Management and Leadership - Sample Assignment

Running head: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Management and leadership
Name of Student:
Name of College:
Authors note:
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MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
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MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Response
Last month I and few of my college colleagues who were enrolled in course for management and
leadership subjects got a chance to visit a discussion forum of dietetic and nutritional
professionals hosted by Dietitians Association of Australia. DAA is professional body that
represents members within nutrition profession who held talks and sessions to motivate and
make society people aware on health, diet and choices of food. These representatives speak on
various subjects or questions that advocates building a strong and healthier society (DDA 2018).
During one of such discussion forums that I and my colleagues attended, the members of DAA
delivered talks surrounding the research and issues based on evidenced information specifically
focusing on fast food, impacts of fast food nutritional value and consumption over local and
national people. They also talked about issues that are faced by industry of fast food based on
nutrition and implication on health of consumers.
In this event I got to learn different facts and issues that are critical to fast food and nutrition and
with my experience from talks that I heard I realized that childhood obesity has been the critical
and serious public health issues that revolves around fast food industry. I found that members of
DAA indicated that such obese children eventually grow into overweight adults who are
vulnerable to serious health issues like diabetes, cardiac issues etc and these health issues drive
strong burden on Australian health systems and economy (Chen, Goto, Wolff & Zhao 2015).
I realized from the discussions that a strong management and leadership focus is needed to drive
the awareness in public for better response to fast food health issues and management.
Particularly, limiting to policies that encourage healthy eating habits among public is not enough
and more needs to be done for better control of issues. I felt the need was more to educate people
on issues that are posed by fast food consumption when done in uncontrolled manner so I felt
that more health awareness campaigns need to be conducted specially in schools, colleges and
public events so that parents of children can be educated on ways to balance the diet of their kids
to give them proper nutrition as well as guidance to chose their food. Along with this I felt
awareness camps like fun events can be hosted in schools where kids get to learn the issues of
overconsumption of fast food so that they could deal with challenge to eat healthy food.
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