2. Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual’s experience of dementia. Poor nutrition can make the symptoms of dementia worse, increase risk of more frequent infections requiring use of antibiotics. Malnutrition also affects immune system making it difficult to fight an infection. Effects of poor nutrition:- • Higher risk of infection • Reduced wound healing • Dermatological problems • Constipation • Disturbed sleeping pattern • Weight loss/gain Dementia can greatly affect a person's relationship to food and eating.
First of all I would like to consider eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.Individuals have eating disorders when their lives revolves around food, for example, they plan their life around eating and not eating food. For instance, people with these disorders can overeat and under eat. Eating disorders are characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food, for example, individual can change their eating habits. One of the reasons why person is having the eating disorder could be that they may focus on their weight, shape and figure. It can make people eat not healthy food or under eat.
P3 Explain specific health psychology issues Eating disorders are characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food that causes an individual to change their eating habits and their behaviour. There are several types of eating disorders that can effect an individual physically, psychologically and socially. The two eating disorders which I will be discussing is anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia is an eating disorder and a mental health condition which can be life-threatening. Anorexia is an irrational fear of gaining weight, it typically involves excessive weight loss and usually occurs more in females than in males.
Advertising has been proven to increase eating disorders in women. The average woman model weighs up to 25% less than the typical woman. That is 15-20% below what is considered healthy. This is why the number of people with eating disorders is increasing; this unhealthy weight is becoming “the new normal”. Today 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, approximately 90% of them are young women, which is the age group proven to be influenced most by the advertisement of a woman’s body.
Too much fat in a person’s diet can also cause disease when over consumed. Too many carbohydrates can lead to obesity and an increase in calories. Just as much as too many macronutrients is not good for a person too little has its effects too. If a person continually eats too little protein he or she can become susceptible to disease, it can cause a person to develop anemia, dry skin can develop and in women their bones can become brittle. If a person does not have enough carbs in his or her diet, he or she lacks needed calories that is also known as malnutrition.
It has been established that psychological problems have arisen for individuals who have been a victim of weight stigma and some consequences of this are depression, body image dissatisfaction and low self esteem. This is turn affects obese individuals eating habits, motivation, physical activity and health as these individuals are too embarrassed and humiliated to seek help from health professionals. Puhl and Heuer (2009)
2 Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual's experience of dementia. Poor nutrition can make the symptoms of dementia worse,increase risk of more frequent infections requiring use of antibiotics. Malnutrition also affects the immune system making it more difficult to fight off infections. Effects
Introduction Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the two main eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are similar in that there is an inaccurate perception of body weight, size or shape and/or marked over-concern about body weight, size or shape. However, there are differences. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by voluntary maintenance of unhealthy low weight (less than 85% of expected), cessation of menstrual periods for at least three cycles (amenorrhea), and an intense fear of weight gain or becoming fat. On the other hand, bulimia nervosa is characterized by inappropriate weight reducing behavior (vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse, excessive exercise, fasting) at least twice a week and large uncontrolled binge eating at least twice a week.
This can lead to many eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, over eating and bulimia. These are very serious eating disorders which are usually caused by body image problems. They feel that they need to be thin to be accepted in the society. The media puts so much pressure on the society to be thin that
While some consumers take these figures as a motivation to become thinner in a healthy manner there is an overwhelmingly large group that takes this to the extreme. The push for women to be skinny is ever apparent in the media, this relevance has a negative impact on both the mental and physical health of consumers. On almost every television channel commercials for miracle diet supplements and fat melting workouts with size zero women as proof of their effectiveness can be seen. When a commercial for alcohol comes on there is sure to be a disclaimer that states that the product should be used responsibly, this isn’t the same for the miracle diet pills and fat melting workouts. They too can be used in excess and can lead to severe health problems.