Roger is a starting guard on his college basketball team. He is a leader on his

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Roger is a starting guard on his college basketball team. He is a leader on his team, stays after practice to work on his shots, and is busy with academic and community life on campus. Because of his hectic schedule, he has little time for meal planning, grocery shopping, and food preparation. Dinner is usually consumed at the athletics training table during the week, and the rest of his meals are consumed either at home or at local restaurants. A 3-day food record kept by Roger recently was analyzed using a nutrition software program. The analysis revealed overall energy intake was not meeting his estimated needs, and vitamins A, C, and folate were consistently low throughout the 3-day period. The rest of the vitamins and minerals met the minimum RDA or AI requirements.

1. What questions should you ask Roger about his typical daily diet?

2. What recommendations do you have for Roger to improve his dietary intake of vitamins and energy?

3. How can you help Roger meet these recommendations?

Explanation / Answer

1. How many food servings he consume in a day? How much does he intake the carbohydrates, proteins and lipids? What are food sources of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids he consume? What are vitamin and mineral sources in his diet?

2. To improve his dietary intake of vitamins and energy he should consume eggs, carrots, green leafy vegetables, Citru fruits (For vitamin A, C and folate) grains, protein shakes, energy drinks and boiled tubers etc.

3. By preparing a diet chart and providing all necessary information about nutritional facts of food and suggest them to follow regularly can help him meet the dietary recommendations.

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