Prepare a poster to raise awareness on the types of nutrients required to avoid
➢ Deficiency disease
➢ Popular diets that are being followed by people across the globe and
➢ Justify its merits and demerits.
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Adequate nutrition is an important aspect of a healthy lifestyle for all individuals, including bank staff. The objective of this study was to investigate the awareness of food nutritive value and eating practices among bank workers in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. A purposive sample of 250 bank workers took part in the study. Means and Student t tests were employed for data analysis.
Results showed that bank workers were aware of the nutritive value of foods, and that eating practices commonly adopted included skipping breakfast, eating breakfast at work, buying food at work from the bank canteen, eating in between meals, buying snacks as lunch, and consuming soft drinks daily, among others. There were no significant differences between male and female bank workers in mean responses on food nutritive value or in eating practices adopted.
Good eating habits will help bank workers not only to improve their nutritional well-being, but also to prevent nutrition-related diseases. The implications for nutritional counseling and education are discussed in the context of these findings.
Keywords: awareness, bank workers, eating practices, food, nutritional counseling, nutritive value
1. Introduction
In recent years, the scope of public health practice has continued to expand given the call to action to promote sustainable health and nutrition. Therefore, eating practices and the nutritive value of consumed foods are becoming increasingly important areas of research for nutritional counseling professionals across the globe.[1] Adequate and proper nutrition is an important aspect of a healthy lifestyle.
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Therefore, it is essential to promote an awareness of the nutrients contained in foods in relation to their roles in body maintenance, growth, reproduction, health, and disease prevention in humans. Appropriate nutrition is important for a variety of reasons, including optimal cardiovascular function, muscle strength, respiratory ventilation, protection from infection, wound healing, and psychological well-being.[3] Additionally, it helps to prevent nutrition-related diseases through a diet containing the right amount of food constituents, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water, required for body building and defense, energy supply, and regulatory functions.
The nutritional intake of individuals in developing countries such as Nigeria appears to be undergoing a transition from high-fiber, calorie-sparse, low-protein diets to low-fiber, calorie-dense, and high-protein diets.[1,4] This changing pattern, particularly with respect to carbohydrate intake, appears to be a contributory factor to the increasing prevalence of obesity, which is a major risk factor for many noncommunicable nutrition-related diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and nutrition-induced cancer.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that nutrition-related diseases account for about 60% of all deaths, and 43% of the global burden of disease,[6] and that by 2020, the impact of nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases is expected to rise to 73% of all deaths and 60% of the global burden of disease.[7] According to the WHO, the conditions that promote unhealthy eating practices among individuals include a lack of adequate health and nutritional knowledge, and the acquisition of misinformation about health and nutrition matters.[8] In addition, when foods are not consumed in quantities commensurate with individuals’ body needs, malnutrition or over-nutrition may set in.
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Diet and food-based approaches play an essential role in presenting micronutrient malnutrition by increasing the availability and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. In the long-term, such approaches are more likely to be sustainable. However, the benefit of such approaches is not immediate. If overt micronutrient malnutrition (xerophthalmia, goitre or cretinism, or severe iron deficiency anaemia) is present, short-term supplementation programmes should be implemented in addition to starting food-based activities.
In rural areas, major food-based efforts will likely be on horticultural programmes. In urban settings, there is generally better overall food availability as well as the potential for access to fortified food products. It is still beneficial to promote home gardens in pert-urban areas. No matter what location, nutrition education activities strengthen and complement efforts to enhance availability micronutrient-rich foods.