Question

You and your family have booked a cabin just outside of Gatlinburg, TN. Everyone is excited about tomorrow's plan to tackle the Ramsey Cascades trail, a beautiful eight mile round-trip hike that gains more than 2,000 feet in elevation over the course of four miles. The park brochure says this trail is considered to be a strenuous hike, but it will allow you to view the tallest waterfall in the park (at the highest point of the hike at the four-mile, half-way point) so everyone has decided the effort to get there will be worth it.

(Reference Sites: Hiking in the Smokies - Ramsey trail (Links to an external site.) and National Park Service - Plan Your Visit to Ramsey Cascades (Links to an external site.))

You know that your body needs ample nutrition to be able to sustain your efforts throughout the hike, and to recover safely from the increased work required to make it all of the way to the falls and back. To prepare for the hike which you estimate will take a total of 7 hours, you are planning to head to the grocery store so everyone can have an appropriate breakfast before leaving, snacks and drinks along the trail (there is nowhere to stop along the trail to make purchases so everything must be carried by the group), lunch at the falls, and a recovery dinner when you get back to the cabin at the end of the day.   

Post what you plan to feed the group for the following meals.

• Breakfast at the cabin before heading out to hike.
• Snacks and drinks to carry with you for consumption along the way.
• Lunch at the falls.
• Dinner upon returning to the cabin.

Include an explanation of why you selected each item. You may find this site by the American Heart Association helpful as you think about your food selections: Food as Fuel

Answer 1

The American heart association recomends that induviduals consume a variety of fruits ,vegetables, and grain products especially whole grains choose fat free and low fat dairy products legumes poultry and lean meat and eat fish preferably oily fish at least twice a week, AHA given many healthy diet plans one of the diet plan is given below,

Breakfast

• egg with red pepper and onion 1 tsp
• low fat cheddar 1/4 cup
• whole wheat bagel 1 small
• Margarine 2 tsp
• Lunch
• Sirloin with sugar snap peas & pasta sala with Gremolta dressing
• apple 1 medium

Dinner

• Beef ,mango and Barley salad 11/4 salad with 3 oz cooked beef
• Dinner roll 1 small
• Margarine 2 tsp

Snacks

• Nonfat yogurt 6 oz
• low fat granola 1/4 cup
• Almonds 1 1/2