{"id":33636,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/nutrition-for-older-adults-assignment"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:20:23","slug":"nutrition-for-older-adults-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/nutrition-for-older-adults-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition for Older Adults Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Nutrition for Older Adults Assignment<\/p>\n<p>Dorothea is 76 years old. She has lived alone since her husband died 6 years ago. She has always been thin but has lost weight since she lost her husband. She eats <\/p>\n<p>alone and gets little exercise. Her meal patterns have deteriorated. A typical day\u2019s diet is listed below. <\/p>\n<p>Typical Diet<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast<br \/> Toast 2 slices<br \/> with margarine 2 tsp<br \/> and jelly 2 tsp<br \/> Milk, whole 1 cup<br \/> Coffee 2 cups<br \/> with cream 2 tsp<\/p>\n<p>Lunch<br \/> Bologna 2 slices<br \/> on white bread 2 slices<br \/> Mayonnaise 2 tsp<br \/> Lettuce 1 leaf<br \/> Peaches 2 halves<br \/> Milk, whole 1 cup <\/p>\n<p>Dinner<br \/> Fish sticks 3<br \/> French fries 1\/2 cup<br \/> Green beans 1\/2 cup<br \/> Ice cream 1\/2 cup<\/p>\n<p>1. Make recommendations to improve her diet and help her get back to her usual weight. <\/p>\n<p>2. What type of exercise would help her to safely increase her activity level? Use the Exercise Guidelines for Older Adults on page 628 in your textbook to help you <\/p>\n<p>with your answer. <\/p>\n<p>3. Based off of her current diet, is she at risk for developing any chronic diseases? If so, list them and explain why she is at increased risk. <\/p>\n<p>4. What types of special programs for the elderly might be of benefit for Dorothea? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition for Older Adults Assignment Dorothea is 76 years old. She has lived alone since her husband died 6 years ago. She has always been thin but has lost weight since she lost her husband. She eats alone and gets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/nutrition-for-older-adults-assignment\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}