Response to Anna Valdez
Response to Anna Valdez
Food is a major component in our life through which we provide our body with the nutrients required to survive. Adequate nutrition is essential to stay healthy and to keep the body’s functions. Good nutrition and adequate amount of exercises can help us to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce our risk of chronic diseases and promote our overall health. Unhealthy eating habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States. Poor diet choices is associated with increased risk of heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer even in people with adequate weight. Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and stroke, along with other diseases, have all become more prominent and have a direct correlation to poor dietary intake (Patience, 2016). The risk factors for chronic diseases, are increasingly seen in younger ages, often a result of unhealthy eating habits and increased weight gain. One of the emerging population’s in USA are homeless and one of the nutritional challenges for them is food security. “Homelessness can be observed when an individual lacks secure living conditions as a result of limited resources and poverty” (Falkner, 2018). Among other emerging groups are Hispanics, Alaskan Natives, African Americans, were heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes have a high prevalence. Both nutritional deficiency and nutritional excess play an important role in the appearance of diseases. While nutritional excess contributes to obesity, nutritional deficiencies can lead to different diseases as scurvy, osteoporosis and anemias. Education regarding to proper nutrition is essential in preventing all those different types of diseases.
References:
https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs429vn/health-promotion-health-and-wellness-across-the-continuum/v1.1/#/chapter/3
https://www.hhs.gov/fitness/eat-healthy/importance…
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