients. Contrary to the popular belief that all of the muffins and fattening buffalo wings in Menu 3 contribute to your weight gain, Menu 3 is actually a popular weight loss program. Why? Because since it contains no carbohydrates, which are also known as our "first-burn", it allows for the fats that are ingested in the diet to be burned quicker and efficiently through exercise. This, however, is a very unhealthy choice in comparison to Menu 2, which gives long term weight loss the benefits of variety and effectualness. Menu 1 and Menu 3 were probably the most diverse from each other. While Menu 3 consisted of mostly fat, Menu 1 consisted of barely any. There was no great variety in Menu 1, as there is in Menu 2 and 3. The only variety visible were the small added portions along the side of the cabbage soup, which is an ongoing occurrence throughout all the days, and the small breakfast options. However, Menu 1 seems like a healthier quick weight loss alternative to Menu 3, striving for the essence of less food rather than less carbohydrates.
     Working on different skills for me was great. I adore working in teams because we get to share our ideas and create a product that might be ten times more innovative than what we would have thought of on our own. Organization is not one of my strong suits, but sometimes when I try, I can be very organized, and that can be a benefit to myself and my team. For example, because this time I attempted to organize what I analyzed in Menu 2, I helped my team create an efficient way to organize our project, which in the end, was helpful. The way I organized things was that I created a key for the amount of nutrients in each diet. For example, menus that had nutrients that were bolded were very rich in the nutrient, if the nutrient was underlined, there was a few amount, and if the nutrient was scratched through, it meant there was none or barely any of that nutrient. As for time management, I am a procrastinator and I like to put things off for the last minute, however, when I do something, I try to accomplish the task to the best of my abilities. I have been working on procrastination, and I think that I am getting better little by little.