food journal and vitamins

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