[Answered]: Digestion, Nutrition and Metabolism Case StudiesPart…

Digestion, Nutrition and Metabolism Case StudiesPart I – The StoryKasey is a 21-year-old college student who wants to go to veterinary school. She loves animals and is active involunteering at a veterinary clinic near campus. While she knows it’s important to eat a balanced diet, Kasey stillskips breakfast or lunch several days a week. She finds that with her busy class schedule, volunteering, studying,and spending time with her friends and family, she simply doesn’t have time to eat. With her hectic life, Kaseyoften feels so tired in the afternoons that she needs to have a few diet soft drinks or lattes to perk up. Sherationalizes this by telling herself that the diet soft drinks are sugar-free, so they can’t be that bad. When she has alatte, she figures that she’s getting calcium from the milk, which is good for strong bones. Kasey has been drinkingcaffeinated beverages for so long that she feels she needs to drink more to have an effect, and she doesn’t want togo without them and risk getting a headache in the middle of class or work.Like many young women, Kasey is concerned about her body weight and shape. She is 5′ 6″, weighs 142 lbs, and isof medium build, but she feels like she is never at her “ideal” weight, which she considers to be about 125 lbs. Sheusually eats salads for lunch or dinner, and when she eats things she considers “bad,” like creamy sauces or high-fat foods, she works out longer. Her friend, Laura, is naturally thin, and sometimes Kasey is jealous of Laura’s abilityto eat anything she wants without gaining an ounce. Laura is 5′ 8″ and 135 lbs, and it bothers Kasey that Laura istaller and yet weighs less than her. Her friend, Sara, is heavier, and Kasey hates to admit it but sometimes shewould rather go to social activities with Sara. At least when she’s around Sara, Kasey feels less self-conscious abouther body.Kasey was particularly stressed during fall semester when she began applying to veterinary schools, and foundherself eating a lot more than she intended. She gained six pounds between October and January, and in general,while she knew she was not overweight, she had been feeling badly about her appearance. While online late onenight, she read an article that said keeping a food diary can help people become more aware of what they areeating, and that those who kept food journals had twice as much success in losing weight as well as maintainingtheir goal weight. Being leery of fad diets and diet pills, Kasey decided to try this out herself to see if she wouldhave similar success. She wanted to be in better shape in time for her spring break mission trip to Guatemala,where she would bring much-needed veterinary supplies to farmers to care for the animals that earn them theirlivelihood. She hoped that losing a few pounds would also give her more energy.Kasey tracked her meals in a food diary for three days. Calculate Kasey’s totals in the table provided. You have tofill in each row of the total calories column to get to the daily total, but not all of these numbers will be used toanswer case questions. The questions to answer are the numbers between the parenthesis (). Be sure to list allanswers as the number followed by one space and cal. (0.5 points for each answer)Thursday, March 26 Serving Size Calories/ serving Total CaloriesVanilla latte, skim milk 16 oz 200 cal/ 16 ozCranberry-orange muffin Large muffin 410 cal/ lg muffinSalad with tomato andcucumber1 (1)/(2) cups 60 cal/ cup (1)Salad Dressing (balsalmic) 2 tbsp 80 cal/ tbsp. (2)Diet Coke 8 oz 0 cal/ 12 ozDAILY TOTAL (3)Notes: I didn’t have time for breakfast, so I got a latte on the way to class. Thursdays are busy, with a morning laband a class afterwards that runs through the lunch hour. After class, I had to go to my job as a volunteer at aveterinary clinic, so I didn’t get to eat again until dinner, around 7 PM