Public Health Nutritionist: Mitigating Nutrition-Related Ailments

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Public Health
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Public Health
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(Your name)
(Address of your university)
(City)
30.10.2018.
To the Manager,
Camperdown Public Health Unit,
PO Box 374,
Camperdown 2050.
Dear Mr. /Ms.
A public health nutritionist is necessary for our public health unit or service. In light of
this, such an expert will provide advice to persons on ways in which they can lead better and
healthy lives. Nutritionists play a critical role in aiding unhealthy employees to be more
productive. Healthy eating and exercise help a person to maintain the relevant health status.
Precisely, public health nutritionists avail customized health information. A public health
nutritionist is significant in helping people attain good health.
Public health nutritionists develop diet-related policies and strategies to aid in mitigating
nutritive-associated ailments. Such strategies identify the essential role of both physical
involvement and nutrition in determining the appropriate diet. Remarkably, public health
nutritionists explain major nutritive concerns to persons particularly those at a greater risk of
acquiring such sicknesses. They evaluate both health as well as diet requirements of staff

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members. Therefore, this will help in boosting productivity in the public health unit. These
professionals establish effective and efficient meal plans of different people. Public health
nutritionists also examine the effect of various meals. Necessary adjustments are made when it is
necessary. Therefore, a public health nutritionist is significant in helping people attain good
health.
Sincerely,
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Introduction
Public health nutritionists are experts in both nutrition and food. They are significant to
organizations as they help in mitigating nutrition-related ailments. The beverages and food that
people drink and eat are significant in maintaining overall wellbeing and health. Food provides
nutrients as well as energy. Conversely, the excessive or insufficient provision of certain
nutrients may lead to ill health. There are several health conditions which are affected by diet.
These include high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, stroke, and coronary heart disease. Others are
type 2 diabetes, and nutritional anaemia, dental caries, gallbladder disease, and some types of
cancers.
Ill health typically cannot be caused by one food nutrient or component alone. Ailments
caused by nourishment are also related to genetic, societal, biological, behavioral and
environmental factors. The complex relationship between other diseases as well as risk factors
and food make it almost impossible to evaluate the contribution of nutrition to ill health. In a
balanced diet, the nutrients and energy supplied are usually enough to make sure there is tissue
growth, repair, and maintenance (Nestle, 2013). The minerals, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, and
proteins necessary to maintain a person's body in the appropriate health status are met by
consuming a variety of nutritive foods.
Prevalence of nutrition-associated risk factors.
Obesity, diabetes, cancer, dental carries, cardiovascular diseases, and osteoporosis are
some of the nutrition-associated non-communicable diseases that negatively impact the health of
the Australian population. There is a prevalence of nutritive-related risk factors particularly in
Australia. Low consumption of vegetables and fruits, physical inactivity, tobacco smoking,