WR808 Assignment 1: Wellness-Specific Dietary Assessment (50%)

The wellness dietary assessment is designed for you to understand how to evaluate your present diet against New Zealand dietary recommendations as well as understanding how to modify your diet for a wellness specific diet.

Due: 4^th May 2026 at 9 am 2026

Learning Outcomes

On the completion of this paper students will be able to:

1. Critically review current literature and practice of how nutrition influences wellness.
2. Critically evaluate the nutritional factors that influence outcomes in wellness and the effectiveness of different treatment modalities/interventions for a range of lifestyle and long-term conditions.
3. Incorporate and evaluate the concepts of client-focused problem planning, goal-setting, targets and time frames, and outcome measurement into the design of a nutritional programme.
4. Evaluate ethical and cultural nutritional issues and interdisciplinary teamwork as they relate to wellness coaching and rehabilitation services and their delivery in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
5. Critically evaluate models for change and practical tools to assess and promote readiness for behavioural change.
6. Apply research, analysis, critique, problem-solving, implementation skills and understanding to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate nutritional health enhancement and lifestyle management programmes for clients.

Assignment Task

The wellness dietary assessment is designed for you to understand how to evaluate your present diet against New Zealand dietary recommendations as well as understanding how to modify your diet for a wellness specific diet.

You will achieve these outcomes via:

1. Comparing and evaluating your current diet results against New Zealand recommended daily intake (NZ RDI).
2. Modify your present diet to follow a wellness specific diet for three weeks.
3. Complete the wellness specific diet for three weeks.
4. Record and analyse the three-weeks wellness specific diet.
5. Evaluate your wellness specific diet.
6. Explain the principles of your wellness specific diet using the current research on your diet.

Part 1: Present diet:

Evaluate your present diet using different dietary assessments. Use New Zealand recommended daily intakes for macronutrients and micronutrients for comparing and evaluating the present diet. 

Part 2: Wellness specific diet: (Must check with tutor before starting your diet)

1. Modify your diet. You need to give a dietary plan for the three-week period.
2. Record the three-week diet onto the diet record sheet/diary.
3. Analysis of wellness specific diet by using computer software (give a summary rather than all the information).

Part 3: Evaluation of the wellness specific diet:

Evaluate the success and barriers of your intervention diet.

Part 4: Explain the principles of your wellness specific diet:

Structure of part four:

Make sure you use current scientific literature.

• Introduction: Introduce the wellness specific diet that you have chosen and explain the main issues around this topic.
• Explain the principles of your wellness specific diet. You will need to explain the scientific reasoning behind the diet.
• Conclude the topic. Make sure you cover the key findings from research of the topic.

Part 5: Formatting

Your assessment should follow School of Health, Exercise and Recreation guidelines.

• Each part must have a clear heading
• Within each part you must have a clear subheading
• You must reference any material that you used and provide a reference list in the standard format (APA 7th ed. format). 

WR808 Assignment 1 Marking Criteria

(marking rubric will be made available in Blackboard)

There is a relevant, academically sound, clear and comprehensive evidence to show: