Why is nutrition important
Health and Social Care
Unit 21
Rebecca White
Ian
Nutrition
2170116
Why do you think nutrition is important in health and social care?
Nutrition is important in health and social care because when others are in an unstable condition and may need looking after for example someone in a care home or a hospital with no ability to really care for themselves they will need others to take care of what they eat as the right diet requirements will need to be matched in order to improve their health and nutrition is important for recovery from illnesses and it will also need to be matched to whether they have any allergies. Getting the right amount of nutrients from the five food groups, fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, milk and dairy, fats and sugars and protein, are necessary to keep them from malnutrition. Malnutrition can happen when someone’s diet does not contain the right amount of nutrients and can either cause undernutrition which may lead to famine, bulimia or anorexia nervosa and can restrict someone from growth and from recovering from a disease or it can lead to the opposite, overnutrition, which may follow to obesity or being overweight which can then lead to chronic heart diseases and diabetes. Both, undernutrition and overnutrition, are very life threatening conditions and should always try to be prevented.
Which part of this unit do you think you will find most difficult?
In this unit I think I will find remembering what foods come under the five different food groups and what each food group will be able to give someone the most difficult as I’ve always had trouble with this.
Which aspects of health and nutrition do you find most interesting?
The aspects that I find most interesting of health and nutrition is when comparing and finding out the right nutrition and diets needed for someone who is for example an athlete and someone else who is unemployed and finding out the differences between them. With these examples they will need different diets
Unit 21
Rebecca White
Ian
Nutrition
2170116
Why do you think nutrition is important in health and social care?
Nutrition is important in health and social care because when others are in an unstable condition and may need looking after for example someone in a care home or a hospital with no ability to really care for themselves they will need others to take care of what they eat as the right diet requirements will need to be matched in order to improve their health and nutrition is important for recovery from illnesses and it will also need to be matched to whether they have any allergies. Getting the right amount of nutrients from the five food groups, fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, milk and dairy, fats and sugars and protein, are necessary to keep them from malnutrition. Malnutrition can happen when someone’s diet does not contain the right amount of nutrients and can either cause undernutrition which may lead to famine, bulimia or anorexia nervosa and can restrict someone from growth and from recovering from a disease or it can lead to the opposite, overnutrition, which may follow to obesity or being overweight which can then lead to chronic heart diseases and diabetes. Both, undernutrition and overnutrition, are very life threatening conditions and should always try to be prevented.
Which part of this unit do you think you will find most difficult?
In this unit I think I will find remembering what foods come under the five different food groups and what each food group will be able to give someone the most difficult as I’ve always had trouble with this.
Which aspects of health and nutrition do you find most interesting?
The aspects that I find most interesting of health and nutrition is when comparing and finding out the right nutrition and diets needed for someone who is for example an athlete and someone else who is unemployed and finding out the differences between them. With these examples they will need different diets