Understanding the Impact of Unhealthy Nutrition and Obesity: Global Epidemic and Prevention Strategies

Introduction
• Nutrition is referred to as the science that explains the relation of
nutrients and other substances in meals to maintain progress,
reproduction sickness and health.
• Defiency related illnesses are caused by unhealthy diet in humans.
• Unhealthy nutrition can lead to threatening diseases such as obesity
and metabolic syndrome.

Cont.
• Obesity is a public health issue which is epidemic globally.
• Research has indicated that overweight and obesity are the main
causes of co-morbidities encompassing type II diabetes ,
cardiovascular diseases , cancers and other health issues that can
cause death (Uyamasi, Zheng and Strasser 2018 ).
• The healthcare costs are substantial hence there is need to develop
methods for the prevention of gaining excess weight and obesity.
• However, public health recommendation strategies have had least
benefits in dealing with the prevalence of obesity which is increasing
(Archer, Pavela and Lavie 2015, pp. 911-926 ).

Cont.
• Obesity refers to when a person is so overweight that it poses a threat
regarding their health.
• Research has indicated that the sum of overweight individuals rivals
the sum of underweight individuals for the first time in history of
humans.
• The overweight population has grown quickly in current decades.
• In united states, 55% of adults are overweight by international
standards (Hales, Fryar, Carroll, Freedman and Ogden 2018, pp.1723-
1725).