P1 Health Promotion

Health promotion is essential, this means, overweight or obese individuals should work with the doctor and a dietitian to set realistic goals that will help lose weight slowly through diet and exercise. It may be helpful to find support from friends, family, or community in order to make lifestyle changes that will lead to long-term weight loss.
Health promotion is the educational and environmental supports for actions and conditions of living a healthy lifestyle. This also involves a health professional. For example, a nurse helping you achieve a healthy living. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions (World Health Organisation, n.d.).

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Obesity can be caused by different things such as diet, lack of exercise, an individual’s environment and it can also be caused by genetics. Furthermore, to the causes of obesity, there are many health risks of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure which can lead to a brain damage and kidney failure. However, there are early prevention and amendments to these risks such as exercising regularly and eating healthy for a healthy lifestyle. Despite these early preventions, there are treatments to amend the already existing condition, such as gastric bypass surgery but, this is still very much unlikely to provide an individual with a long lasting result because it is only quicker, easier, and therefore, temporary. On the contrary, living a healthy lifestyle, maintaining a good diet and regular exercise are the best way to stay at a healthy weight. Individual excuse themselves from living healthy in the view of genetic cause and some have the knowledge that children cannot be at risk of chronic disease but only adults. Ivan Illich when defined health stated “the ability to suffer” is health and adaptation to changes. Therefore, individuals in this circumstance should be able to make changes in their lifestyle and adapting to the hard work that comes with living
It is my belief the harder it feels to gain a healthy life, the better, long lasting and valued it will be. But, the easier and quicker it feels (gastric bypass surgery) the less it will be valued and only temporary, also considering the economic impact. Obesity as research is caused by a number of different factors. Regardless of what causes obesity, it is a serious problem that seems to be increasing on a daily basis. It is up to everyone to work hard towards making great