For thousands of American’s healthy eating habits is second nature. Many choose healthy foods to prevent disease, prevent obesity, and promote longevity. However, many Americans have formed poor eating habits early, and the rate of obesity, healthcare costs due to disease, and health complications continues to rise. Healthy eating provides a better quality life because healthy foods and nutrients have been proven to fight against disease and prevent obesity. The Obesity rate today among adults and adolescents versus 20 years ago is devastating.
And are these food products good for us? The Media plays an important role on the way we Americans eat today. However, we are no longer interested in what the food is, but rather what it has in it. The problem is we're focusing on the invisible known nutrients and forgetting about the actual food itself. In addition, scientists have also discovered that by taking certain food and removing their important values and adding in so-called nutrients that can supposedly benefit us Americans health wise.
Not exercising can cause more serious issues then you think. Not only will you gain weight over time, but you have greater risk of diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. For those who do exercise, they get the benefits that all could get. The benefits are the decreased blood pressure, live a longer life, have a better mood, less risk to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. The reason why those who exercise live, because they are not getting fat over time as someone would be by just sitting at the couch all day.
As we reached the 20th century, technology and mass transportation have made most jobs, chores and transport far less physical and we have much more time available for leisure pursuits. “Hypokinetic diseases” (diseases stemming from lack of physical activity) have been known about for centuries and more closely studied and monitored since the 60’s. The main examples of these diseases are: Poor mental helath Coronary heart disease Obesity Lower back pain Osteoporosis Diabetes Some cancers Increasing physical activity across the population is a key, current, public health initiative because the benefits of reducing these diseases is self-evident. A key goal of families, professionals and legislators is to help children develop into adults with good mental and physical fitness. Ensuring significant levels of physical activity is important for several reasons.
There have been several reasons for the decline in death rate, and one of the reasons include the improved nutrition that the UK has achieved during the 1900s. McKeown argues that improved nutrition accounted for up to half the reduction in death rates, and better nutrition increased resistance to infection and illnesses. Multiple medical improvements also reduced the number of deaths in the UK. The improved medical knowledge, techniques and organisation after the 1950s helped in the decline of the death rate as the improvements included the introduction of antibiotics, immunisation against certain infections as well as blood transfusions, better maternity services and the introduction of the NHS in 1949. There has been another increase in improved medical practice as recently, bypass surgery and other similar developments have reduced heart disease and its related deaths by one third.
With the recent increase of overweight and obese Americans, a debate has surfaced over whether the government should tax sugary drinks. Taxing sugary drinks is the right step because it could change people’s choices behavior, it reduces the number of people who purchase these drinks, it could pay for health education and medical expenses, and it helps prevent obesity. Taxing sugary drinks could change people’s choices behavior. People need to change their life style and learn to live more healthily. Healthy choices are always more expensive than bad choices.
Like Pollan pointed out in one of his chapters, fast-food is bad for our health and for us in general. The food pyramid might sound healthy since there are commercials and doctors that follow the food pyramid but
Overtime, countries around the world have increasingly adopted this diet to their lifestyle. Because of the way we eat, the nation is experiencing a health crisis. There is an increase in obesity among the population and more people are affected by food related diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. One might wonder if there is a simple solution to many of our health problems. Studies prove that adapting a whole foods and plant based diet will prevent or in current cases reverse some of the worst diet related diseases.
Since taste declines with age older adults tend to use more salt when it comes to cooking and adding them too foods before consuming them, certain foods but not limited to eggs, popcorn, and green beans. This sodium consumption increase is one of the causes of the reason hypertension increases as we get older. to keep their sodium intake low since as we age sensitive to sodium tends to increase. Hypertension refers to high blood pressure. Studies show that as people age they lose taste buds and saltiness is the first to go.
Causes of Ageing Population Ageing population becomes increasingly serious in the world because of the demographic transition. The first reason is the decrease in death rate. It is caused by the increased awareness of public hygiene and the improvement of medical equipments and treatments like the use of vaccination and medicine. People’s diseases can be cured better so that there is a diminution in death from contagious diseases. Besides, a better way of life also leads to decline in mortality.