(Final Paper Assignment)
When you accompany one of your family members on a visit to the doctor’s office, the doctor diagnoses him or her with having a high risk for type II diabetic mellitus. The doctor urgently suggests he or she modify his/her living style to delay the progression of diabetes. You want to help your family member to improve his/her current health status. In our nutrition class, we have discussed chronic disease prevention. The most effective approach to address this issue is to reduce and prevent underlying risk factors, including physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and stress management. The breadth of connections between behavior and health is formidable. Your final assignment focusses on how you will help this person to improve health status by modified his/her dietary intake.
Part I: Identify problem (1-2 pages)
The first step is to identify what kinds of dietary related risk factors are highly correlated to his/her current health issue. Hypothesize a specific dietary behavior modification that can improve and/or delay type II diabetes mellitus progress. Please use the following steps to target a factor for change:
- Breakdown his/her current dietary pattern into several parts such as didn’t intake enough vegetables, fruits, whole grain. Or intake too much processed/red meat, refined carbohydrates/ added sugar…etc.
- Assess the benefit and barrier to modify his/her dietary behavior to resolve or improve health status.
- Explain terminology for the reader to best understand situation.
Part II: Proposed solution to improve (2-3 pages)
- Then choose one of the dietary related risk factors that is most problematic as a second key term and research scientific information about it.
- Search for related information by using the two key terms in three sources from the library and databases. One of these will be a book that the school librarian gave you during a lecture on literature searches. You will also use a peer-reviewed article from the library database. Lastly, you could use a website that end in “.gov” or “.org” which means that is government approved (No “.com”).
- Using scientific evidence to confirm that the dietary related risk factor you have chosen is the most important behaviors to modify.
- Use the scientific evidence to support what kind of benefits can result from modifying their behavior and explain how to overcome any barriers.
Part III: Description of solution (2-3 pages)
- Describe what kind of impact or benefits this will cause to their health and wellbeing.
- Finally, figure out strategies to improve specific dietary behaviors in his/her life and how they are willing to modify.
- Choose the most useful strategies to modify existing dietary risk factors and how to overcome barriers (ex. using a cellular phone built in program to monitor their own diet).
- How can he or she maintain this specific eating behavior long term for healthy wellness?
Part IV:
Final report:
The final report that will connect all of 3 parts plus Reflection should be 6-9 pages.
Reflection (1 page)
- During the writing process, identify the specific part that you did very well?
- Identify which part are you still struggling with. Explain why it was difficult and how can you improve in the future it.
Writing format:
Use APA in-text citation and format for papers. Be sure to follow APA format guidelines for your paper.
- The paper should be typed double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5 x 11”) with 1”margins on all sides.
- Number all pages including the title page and reference pages.
- Use an easily readable typeface such as New Roman with a 12-point font size.
- The title of the paper should be typed in upper and lowercase letters centered on the front page.
- For paragraphs and indentation, set tab at 5 to 7 spaces.
