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How unhealthy eating habits
contribute to Diseases
Miriam Gardner
Professor Queen Martin
June 28, 2013
Why Eat Healthy
• Healthy eating is associated with reduced risk
for many disease including heart disease,
cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
• Proper nutrition in children can lead into
adulthood.
• Healthy eating is important in proper growth
and development.
Define Unhealthy
Unhealthy:
• not in a state of good or
normal health; not
conducive to good health;
unhealthy.
• Providing empty calories—
take away nutrients from
the body and can leave one
nutritional deficient.
• Eating foods that has very
little or nutritional value.
• Unhealthy foods can include
but not limited too:
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Foods high in sodium
Hydrogenated fats
Sodas
Fatty foods
Defining Disease
• Disease: a disordered or incorrectly
functioning organ, part, structure, or system
of the body resulting from the effect of the
genetic or developmental errors, infection
poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance,
toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors;
illness; sickness; aliment.
Diseases Related to Unhealthy Eating
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Diabetes
Obesity
Liver Disease
Heart Disease
Osteoarthritis
Certain Types of Cancer
Risk of Unhealthy Eating
• Chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, and cancer, as well as adverse health
conditions such as obesity are preventable but
unhealthy eating contribute to these conditions.
• Individuals become increasingly reliant on meals and
snacks that are characterized by a disproportionately
high percentage of saturated fats, salt, and sugar, the
association between unhealthy eating behavior and
ensuring health problems become more concerning.
Risk of Unhealthy Eating
• Many advantages of eating,
poor dietary habits are
common and trends such as
risking obesity suggest that
their prevalence is
increasing.
Statics of Unhealthy Eating
• More than 60% of young people eat too much fat, and
less than 20% eat the recommended five or more
servings of fruits and vegetable each day.
• Empty calories from added sugars and solid fats
contribute to 40% of daily calories.
• Chronic disease account for 7 of every 10 U.S. deaths and
for more than 60% medical care expenditures.
• Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating contributes to
obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes;
these two behaviors are responsible 300,000 deaths each
year.
Diabetes
• Type 1 Diabetes
– Known as Juvenile Diabetes that is diagnosed in young
children and young adults which the body does not
produce insulin.
• Type 2 Diabetes
– Most common form where the body does not produce
enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin.
• Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
– Happens in pregnant women in he body is not able to
make and use the all the insulin it needs for
pregnancy.
Type 2 Diabetes: Unhealthy Eating
• Eating more calories than the body needs:
– Leads to weight gain and overweight---leading
preventable cause of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Over consuming in calories, the body must
produce enough insulin to handle the excess
glucose
Diabetes: Food Choices
Obesity
• Obesity does not happen overnight, it
gradually comes from improper eating habits.
• Not only is obese is obese but can develop
into potentially life-threatening diseases:
– Type 2 diabetes
– Heart disease
– Cancer (breast cancer and colon cancer)
– Stroke
Childhood Obesity: Unhealthy
Eating
• Overweight is the most widespread health threat
facing children and adolescents in the United States.
• Childhood obesity is a preventable nutritional
disorder of the twenty-first century in the United
States.
• The availability to choose items such as soft drinks
and fast food and numerous of vending machines
has become the accepted behavior of today’s
culture.
Obesity: Unhealthy Eating
• Selection of unhealthy eating include:
– High consumption of processed or fast foods
(usually high in fat)
– No intake of fruit or vegetables
– Drinking heavily with alcohol
– Eating larger portions than you need
– Comfort eating
Liver Disease
• A healthy diet helps the liver to do its
functions well and keep it functioning for a
long time.
• Importance of liver:
– Second largest organ in the body
– It processes what you eat and drink into energy
and nutrients your body can use.
– Removes harmful substances from your blood.
Liver Disease: Unhealthy Eating
• Unhealthy diet can lead to liver disease can
make the liver work very hard and cause more
damage.
Understanding Terms To Avoid
Unhealthy Eating
• Cholesterol
– A waxy substance that builds up in the bloodstream
and block arteries, that can result in heart attack or
stroke
– Diet that high in fat raises cholesterol levels
• Fats
– Unsaturated fats: olive or vegetable oil, are better
– Saturated fats: meats, eggs, poultry and dairy
products: not heart healthy and should be eaten in
moderation
– Trans fats: unhealthy, lower “good” cholesterol and
raise total cholesterol
Understanding Terms To Avoid
Unhealthy Eating
• Sodium
– Can raise blood pressure which is the leading risk
factors for having a heart attack or stroke. Limit
canned or processed foods.
• Calories
– Diets high in calories can lead to obesity and even
heart disease.
• Grains
– A diet consisting of highly processed and refined
grains do not contain the beneficial dietary fiber.
Ways to Avoid Unhealthy Eating
• Read Nutrition Labels
– Understanding food labels will help to avoid
choices with worst ingredients.
– Limiting exposure to unhealthy foods is able to
reduce the risk of serious health problems.
• Focus on following “MyPlate”
• Portion Distortion
• Plan Meals
Reading Nutrition Labels
MyPlate
Unhealthy Eating: Summary
• Unhealthy eating is something many of us do
and an activity that we learned from parents
and therefore can be un-learned to.
• Proper nutrition education and gradually
cutting back on unhealthy foods can help
reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
• Promoting and encouraging healthy eating can
create an environment that supports certain
behavior that are essential to reducing the
high risk of chronic diseases.
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