Proper Diet Can Prevent Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity.

If an individual is below what may be considered as normal weight, then they would be underweight. The concept applies for those who weigh more than what is considered as a healthy weight for their body type, in that they would be overweight, and if the overweight person is overweight in an excessive amounts, then they are obese. Any of these weight issues can cause an increase in health risk, the development of diseases, and possibly lead to death. Proper nutritional guidelines are necessary for each of these weight problems and each require specific diet plans to help. Contrary to many advertisements, there are no magic pills or diets that will instantly add or remove weight. It takes determining the proper nutrition, in adequate amounts of healthy foods for each individual need. It will require learning what foods to eat and when to eat it, a change in habits and a complete change in lifestyles, which may include increasing physical activity. It would help if each person were to set goals that they know they can achieve and to keep records of dietary intake, when they ate, how much was consumed, what time they ate, how much, and what type of physical activity was performed. Think positive and be nice to ourselves with our comments about ourselves (Sizer, & Whitney, 2013). Wolde, Berhan, and Chala wrote in their article:Determinants of Underweight, Stunting, and Wasting Among Schoolchildren; that weight issues start at home, that one contributing factor for the risks of underweight children is a household that has insecurities with food (Wolde, Berhan, & Chala, 2015). In the article: Associations Between Parental BMI, Socioeconomic Factors, Family Structure and Overweight in Finnish Children: a Path Model Approach; it was the suggestion that healthier lifestyle habits need to start at home with the parents setting a positive example, that there are “pathways between parental BMI and education and childhood overweight” (Parikka, et al. 2015).

References:

Parikka, S., Mäki, P., Levälahti, E., Lehtinen-Jacks, S., Martelin, T., & Laatikainen, T. (2015). Associations between parental BMI, socioeconomic factors, family structure and overweight in Finnish children: a path model approach. BMC Public Health,15(1), 1-10. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1548-1

Sizer, F. & Whitney, E. (2013). Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies (13th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.

Wolde, M., Berhan, Y., & Chala, A. (2015). Determinants of underweight, stunting and wasting among schoolchildren. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 93-110. doi:10.1186/s12889-014-1337-2