Food and Nutrition Service

I am looking at the use of food as medicine, specifically in treating mental illness. My research question started as “How can nutrition heal the body?”. At that point, I didn't know how specific I wanted to be or what illness I wanted to focus on. With the varied research done so far I am arguing that controlling food or careful dieting should be used more frequently and appreciated as a useful medicine to treat mental illness. With the number of people suffering from mental illness growing in…

strategy for nutrition intervention is more effective tool compare to provide treatment after getting malnourished. Nutrition education intervention has been found more effective to reduce prevalence of all type of malnutrition rather than treatment approach. Health workers were provided technical education to mother’s club for around one hour. Health workers were followed adult learning methodology during session. Health workers used various learning approach for example demonstration,…

Background: Obesity rates started rising since 1980 and tripled in children in the U.S. by 2000 (Sorensen, 2009). Being obese or overweight as an adolescent increases the risk of becoming an overweight adult by 80% (Schwarz & Peterson, 2010). Obesity is a multifactorial disease. Lifestyle, culture, socio-economic status, hormones, genetics, and environment all play roles as the causes of obesity, but unraveling exactly how some of these factors work is more difficult (Ahmad at el, 2010).…

the knowledge and understanding of food labelling are associated with obesity in particular consumer groups. INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, the rates of obesity and overweight have increased significantly (Visscher, 2001) and is diagnosed as one of most serious threats to public health of the time (Katz, 2005). Differences in related policies and health behaviour may be one of the causes (WHO, 2000) or lack of food labelling knowledge in the process of food choice. Obesity is described…

There are many factors in malnutrition in third world countries. Some of the factors that contribute in malnutrition are: lack of knowledge, poverty, unstable governments, war, health services, and inadequate diets. These factors are very important and are the main reasons for malnutrition in these countries. Most of the nutrient problems occur while they are younger because they cannot care for themselves. There are ways that are being addressed to help solve these problem through organizations…

Zinczenko claims that “the lack of information” about fast-foods and the deficit for the affordable supplementary for the fast-food restaurants are main reasons for the obesity issues; confusing explanations of calories perplex teenagers and lead them towards obesity while America possesses 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants, and it’s more complex to find a way to the…

Effectiveness of Using Brightly Colored Dinnerware to Increase Food Intake and Meal Completion Rates in Geriatric Patients Introduction The Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center (PSJMC) identified a growing cause for concern related to malnutrition and decided to investigate further options to enhance appetite and promote proper nutrition. Malnutrition was identified by the ACE care team, an inter-professional team working together daily to address…

communities, health services, non government organisations, industry and governments will need to all be actively engaged and to agree on priorities for action to enable overweight and obesity to be tackled in Australia (Obesity In Australia). Food labelling is now so detailed it has become misleading to consumers, because of this it is contributing in the rise of the obesity crisis…

The name of the policy that I am going to further explore is, The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (P.L 111-296) under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The NSLP reauthorizes its program every five years and the latest policy update was the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010. This policy authorized funding for federal school meal programs and increased access to healthy food for low-income children. This policy required the one that came before it,…

biotechnology Genetically Modified (GMO) foods, works on grounds of dubiousness and dishonesty, but they were still able to earn the seal of approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Given the responsibility of testing, Monsanto continued to report the safety of its own GMO foods as being “well.” However, a Monsanto study done on rats that had eaten the GMO food source began growing tumors the size of a golf ball after six months proving that their foods are not safe. Yet, the FDA…