My Body Fuel

Over the years I’ve become increasingly interested in nutrition and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle. Not only do I feel much more energized and happier in doing so, but I was able to apply the confidence I gained in the gym to other areas of my life, including work.

Throughout my years of university, nutrition wasn’t really a priority. I was living the student life and eating for survival. Snacks often favored convenience and opting for water as a beverage was virtually non-existent. So I was curious to analyze my eating habits and evaluate my health.

Hypothesis

The more time I spend at the computer, the less food I will consume.

When I am stressed with pressing deadlines, I become so focused that I often skip meals in an effort to complete the task at hand. Since my studies involved a lot of time spent on the computer, I also recorded my screen time to see if there was any correlation. However, the data recorded proved otherwise.

The Chow Down

The infographic details my food consumption patterns over a span of two weeks. It provides a summary of the amount of calories consumed and highlights interesting facts that arose in the process.

Stay inspired

Nicholas Felton’s work on consumption served as inspiration. I really like how he focuses on one particular topic and then visually dissects the data through averages and comparisons. Similarly, I tallied the amount of calories I consumed per day and then calculated averages based on the week.

Global footprint

The National Geographic website had a cool human footprint calculator that tallies up your lifetime consumption of specific foods based on the amount you have in a week. It also ranks you against other countries’ average lifetime consumption for an individual.

When stacked up against these other countries, I was somewhere between Japan and the US. Japan consumes more dairy and eggs— in relatively small amounts— than they do bread and soda. Whereas the US ranked high across the board, with bread as their largest number.