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    This document provides a checklist for assessing a patient's eating habits and physical activity. The checklist includes questions about meal patterns, snacking, fruit and vegetable intake, dairy and fat consumption, food shopping and cooking habits, and physical activity levels. The goal is to identify problematic areas and encourage the patient to make improvements, such as eating meals regularly, reducing unhealthy snacks, increasing produce intake, using low-fat dairy, and engaging in regular physical activity.

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    This document provides a checklist for assessing a patient's eating habits and physical activity. The checklist includes questions about meal patterns, snacking, fruit and vegetable intake, dairy and fat consumption, food shopping and cooking habits, and physical activity levels. The goal is to identify problematic areas and encourage the patient to make improvements, such as eating meals regularly, reducing unhealthy snacks, increasing produce intake, using low-fat dairy, and engaging in regular physical activity.

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    ASSESSMENT

    Eating habits &


    physical activity assessment
    Use the following checklist to identify problems:
    1. Which meals are regularly eaten?
    Breakfast Brunch/morning tea Lunch Dinner

    When setting goals, encourage your patient to eat meals at regular times.

    2. When are snacks eaten?


    Morning Afternoon Evening Overnight Throughout the day

    What does the patient snack on?


    „„Check to find out the type of food and drinks being consumed regularly.
    „„Are these foods in the high energy list below?

    FOOD/DRINK HOW MUCH? HOW OFTEN?

    Takeaways

    Pies, pastries

    Chocolate, lollies

    Muesli bars, muffins

    Cakes, cookies

    Ice-cream

    Crisps, Twisties, Shapes etc

    Cheese, dips

    Fizzy or energy drinks/fruit juice/cordial

    Alcohol

    When setting goals, encourage your patient to reduce the frequency and/or quantity of
    snacks and drinks to help achieve an energy deficit.

    3. Vegetables & fruit Check to find out the type and amount of vegetables your patient usually eats.

    HOW MUCH? HOW OFTEN?

    Vegetables

    Fruit

    When setting goals encourage your patient to:


    Eat at least 3 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit each day.
    Have a variety of colours – fresh, frozen or canned are all good choices. Ideally half the plate
    should be colourful vegetables.
    Limit potato/kumara/taro/green banana to two palm sized servings (or one fist size) per meal.

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    4. Milk & fats


    Find out the type and amounts of the following that your patient is using:

    MILK HOW MUCH? HOW OFTEN?

    Dark blue top (homogenised )

    Lite blue top (reduced fat )

    Green/yellow top (low fat/high calcium)

    SPREAD HOW MUCH? HOW OFTEN?

    Butter

    Margarine

    COOKING FAT HOW MUCH? HOW OFTEN?

    Dripping/lard/butter

    Margarine/oil

    When setting goals, encourage your patient to use low fat milk, a small amount only of
    margarine for spreading and of oil for cooking.
    5. Food shopping & cooking habits
    Check to find out your patient’s shopping and cooking habits:

    „„Who in their home usually does the cooking?

    „„Who usually does the food shopping?

    6. Assessing physical activity


    Check to find out about your patient’s activity habits:
    „„How many days a week would some exercise/physical activity usually be undertaken?

    Days per week? Type of activity?

    For how long?

    „„What types of physical exercise/activity are enjoyed (e.g gardening, walking, swimming, sport)?

    „„How often would he/she be able to engage in this?

    Assist your patient to set a physical activity goal.

    Assess suitability for referral to Green Prescription.

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