Unit 21: P3, M2, D1
Unit 21: task 3: P3, M2, D1
In this assignment I will be choosing and describing a service user for my case study and I’m going to explain how some factors such as medical disorders, life style and many more may have influenced their dietary intake. Due to the data protection I will not be using their real name.
Service user’s history
Aisha Ismail is 35 years old. She is a British African and has been brought up by her grandmother and now she’s living with her husband and 3 children. She is a Muslim and lives in New Parks Leicester. Aisha’s a wife and a house wife. She is not able to go to work due to her sickle cell disorder.
Aisha was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes. This was due to her unhealthy diets of junk food such as pizza, chips, chocolate, cakes, biscuits, sweets and fizzy drinks. She never exercises but she does walk every morning when she takes her younger son to school. She does not look obese as she has an average physical weight. She loves to sit at home on the computer everyday, but she also does house chores such as cleaning, cooking and watching TV.
Medical disorder
P3: Aisha has high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. She might not look obese, but her BMI shows that she is obese. Diabetes is caused by excessive thirst and large amount of urine. Diabetes occurs when the body is not able to use the glucose in properly and it could also be because the person is lacking hormone insulin or the insulin available does not work properly. If diabetes is left untreated, it could lead to death. There are 2 types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the body is not able to produce any insulin and it usually starts when you are young. A good diet would help control type one diabetes. Type 2 diabetes in the other hand produces enough insulin or the body makes the insulin but it doesn’t work effectively. This usually affect people when they are older but nowadays, it has started to increase in the number of overweight
In this assignment I will be choosing and describing a service user for my case study and I’m going to explain how some factors such as medical disorders, life style and many more may have influenced their dietary intake. Due to the data protection I will not be using their real name.
Service user’s history
Aisha Ismail is 35 years old. She is a British African and has been brought up by her grandmother and now she’s living with her husband and 3 children. She is a Muslim and lives in New Parks Leicester. Aisha’s a wife and a house wife. She is not able to go to work due to her sickle cell disorder.
Aisha was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes. This was due to her unhealthy diets of junk food such as pizza, chips, chocolate, cakes, biscuits, sweets and fizzy drinks. She never exercises but she does walk every morning when she takes her younger son to school. She does not look obese as she has an average physical weight. She loves to sit at home on the computer everyday, but she also does house chores such as cleaning, cooking and watching TV.
Medical disorder
P3: Aisha has high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. She might not look obese, but her BMI shows that she is obese. Diabetes is caused by excessive thirst and large amount of urine. Diabetes occurs when the body is not able to use the glucose in properly and it could also be because the person is lacking hormone insulin or the insulin available does not work properly. If diabetes is left untreated, it could lead to death. There are 2 types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the body is not able to produce any insulin and it usually starts when you are young. A good diet would help control type one diabetes. Type 2 diabetes in the other hand produces enough insulin or the body makes the insulin but it doesn’t work effectively. This usually affect people when they are older but nowadays, it has started to increase in the number of overweight