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For this activity, please keep a daily log of your exercise and food intake for at least 5 days. You should record (a) the type of exercise, (b) the intensity of exercise (heart rate), and (c) the duration of the exercise session. Food intake should be recorded as: (a) what you ate, (b) when and where you ate it, and, if possible, (c) the saturated fat content of the food item, recorded as “percentage of daily value based on a 2,000-calorie diet.”

Following the recording period, carefully analyze your logs and address the following questions:

(1) Did you meet the U.S. national recommendation of 150 minutes per week (30 minutes a day, 5 days per week) of at least moderately intense leisure-time physical activity, plus two sessions per week of resistance exercises?

(2) What types of exercise did you participate in?

(4) What benefits of the exercise did you experience?

(5) What barriers did you encounter? How might these barriers be overcome?

(6) How did your food intake vary from day to day? What factors might have influenced such variation?

(7) Did you limit your saturated fat intake to 10 percent of daily caloric intake?

(8) What other discoveries about your exercise and dietary habits did you make?

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