Jenny and Travis are four months into their freshman year of college. The two ha

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Jenny and Travis are four months into their freshman year of college. The two have been friends since grade school and find a great deal of comfort in being able to get together for dinner.

Travis loves food, but rarely tries new things. At first, the unfamiliarity of the school dining hall was scary, but once he discovered that he could get a steak and cheese sub seven days a week he was content. For Jenny the adjustment was much more difficult. Jenny has been a semi-vegetarian for many years, and the vegetarian entrees cooked at the dorm are not particularly inspired. Although she eats fish, the cafeteria rarely serves fish that isn’t breaded and deep fried. Typically, Jenny sticks to salads with low fat dressing, low-fat yogurt, or a bowl of cereal with low-fat milk for dinner.

“I am starving!” she told Travis one night at dinner. “There is never anything I want to eat in the dorm and I’m losing a lot of weight. This winter the colder temperatures are bothering me more than usual and I have been so tired. I cannot wait for this weekend. I am going home to have a home cooked meal.” Jenny could not help but smile as Travis’s eyes lit up at the mention of a home cooked dinner. “You want to come?” she asked, knowing the answer would be a resounding, “Yes.”

When they arrived the house was filled with the wonderful aromas of home cooking. There were hot rolls, salad with olive oil and vinegar, grilled salmon, and fresh chocolate chip cookies for dessert. They sat down to dinner and after just one bite, Travis decided this was the best meal he had ever had. He did not hesitate to ask for a second helping of everything. Jenny ate a big meal as well. As she spread some margarine on her roll, she could not help but smile seeing her best friend enjoying his dinner.

Then came dessert. Jenny’s parents served the chocolate chip cookies with some low-fat frozen yogurt, both of which were delicious. “Now I made the cookies with real butter,” Jenny’s father reminded his wife who had been cautiously watching her cholesterol. She was stuffed after a big meal anyway, so she skipped the cookies. Still, she enjoyed watching the kids devour their desserts. Travis gracefully thanked Jenny parents for the meal on their way back to school. Her parents told him he could come back any time.

Questions:

Travis eats steak and cheese subs every day of the week. Explain the types of fat, as well as the properties of each type that are found in the sub.

Explain why Jenny is feeling tired and more sensitive to the cold temperatures and what dietary factors may have caused some of the symptoms she experienced.

What type of fats are found in the salmon and how does it differ from the fat in the steak and cheese sub?

What are the benefits of using olive oil to flavor the salad?

Margarine on the roll, and butter in the cookies: compare and contrast the two sources of fat

The chocolate chip cookie: what other ingredients contain cholesterol?

Provide meal alternatives to Travis while he is at school.

Discuss ways to decrease your cholesterol intake.

List sources of omega-3 and omega 6 if you are a vegetarian and does not eat meat products.

Develop a day’s meal plan (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks that are healthy).

Explanation / Answer

Cheese and steaks are the source of fats .Subs contains saturated fats and trans fatty acids which is unhealthy for heart.

Jenny is feeling weak and tired as she is eating lesser proteins.Proteins are the building blocks of the body also it is required for proper functioning of the muscles.Less protein in diet means weakness which Jenny is suffering from.She is feeling cold as she also lacks fats in her diet.In all she is also loosing weight due to the lesser lipids in her diet.

Omega 3 fatty acids are present in salmons which are considered as good fat. Fat in the steak and cheese sub contains saturated fat which is unhealthy.

Olive oil is a unsaturated fat which is healthy and used to flavour the salad.

Margarine is made from vegetable oils, so it contains unsaturated "good" fats — polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. These types of fats help reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol when substituted for saturated fat.Butter, on the other hand, is made from animal fat, so it contains more saturated fat.

He could consume diets rich in unsaturated fats like food cooked in olive oil and may increase the uptake of salmon.He could cut on the sub which contains high amount of saturated fats.

By choosing healthy fats and cutting down on saturated fats which is found in red meat and dairy products.Also eliminate trans fats in the diet.Eat foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids.

Omega 3 fatty acids- flax seed oil,walnuts

omega 6 fatty acids- peanut butter,seasame oil

Breakfast

AM Snack

Lunch

PM Snack

Dinner

other hand, is made from animal fat, so it contains more saturated fat.

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