DISCUSS WHY NUTRITION IS A CENTRAL COMPONENT IN HEALTH PROMOTION? NRS 429
DISCUSS WHY NUTRITION IS A CENTRAL COMPONENT IN HEALTH PROMOTION? NRS 429
Topic 4 DQ 2
Discuss why nutrition is a central component in health promotion. What are some of the nutritional challenges for emerging populations? What roles do nutritional deficiency and nutritional excess play in disease?
Nutrition is essential to health promotion because it is necessary for our body’s growth, development, and normal functioning. For optimal growth and development, physical activity, reproduction, lactation, illness and injury recovery, and health maintenance throughout the life cycle, adequate nutrition is essential. For a healthy body, a well-balanced diet with enough of the essential nutrients is critical. Disease is linked to both excess and inadequate nutrition. For instance, chronic inflammatory conditions like obesity and cardiovascular disease can be brought on by a combination of inactivity and nutritional excess, particularly in the form of refined carbohydrates and saturated fats. Conversely, deficiencies in essential nutrients can result in slowed growth, compromised immune system, and common conditions like scurvy, osteoporosis, depression, and xerophthalmia.
Reference
National library of Medicine. Nutrients, Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (2017). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
Zekia Kemal
replied toOluchi Osueke
Oct 22, 2022, 10:24 AM
Hello Oluchi,
We are living longer, but living with the consequences of more years stricken with illness and disability. If we are to change this health expectancy trend, we must start at a major source of the problem. Diet and nutrition are now the biggest risk factors for people’s health across the globe. while fewer people are suffering and dying from insufficient food today, an increasingly commercialized processed food supply has moved us in a troubling new direction. While a shift in diet away from harvested fruits and vegetables toward more processed foods is not killing us, the spread of junk food around the globe clearly appears to be making us sick and overweight.
· Charity Uroegbulam
replied toOluchi Osueke
Oct 22, 2022, 1:52 PM
A balanced nutrition is essential for maintance of health promotion and prevention of diseases. As nurses we need to do more on nutritional education to our patients and thier families to reduce the incidents of nutritional related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease etc
· Tajinder Singh
replied toOluchi Osueke
Oct 23, 2022, 12:49 AM
Oluchi great post I agree that nutrition is a great preventive measure that we all can take and make sure adequate nutrients are being consumed with whole foods and natural and organic produce if possible without the use of preservatives and such. Often times processed foods have so many unwanted ingredients and pesticides which can be especially harmful to our bodies, its crazy that some highly processed foods or meats even have a warning sign that it contains certain chemicals that have been linked to cancer!
