Healthy Diet
what is a healthy diet?
What is junk food and fast food?
Can fast food be healthy? How? Why?
What are possible negative impact of not following a healthy diet on people and communities? Consider the medical social and financial implications.
What are the possible positive impact of following a healthy diet? Consider the medical, social and financial implications.
Title:(use the title given)
Aims: (Identify the objectives of your research)
Introduction: introuse the topic and provide some background information, clarity and identify any terminology if necessary, state the key points of the investigation and also introduce the document.
Literature Review: use the research materials from your sources to contextualise your topic)
Methodology: ( explain how you found your research finding, identify any qualitative or quantive primary or secondary research methods).
Discussion( discuss your research findings in the section, explain, enterprte, analys.
Conclusion: ( summarize your research findings and draw a conclusion.
Reference list:( use the harvard Anglia Referancing guideline)
References list:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/22/what-is-health-eating
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/10/recipe-healthy-eating-education-ditch-diet-drinks
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/19/japanese-diet-live-to-100
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandsyle/2013/jan/14/fast-food-child-asthma-allergies
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/07/junk-food-shortening-lives-children-obesity-diabetes-data
mark bittman 2017 TED what’s wrong with what we eat?
Objectives.
In this research study, I aimed at identifying what a healthy diet is and what it constitutes. I have looked at what the so-called junk food is and its effect on our health. Another objective I have looked at is the negative consequences of not observing a healthy diet and how the impacts affect people and communities. The last objective I have worked on is the positive impacts of good dieting in the medical, social and financial statuses of individuals and communities.
What is a healthy diet?
A healthy diet is meant to sustain and improve the general health of individuals by providing the body with the necessary nutrition with no toxicity and adverse health outcomes. Components of a healthy diet are derived from plant-based and animal-based foods. According to the World Health Organization, a healthy diet protects against malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases and illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer. WHO argues that the principal risks in the global health are unhealthy diet and inadequate to zero physical activities. A healthy diet should have a good balance of nutrients such as proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates, water, roughages, and minerals. According to the life and style article by The Guardian, there is no precise definition of what a healthy diet should constitute, more so a clean diet with examples provided of people followed a clean diet and yet they suffered eating disorders such as orthorexia (Renton, 2015). From the article, clean eating is described as consumption of unprocessed foods where one can ingest as much as they can without minding the calories due to the assumption that it’s whole.
What is Junk Food and Fast Food?
According to a study as analyzed by The Guardian by (Boseley, 2013) fast foods have been found to have a possible link to an increased rate of asthma and allergies affecting children in the United Kingdom among other developed countries. Fast food is food that is consumed for convenience and may or may not be of nutritional value while junk foods are considered to be unhealthy since they are characterized by salted, fried, sweetened foods and carbonated drinks with high sugar levels. Fast foods include things like fruits, baked beans, and wholemeal sandwiches. Junk foods include candy bars, chocolates, French fries, pizza, and taco among others. The study whose population was made up of children divided into two age groups, 319000 14-year olds who were from 51 countries and the second group was made up of 181000 children from 31 countries under the 6-7 years age bracket. Questions regarding their feeding habits in the previous 12 months, more specifically their rates of eggs, nuts, milk, margarine, bread, pasta and other fast foods such as burgers were presented to them. The study also asked on their allergy and asthma rates upon consumption of such foods and also asked how severe they were in regards to their impacts on the children’s sleep patterns and daily life activities.
Can Fast Food Be Healthy? How? Why?
According to the paper, fast foods contain higher saturated fatty acids, Tran’s fatty acids, sodium, carbohydrates, high sugar levels and preservatives. The high levels of the manufactured hydrogenated vegetable fats in substances like margarine have Tran’s fatty acids which were linked to asthma and allergies. The results of the study indicated a 27% increase in the rate of severe asthma attack upon fast food consumption more than thrice a week among the 6-7 years age group. Fast food, therefore, cannot be considered healthy, but when consumed in limited amounts they may have less severe effects on the health of individuals.
Negative Implications of an unhealthy diet.
Failure to observe a healthy diet routine has adverse health effects. Consumption of fast foods causes allergies and asthma, especially among children. Junk food has been directly linked to obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure which shortens the lives of individuals. Financially, parents of children with diet related illnesses suffer the burden of medical bills. Some of these diseases have no cure such as the Type 2 diabetes associated with the fast foods (Boseley, 2016). Parents, therefore, have to get back to their pockets not to buy burgers for their children but to pay for healthcare services for their children, every day given that some of these illnesses are terminal. Socially, people with obesity feel stigmatized since the society labels them as “fat” and are excluded in many activities due to their body size. Communities from developing countries are associated with malnutrition disorders due to poor dieting this time due to lack of resources and food in general. By the mention of such lands, the thing that first comes to mind is malnutrition. According to (Bittman, 2007), consumption of too much-processed food, meat, and the less homemade food is increasingly putting the planet at risk.
Positive implication of following a healthy diet.
Following a healthy diet constituting of foods from plants such as vegetables, fruits and cereals, limited processed foods and physical exercise on a regular basis leads to a general wellness biologically, emotionally and mentally (cosslett, 2017). It requires a lot of discipline, but in the long run, individuals benefit much more than it cost them to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Medically, there a fewer hospital visits as a result of good health. Financially, it is not cheap to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but one saves much more due to avoidance of health implications associated with poor dieting. Socially, people who observe a healthy diet are more appealing due to their glowing skin, good body shapes and physical strength and have higher prevalence rates to lucrative positions in job sectors, roles in films and status groups. A healthy diet is associated long life spans such as the Okinawa diet whose consumers live up to and over 100 years (Booth, 2017).
References.
Bittman, M. (2007). What’s wrong with what we eat? TedTalk. Available at https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat?referrer =playlist-what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat
Booth, M. (2017). The Okinawa diet-could it help you live to 100? The guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/19/japanese-diet-live-to-100
Boseley, S. (2013). Fast Food and Takeaways linked to surge in child asthma and allergies. The guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/22/what-is- healthy-eating
Boseley, S. (2016). Junk Food Shortening Lives of Children Worldwide, data shows. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/07/junk-food-shortening-lives-children- obesity-diabetes-data
Cosslett, L. (2017). Here’s the real recipe for a healthy eating: a big fat serving of education. The guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/10/recipe- healthy-eating-education-ditch-diet-drinks
Renton, A. (2015). What is Healthy Eating? The guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/22/what-is-healthy-eating
