Proposals and Nutrition

Okay, so this will sound a little familiar to a previous blog post...Rhetoric...but I feel that it is fitting for this topic too.  I'm just going to put it out there, proposals are everywhere.  Period.  They don't necessarily have to be the exact same style for every idea because obviously that wouldn't make a lick of sense since every idea is going to be completely different.  The one thing that they all have in common though is that they are being persuasive through solid information and research.  To have a good proposal,  you'll definitely need good research because without research you don't have a solid proposal. Now, going back to proposals being everywhere.  If you think about it many things in life have sold you on something based on how well they pitched their proposal.  Like buying a car, a medical insurance plan, when choosing a college, or even buying a home.

So now you are probably wondering where the heck Nutrition comes into play into the blog post.  Well, since my major is Nutrition I am always looking at everything from a health perspective.  Nutrition can definitely have proposals...all the time.  One thing that jumped out to me when reading the assigned pages was how to develop a proper proposal because it is very similar to making a nutritional diagnosis.  When you are planning a proposals you have an introduction, statement of the problem, and proposed solution.  When you are making a nutritional diagnosis you have a needs assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and monitoring and evaluating.  The monitoring and evaluation don't really seem to have a place in a proposal, but the needs assessment, diagnosis, and intervention do.  When completing a needs assessment, you are coming up with the patients background and history to try and figure out what nutritional issues that are having.  That, to me, is equivalent to the introduction.  Then you have a diagnosis, which is provided by your knowledge of nutrition and the needs assessment.  This is similar to stating the problem.  Then you have an intervention, which is how we will attempt to solve the patients diagnosis based on previous research and past nutritional diagnoses.  This step is equivalent to  the proposed solution.

Hopefully, I've somewhat allowed you to see how proposals fit into my major area of study.  I hope that you were able to understand it.  How do proposals fit into your life and area of study?