Question

Describe how the following assessments could help you live a long, healthy life: Diet

assessment, family medical history, lifestyle assessment.

Answer 1

These 3 assessments could help you live a long and healthy life.

1. Diet assessment, 2. family medical history, 3. lifestyle assessment.

1. Diet assessment - Diet is responsible for 80% of our disese. A balance can not only keep away you from disease but it can cure many diseases.

Specific diet plans needed for specific diseases and for specific people, that's why dietary assessment is very important. Example of some diet plan is DASH Diet (Dietary approaches to stop Hypertension) for Hypertension, Low sugar and Low-fat Diet for Diabetes, Low fat and low cholesterol diet for Heart disease, etc.

By assessing the regular diet and culture the dietician plan a therapeutic diet for clients so, Dietary assessments could help you live a long and healthy life.

2. family medical history - Family medical history can be an eye-opener for genetic and hereditary diseases. By knowing your family history you can be extra preventive or you can take extra precaution for some diseases because family history increases the chance of some disease.

For example, if someone in your family had Heart disease then your chance of heart disease is increased by up to 30%. So, by knowing this you can modify your dietary habits and lifestyle pattern to prevent heart disease.

3. lifestyle assessment - Today NCDs (Non-Communicabe Diseases) are the main cause of mortality and morbidity. The main reason for this is bad lifestyle habits, for example, smoking, excess alcohol consumption, inactive lifestyle, stress, etc.

By assessing our lifestyle we can get rid of this and can live a long and healthy life