Personal Experience: Using MyFitnessPal in Health Classes in NunavutMyFitnessPal provides an excellent platform for teaching students about healthy food choices. As a demonstration tool, teachers can create sample daily logs live in seconds based on student choices in class. Since MyFitnessPal will tally everything for the teacher, feedback based on their choices can be delivered to the class immediately with little worry of calculation errors. Classes can see if they made good choices that caused them to reach their caloric goal or bad choices which caused them to over or under consume. Furthermore, they are able to see if they received enough vitamins and/or minerals for the day. There is even a pie chart to show them if they were eating the correct amount of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
The amount of analyzed data that MyFitnessPal presents to students will certainly spark many questions and conversations. Teachers can demonstrate how quickly calories can add up when students are choosing the wrong foods and how not eating enough can lead to serious malnutrition.The author gives an example of connecting a small population of deaf students with other deaf students and prominent deaf people from around the world to get a sense of deaf culture. This connecting with others and as Twitter says “Join the conversation” is a powerful tool. With the power of this Web 2.0 tool in the hands of students, they can now create their own food logs and allow their classmates and teacher to view their food and exercise diaries in a secure online group. Classmates may even provide feedback such as words of encouragement to each other any time they wish. Since MyFitnessPal is in real time, the teacher and classmates can see if a friend or student has completed their log for the day. If they have, they can leave a positive comment, if they haven't, you can send them a quick reminder to complete their diary for the day. If you're teaching students how to keep a food log so they can be sure that they are eating healthy, MyFitnessPal is the best app on the market. With over 2 million foods in the database and ways to eat back calories burned by working out, this app takes top spot for maintaining a healthy balanced diet while working out. How do I use MyFitnessPal? |
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