Question

Scenario:

The patient is a relatively inactive 26-year old woman who lives alone in a highly urban city in an apartment. She works
from home as a software engineer for 7-8 hours every day. She exercises 1-2 times a week at the local gym for 30-40
minutes each time. She typically runs on the treadmill, but does not do muscle training or any other form of exercise. The
patient is inquiring about the benefits, risks, and costs of buying refined foods from the store versus whole foods from the
farmer's market. The store is 5 minutes' walk away from the apartment, while the farmer's market is around 7 miles from
the city. The patient is seeking to purchase one food from each category of macronutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, and
lipids.
As such, one view is from the perspective of a naturally occurring harvest, and the other is from a processing and
refining perspective.

Answer 1

Hi. This question is incomplete. However, when searching for it on the internet, I was able to find another question, very similar to yours, which asked you to recommend ways to keep this patient in good health and body weight. If that's the case for you, I hope the answer below will help you.

The first recommendation is that this woman avoid foods that contain processed and refined macronutrients, as they are not able to meet the needs of her body efficiently, in addition to being more difficult to be digested and have high levels of fat. Therefore, it is preferable that this woman eats natural products, mainly vegetables, which will help her to efficiently digest macronutrients, supplying her body's needs.

It would be necessary for this woman to increase the frequency in which she exercises and do a greater variety of exercises, treating different parts of her body and working on her muscles, making her body stronger, in addition to controlling her body weight.