Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease, And Cancer

This article was to examine how the US government uses dietary guidelines for Americans and how the guidelines were supposed to help us eat and stay healthy. Diet and chronic diseases are sometimes connected. For example, it is proven that nutrient deficiency disease like scurvy can be cured by consuming the lost nutrients. However, it is also shown that some nutrient exposure can cause chronic illness such as energy, fats, sodium dietary fiber, and food exposures, etc. making it difficult to set dietary guidelines. In addition to some nutrient causing chronic diseases, nondietary factors such as stress, lack of exercise, smoking and other environmental factors are linked to causing chronic illnesses (Slavin, 2012).

Over the past few decades, deficiencies of essential nutrients have drastically diminished, many infectious diseases have been reduced, and most of the U.S. population can now foresee a long and productive life. In the meantime, rates of chronic diseases hefty portion of which are identified with poor quality diet and physical activity has increased. About half of all American grown-up have one or more preventable, diet-related chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes, and overweight and obesity.

For last 50 years many researchers throughout the world have shown that the foods we eat have a profound impact on our health and longevity. A healthy diet

Although the science of nutrition is relatively young, we know about what nutrients are needed for an adequate diet and what foods provide them. Recent evidence points to poor diet as a risk factor for chronic diseases that are leading causes of adult deaths : heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and forms of cancer. Not consuming enough nutrients also makes up more likely to suffer consequences of poor nutrition habits in later years, such as bone fractures from the disease osteoporosis. Iron-deficiency anaemia is another possibility. At the same time, taking too much of a nutrient supplement - such as Vitamin A, vitamin D, Vitamin B-6, calcium or copper-can be harmful. Another dietary problem, drinking too much alcohol, is associated with cirrhosis of the liver, some forms of cancer, accidents, and suicides. All of these consequences of modern

Today in the Western Hemisphere, many chronic health problems result from bad eating habits. There are a mix of people who are over-nourished, malnourished, or both. We eat chemically altered, high-fat toxic foods that do not provide a sufficient amount of essential vitamins and

Maxfield also makes a significant point of, “…nutritionist suggest that adult humans will eat in a way that is good for them, given the opportunity” (Maxfield 446). This is an example of how the need to eat healthily is linked directly with us. If the ability to make a better choice is available, then that choice will be taken by adults, whilst the job of the adult is to feed their children so you know if the adult wants to make good choices for themselves, they will for their children. We do not need to worry about the health impact of food unless it is taking a mental impact on a person's life like anorexia. These things need to be treated, but when talking about something such as the correlation between food and one's health the evidence is invalid. People need to wake up and realize this. The diets we put ourselves through can be more threatening to our lives than eating what we

The basis of our being is cellular, with nutrition being one necessity a cell needs to function. Nutrition comes from the food we consume where it is digested and broken down into simple nutrients. Each food having a different nutritional value. Is the diet we, as American’s, consume nutritionally filled? What role does a typical western diet play in relationship to the diseases we treat in healthcare today? In going back to the diet of our ancestors, consuming a Paleolithic diet, also known as a caveman or stone-age diet decreases the amount of chronic inflammation one has, thereby reducing risk factors for major diseases we treat in healthcare today.

taken as equally important. Research in the field has shown that nutrition is one of many

In first world countries, it is easy to say that there is a substantial abundance of food. This includes all types of foods. From fast foods like Wendy’s or McDonald 's, to organic foods such as Juice Press and Panera Bread. Even with a great supply and availability of food, there is still one problem in the world. That one problem is the diet. Not the expense diet programs, special foods, dietary supplements, or drugs that are used to diet, but what everybody consumes daily. People are choosing to take up a diet that is unhealthy throughout their lives, as a result-- gain health related issues. A person 's diet is what they eat on a regular basis. Based on trends and studies, many people tend to neglect what they consume. Many studies

Obesity has become a growing issue in the recent years and its increasing trend is now referred to as a ‘pandemic’ by many researchers and scientists. With a £3.2 billion currently estimated cost of overweight and obesity to the NHS, one can understand the growing interest in this matter. This essay is going to discuss the bad effects of obesity on people, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers and type-2 diabetes. Then, this essay will talk about the causes, and how junk food and bad diet can cause obesity. The causes of obesity are lack of exercise or inactivity and genetic genes as according to (Ebbeling, et al, (2002)), obesity can be caused due to genes, which is an unpreventable cause. Finally, this essay will give solutions for these causes and recommend some methods to prevent obesity.

The overweight problem is big issue in the United States and worldwide with the average American weighing 3-5 kilograms more than they did ten years ago. Obesity is an excess of body fat that leads to ill health. The study was based on a sample representative of United States where 22.9 percent men and 23.3 women were obese, and 44.1percent of men and 34 percent of women were overweight indicating that almost half of the United States population was overweight. The research covered children aged 6-11 years and the prevalence rate was 15.8 percent in 2007 with a higher prevalence among Black male and female’s at 20 percent and Hispanics at 26.5 with Whites recording the lowest at13.5 percent (World Health Organization, 2007).

It can never be said enough, you are what you eat; and those who don’t have a daily balanced meal are at risk of developing all kinds of diseases. Eating healthy should be something you do from an early age, because it should be a habit and not a constraint. If you’ve lost that good habit, it’s never too late, you can still regain it. The same applies to those who have never had a healthy meal in their lives; change is still possible. Did you know that a lack of certain nutrients, like fish oils or omega 3s, can expose you to mental diseases such as mental depression?

According to the World Health Organization, “Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity. (World Health Organization, 2012) ”

Proper nutrition is one of the most essential elements to being healthy and living a long life. People deal with food every day, and food has been a part of life since the beginning of civilization. What we eat becomes our diet, and our diet plays a major role in deciding how healthy we are and how well our body functions. Without proper diet, our body cannot carry out the functions it needs to perform. Most people have some common knowledge on what is good and what is bad for the human body to consume. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains are some common items people think of when they think of healthy foods. However, it is not enough just to know what foods are good for your body, it is also important to understand why certain foods are

One basic key to survival is eating, but this very notion is a double-edged sword, because of the risks involved with various food sources. While many may not think of what we eat as food safety issue, it is nonetheless an important factor in the widespread net of food safety concerns. What we put into our food can help or hurt us, thus creating a safety concern. If people wish to live longer lives, they should be aware that of the top ten leading causes of deaths in the United States, several are related to food consumption. This statistic is mind boggling because of the sheer fact that people are literally eating themselves to death. If society is made more educated in regards to these risks, and these risks are more clearly linked