Nutrition, Challenges of Emerging Population, and Nutritional Deficiency and Excess Play

Cultural Competence and Nutrition in Health Promotion
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Cultural Competence and Nutrition in Health Promotion
Nutrition is a critical science discipline that examines the relationship between nutrition and general health. Besides, nutrition is a central component in health promotion since the human body needs it to grow, develop, and sustain its normal functioning. Health promotion is closely connected to disease prevention, and it is crucial in alleviating disease, enhancing mortality rate, promoting life quality, and decreasing the economic burden on the healthcare sector (Munoz, 2022). Therefore, nutrition is a core element in health promotion since it is a primary element of an individual's psychological, physical, and mental health. Hence, the absence of disease symptoms does not necessarily translate to a healthy individual (Manimegalai & Ramesh, 2019). Nutrition plays a crucial role in disease prevention, health improvement, and life quality. Ultimately, when individuals do not embrace a healthy diet, they are prone to malnutrition-related diseases, heart diseases, and lifestyle diseases like cancer and diabetes.
The recent technological advancements that have infiltrated food production have come with numerous nutritional challenges that negatively impact emerging populations. The challenges are so diverse that they affect most individuals in urban centers. With the busy lifestyle of urban centers, the population is preoccupied with vocations thus unable to partake in a proper diet, therefore, resorting to fast foods. Fast foods often lack vital daily minerals that the human body requires for normal functioning he...