Outline of effects of poor diet on health and wellbeing of people Atlanta Georgia
Introduction
It introduces how a poor diet is achieved and how people are introduced to the poor diet through poor eating habits. Also, it discusses factors that contribute to poor eating like the taste, pleasure convenience, or nutrition.
Body
It discusses the effects of poor diets that affect both children and adults in Atlanta. It further shows how poor diet increases the risk of transmission of diseases like HIV. Also, it shows the nutrients that people lack, leading to poor diet and what causes people nutritious foods.
It discusses significant causes of poor diet, and it narrows down to Atlanta’s primary cause of poor diet, which is dietary practices, which include under-nutrition and over-nutrition. It further explains the most vulnerable populations to under-nutrition, which are mostly children and infants. Further on, it shows how adults are susceptible to overnutrition and the chronic diseases it causes to the people of Atlanta.
Conclusion
It gives the solutions to the problems that have been discussed in the body about a poor diet that affects the wellbeing of the people of Atlanta, Georgia. These solutions are supposed to solve all problems discussed on poor diet among the people of Atlanta.
Effects of Poor Diet on Health and Wellbeing of People Atlanta Georgia
Introduction
Poor diet is a problem that is concerned with the wellbeing of people. When people are at a tender age, they are introduced to food preferences; however, as people grow older, they become independent and decide on their choice of intake. Food selection is essential because an individual chooses to on what consumption of food he/she will eat will be harmful or beneficial. The habit of eating poorly might indicate the reality of selecting lousy food or other related various types of food intake, like timing. Eating habits are contributed by a few elements: taste, pleasure, convenience, or nutrition, where all might end up shifting the pattern to a poor diet. This study aims to clarify the effects, causes, and solutions to the poor diet of the people of Atlanta, Georgia.
Effect of Poor Diet
Poor diet escalates the risk of infectious and infectious diseases, as well as a moderate poor diet; it wears out every part of the immune system. For instance, it is a significant risk factor in the onset of active tuberculosis. Energy, as well as protein, poor diet, and deficiency of particular micronutrients (like vitamins, iron, and zinc), increase vulnerability to infection. Poor nutrition affects HIV transmission such that it increases the replication of viruses and increases the risk of transmission from mother to child. In some estates in Atlanta that do not have access to clean water to drink have an additional health risk that is a critical problem (Pacholko Caitlin and Lane). Impaired functioning of the brain and lower energy is a sign of poor diet. The affected people are unable to perform tasks that will provide food, earn any income, or acquire education about nutrition. Diseases related to vitamin deficiency like rickets and scurvy lead to low sugar, which is attained from a child not having food for 4 to 6 hours. Low sugar should be contemplated if there is inertia, flabbiness, seizure, or loss of awareness. If blood sugar can be measured immediately and quickly, perform a finger or heel stick.
Causes of Poor Diet
The primary cause of poor diet in Atlanta, Georgia, is dietary practices, but also most of the individual cases are contributed by a mixture of several factors. The significant burden of poor diet in Atlanta is clinical malnutrition like cachexia. Some researchers have claimed that sociopolitical factors have a contribution to causing starvation. The sociopolitical factors that cause poor diet in Atlanta are low levels of income and lack of education on a diet for the community.
Diseases
Poor diets result in health issues like chronic illness, especially with the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. Diarrhea and other infections can lead to poor nutrition because they decrease food intake, reduce nutrient absorption, direct loss of nutrients, and increase metabolic requirements (Christ and Eicke). Also, parasite infection, especially infection of the intestinal worm, can contribute to malnutrition. Lack of sanitation and hygiene are the major factors that lead to intestinal worm infections and diarrhea to children.
People of Atlanta experience poor diet due to abnormal nutrient loss (mostly caused by diarrhea or chronic illness affecting small intestines). Also, untreated coeliac causes their malnutrition. A poor secondary diet might occur because of an increase in expenditure of energy.
Dietary Practices
Under-nutrition
Poor diet to children and infants is caused by lack of adequate breastfeeding; this leads to deaths, which is approximated to be one million years, and to this population, Atlanta contributes to it. Unauthorized advertising of breast milk substitutes has contemplated to poor diet, and it continues even after 39 years of being prohibited by the WHO Code of Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes. Also, when a pregnant woman has a poor diet, it leads to the death of a baby when it is still a fetus, it has caused over 800,000 deaths (Christ and Eicke).
It was getting too much diet from one source like eating rice or corn for a long time and daily leads to a poor diet. This is mostly contributed due to lack of education about nutrition, or maybe it the only food that can be accessed (Christ and Eicke). While selecting food, the total amount of calories does not matter. What matters is particular nutritional deficiencies like zinc deficiency, iron deficiency, or vitamin A deficiency, which increases the chances of death.
Over-nutrition
Over-nutrition is a form of a poor diet that is caused by overeating. In Atlanta, Georgia, almost a quarter of its adults are obese. This circumstance is like a hunger that increases vulnerability to disability and disease, lowers life expectancy, and reduces workers’ productivity. In Atlanta, overeating is very common because major of the people there accessing food is not an issue. Most parts of the world’s food accessibility are surplus, but that food is non-nutritious and has an increased inactive lifestyle (Christ and Eicke). A psychologist from Yale called Kelly Brownell refers to this as a toxic food environment such that sugar and fat foods have taken over nutritious foods.
The primary issue with Atlanta is selecting the right type of food. Most fast food is consumed per capita in the city compared to other cities in the United States. The reason behind this mass consumption is that fast food is accessible and affordable. Often fast food is low in cost and nutrition; therefore, they have high calories and are heavily promoted (Christ and Eicke). Combining all these eating behaviors with an increase of urbanization, automation, and a more inactive lifestyle leads to weight gain that cannot be avoided. This eventually causes diseases like diabetes and heart disease that results in death.
Solutions of Poor Diet
Although poor diet has been affecting people of Atlanta regardless of their age, gender, and social class, there are solutions to poor diet. These solutions will eradicate all the problems caused by poor nutrition. These solutions are; eating balanced diet especially foods from plants and shying away foods from animal origin, maintaining a bodyweight that is recommended by Georgia department of public health (for adults BMI 18.5-25, waist for women should be less than 80 cm, and for men, it should not exceed 94 cm) this will be achieved by taking regular physical activities (this is achieved by at least 30 minutes of continuous walking), eating different types of vegetables and fruits (consume a minimum of 400g per day) preferably fresh and of local origin and you are not supposed to drink tea when you are eating plant food that is rich in iron because they are limit by tea, decreasing consumption of fatty foods and preferring plain oil, eating and drinking low-fat milk and milk products with low salt content, babies are supposed to be breast for up to 6 months and then followed by complementary feeding until they reach the age of two years (Flanigan and Trina). If all these solutions are put into action, the people of Atlanta will solve poor diet issues and promote their wellbeing.
Works Cited
Christ, Anette, and Eicke Latz. “The Western lifestyle has lasting effects on metaflammation.” Nature Reviews Immunology 19.5 (2019): 267-268.
Flanigan, Amber, and Trina Salm Ward. “Evidence and Feasibility of Implementing an Integrated Wellness Program in Northeast Georgia.” Health & Social Work 42.3 (2017): 143-150.
Pacholko, Anthony G., Caitlin A. Wotton, and Lane K. Bekar. “Poor Diet, Stress, and Inactivity Converge to Form a “Perfect Storm” That Drives Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis.” Neurodegenerative Diseases 19.2 (2019): 60-77.