The Socioeconomics of Nutrition and Health play a huge role in children’s and adults health. People of lower class are usually associated with not being educated. This is because they probably could not afford college so they had to dive into strenuous jobs just to make ends meet. Food is usually eaten on the go so it’s hard to appreciate the food they eat. There is also a big epidemic of children getting too many calories in a day but barely meeting their nutritional needs. This could lead to obesity and obesity can cause Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In the documentary Food Stamped a resident who lives in a high crime poor neighborhood says more people die of heart disease than getting killed by someone. In my opinion, that sounds
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It is not because they are incapable, it’s because the schools could care less about teaching about nutrition and that’s what causes them to be incapable of making the right decisions. The students who participated in the survey overwhelming agreed that it is not just poor people who don’t know nutrition. So, I believe to fix this problem there needs to be a class strictly about nutrition and it has to be taken every year to graduate from elementary, middle school than high school. These kids are taught so many things that they aren’t going to use outside of class but having a nutrition class at least gives them an option to choose to be healthy. Not every kid will go out of their way to learn about nutrition. My survey shows that 9 out 11 kids felt they were educated about nutrition as a kid but we also have to put into consideration that these kids go to Johnson and Wales and their majors are Culinary Arts and Baking so I assume they were knowledgeable about the differences of fruits and vegetables which impacts daily choices of what to eat because they had this unique interest at a young age. The average kid is not necessarily interested in cooking, therefore not making them aware of the differences of what vegetables and fruit
It is not because they are incapable, it’s because the schools could care less about teaching about nutrition and that’s what causes them to be incapable of making the right decisions. The students who participated in the survey overwhelming agreed that it is not just poor people who don’t know nutrition. So, I believe to fix this problem there needs to be a class strictly about nutrition and it has to be taken every year to graduate from elementary, middle school than high school. These kids are taught so many things that they aren’t going to use outside of class but having a nutrition class at least gives them an option to choose to be healthy. Not every kid will go out of their way to learn about nutrition. My survey shows that 9 out 11 kids felt they were educated about nutrition as a kid but we also have to put into consideration that these kids go to Johnson and Wales and their majors are Culinary Arts and Baking so I assume they were knowledgeable about the differences of fruits and vegetables which impacts daily choices of what to eat because they had this unique interest at a young age. The average kid is not necessarily interested in cooking, therefore not making them aware of the differences of what vegetables and fruit