How Nutrition Education is Used to Prevent Obesity and Chronic Illnesses

Identifying Partnership Models or Collaborative Strategies
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Nutrition education is the process of transmitting nutrition knowledge to targeted people to reduce, avoid, or delay the onset of health issues. Nutrition education is essential, as it helps people make informed choices when deciding the diet to take. Over the last decade, cases of obesity, hypertension, cancer, and cardiovascular illnesses have been rising in the United States (US) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021). It is especially evident among children and adolescents. The statistics can be attributed to their poor dietary choices, prevalent in all regions of the country. The health need of concern in this essay is poor food choices. The issue has been declared an epidemic, which has called for collaborative strategies to alleviate the problem. One crucial collaborative strategy has been nutrition education in schools and the community. Consistent and dedicated nutrition education is likely to help reduce obesity and chronic illnesses in the country (Aspry et al., 2018). It will be possible due to the knowledge transmission in the simplest terms, which is expected to bring positive behavior change.
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Nutrition Education in Schools and Community Gatherings
Nutrition education on healthy food choices entails passing knowledge and information regarding diet control and health to the intended audience. Nutrition education is a collaborative strategy by teachers, social workers, public health nutritionists, clinical officers, young people engaging in unhealthy food choices, and the community (Aspry et al., 2018). To prevent obesity and other chronic or lifestyle diseases, it is paramount to engage the community in nutrition education classes.
Diet holds a very significant role in causing chronic and lifestyle diseases. Diets that are considered a poor food choice include those that are high in saturated fats, salts, cholesterol, and calories ( Devries et al., 2017). When taken for some time, such diets are likely to lead to the onset of diabetes, obesity, heart diseases, osteoporosis, and even stroke. Unfortunately, the obesity rate among children and adolescents has spiked in the last decade (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021). Obesity among this population has now been termed an epidemic.
Nutrition education processes aim to reduce, avoid, and delay the prevalence and severity of lifestyle diseases and life-threatening conditions. The most significant benefit of nutrition education is changing their poor food choice habits by applying learned knowledge ( Devries et al., 2017).
The nutrition education forum is being done in several forms. One is the one-on-one sessions, where health camps are planned and executed in the community. In the health camps, the community members with specific health conditions are facilitated to meet nutrition and diet experts one-on-one ( Rose et al., 2019). At the health facilities, nutritionists and registered dietitians engage patients with a knowledge or ...