We were asked this week to write a one day journal for our food and the value of those foods. The PH value was recorded also. it has been interesting how many B vitamins I consumed. Here is my findings:Daily Food & Lifestyle Journal:
Name: _____Jeanne__
Start Date:
Day _1___
Breakfast
2 soft boiled eggs
Lunch soup home made from:
cabbage, onion, carrot, miso
celery
Dinner
salad with sunflower seeds, romaine,celery
carrot, green pepper, pumpkin seeds
4 oz steak grilled 8 broiled scallops
Water &
Bevarages 1 8oz glass in the A.M.
2 cups coffee at breakfast
1 cup rosehips tea at dinner
Exercise
(Total Minutes) no exercise routine
Emotional States calm, pleasant
(Moods)
Did You Sleep
Uninterrupted? takes a long time to fall a sleep
sleep is always broken
Dream? (Y/N) yes
Morning Energy a little tired at the beginning of the day
(Scale 1-10) (6)
1st Morning pH 6.0
(optional)
Evening Energy calm, content when at home
(Scale 1-10) (9)
Last Evening pH 6.4
(optional)
Bowel Movements normal 2-3 times per day
Vitamins from these foods were:
eggs- B2
soup- K, C, B6, B1, B2, A, B3
salad- K, A, C, B1, B2, B3, B6, E, B5,
Beef Steak- B12,B3, B6, B2
scallops- B12
Here are a few things these vitamins do:
B2= healthy nails, skin, hair growth, thyroid health, antioxidant,
activates vitamin B6, converts carbohydrates, helps transferr electrons in cellular oxidation, energy from protien, helps conversion of typtophan to niacin
B1= neurological, helps in glucose metabolism in diabetes
K= helps in metabolism pathways in bone and tissue, coverts glutamate in proteins in gamma-arboxyglutamate, blood clotting, treating Alzheimers
B3= also known as niacin helps in reducing bad cholesteral levels, helps with DNA repair, production of steroid hormones in the adrenal gland, prevents skin disorders
B6= the liver is the site for B6 metabolism, involved in many aspect of our metabolism, function of gene expression, neuro transmitter synthesis, hystimine synthesis,hemoglobin synthesis
B5= also called pantothenic acid, participates in a wide variety of key biological roles essential to life, wards off irrability, fatigue, synthesize carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
A= needed for the retina of the eye, important for especially low light vision
C= an antioxadant, protects against oxative stress, will not cue a common cold but prevent the frequency of the common cold, many diseases can be directedly from lack of this vitamin
B12= helps in brain and nervous function, involved in metabolism, effects DNA, largest most structually complicated vitamin
E= fat soluable antioxidant, protects cell membranes
