Question

Discuss why nutrition is a central component in health promotion. What are some of the nutritional challenges for emerging populations? What roles do nutritional deficiency and nutritional excess play in disease?

Answer 1

Answer: Nutrition plays a major role in our life as it not only supports the body but also nourishes the body and enhances the proper functioning of the cell and body. Nutritients include protein, vitamins etc. Deficiency of these nutrients may cause severe illness and diseases. Proteins in children is responsible for growth and development whereas vitamins provide immunity.

Economical factors, availability, unawareness etc are the major cause of the nutritional challenges. Other than this many other factors such as climate change, droughts, and floods which causes damage to the agricultural land and crop production.

The lack of nutrients such as in children causes abnormal development whereas in adult causes improper functioning of the body. The deficiency of many vitamins such as Vitamin D causes weak bone, weak immunity etc. The excess of nutrition causes weight gain which turns into obesity and hence makes a person more prone to other diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease etc.