Essays on A Healthy Diet

1. Exercising regularly is good for health. However, one should not be erratic about it i.e. one should have a plan and stick to it. Fitness also includes the food intake. One should have a balanced diet that gives all nutrients in the correct proportion. Exercise and food together lead to a healthy body. At times an overweight person will not be prepared to expose himself to others in a fitness centre. However, one should realise that it is to change this very situation that one need to keep oneself fit. As a result, one becomes more confident about ...

Influence

Influence

There are scenarios in our life when you feel that you need to stand up for a cause. I experienced such an opportunity last year when I felt I needed to do everything to persuade my near and dear ones to maintain to avoid junk food. The age of the internet has clearly provided us with an opportunity to better understand how we need to avoid junk food and maintain a healthy diet. After due consideration of all the health benefits from avoiding junk food, it was easy to get my father on board to change is food ...

Literature Review

The literature review was conducted in relevant academic journals that relate to elementary school-aged obesity. In essence, the review was carried out on home-based interventions, school-based interventions effectiveness, and sustainability of the methods adopted in curtailing obesity.

Obesity Epidemic

Childhood obesity is linked with severe health risks. Primarily, obesity is associated with diabetes mellitus, increased risk of coronary heart disease, orthopedic complications, and more stress on weight-bearing joints, and lastly, it is a cause of pediatric hypertension (CDC, 2016). Moreover, hospital costs associated with the treatment of obesity are dramatically high. Besides, being obese can set back children psychosocial status. In ...

Family Profile

The family lives in the state of California in the United States of America. It is a family of four members that includes the mom, dad, and two children. The mom is 35 years old with seasonal allergies, and a healthy diet. Because of her seasonal allergies, she does take an allergy shot and some allergy medications when her allergies become a problem. The dad is 32 years old with no health conditions and eats a healthy diet. Since he has no health conditions, the only medications that he takes is an occasional pain pill for a headache or ...

Information and communication technologies, social networking and mass media stream have become efficient instruments to influence and formulate people’s mental and physical health. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of four important aspects and reasons for choosing of healthy diet by people: beauty, mental health, medical treatment and finally, people’s desire to be trendy. There is a number of reasons and justifications of why people opt for any type of the healthy diet and if earlier it was mainly a way of medical treatment and mental health support, nowadays it has become very popular and fashionable to ...

The Difference between Healthy and Fast Food

Food refers to edible substances consumed by people and animals to keep them alive. It consists of macronutrients such as carbohydrates and starches, proteins and micronutrients like minerals and vitamins as well as fats. Food supports life by generating growth, making the body grow and maintaining the body. The combination of foods that one eats can either be classified as healthy of unhealthy food. Healthy foods are associated with rich people while unhealthy eating is more prevalent with the less able people. In essence, food is directly related to health. Good food habit leads to a healthy life while ...

After watching ‘Fed Up', it is fairly understandable why the problem of obesity stands so acute nowadays. The food industry corporations do their best to increase their profits by selling more processed junk food. Their practices are definitely subject to serious consideration by both consumers and politicians. What I found weird was blaming the corporations for all the sins. They told a hundred times something like "It is not your fault that you are obese, it is the corporations." But whose responsibility is it to watch over self? Of course, of each of us. The fact that they are ...

Reflection Paper on Food Stamped

Reflection Paper on Food Stamped The Food Stamp program, in addition to food assistance, provides nutrition education in low-income elementary schools. Shira Potash, a nutrition educator participating in this program, wonders if the parents of the children she teaches can possible afford to buy those healthy ingredients necessary to prepare the meals she is trying to introduce in schools. Is it possible to buy healthy food on a tight budget? To answer this question, Shiva and her husband Yoav Potash engage in the following experiment: for one week, they will both attempt to eat a healthy, well balanced diet ...