1. Offer your opinion as to the two critical infrastructure sectors you feel are currently most at risk. Provide reasoning as to why you hold this position and what role the private sector can play in decreasing this risk.
This post is going to be on an extremely important topic, diabetes. 1 in 4 people with diabetes, don’t even know they have it! This topic truly impacted me because both of my grandfathers that have already passed away had diabetes, so honestly diabetes is something that could be in my future. Recently, I read Sugar Nation by Jim O’Connell and I was pretty shocked from reading it and it opened my eyes to how severe the diabetes problem is in the world. The book is basically Mr. O’Connell’s recollection of being diagnosed pre-diabetic, his journey to find more information on treatment and how effective it is, and Mr. O’Connell’s father passing away from not taking care of his diabetes.
According to the latest statistics from various sources, 1 out of 3 kids are obese in America and obesity is gradually becoming more and more common as it affects 37 percent of all adults and nearly 18 percent of all children in America (Yaniv and Rosin, 2009). The problem of obesity is also rising in parts of the developing world, as income levels rise and people have access to fattier products. In fact, the percentage of adult obesity has more than doubled while children’s obesity rates have more than tripled within the past thirty years around the globe (Yaniv and Rosin, 2009). However, despite the rise in global obesity rates, an alarming estimate of about 112,000 deaths are associated with obesity each in the U.S. alone. One of the chief causes is many people suffering from obesity do not make healthy food choices (Sturm, Powell, Chriqui and Chaloupka, 2010). This is largely because it is less time consuming and less expensive too eat unhealthy. Poorer consumers are often price sensitive to
This act is really important for food retailers to meet their health and safety because it will reduce the risks for their customers on food poisoning. If food retailers don’t meet their health and safety they will be prosecuted, fined thousands, their reputation will reduce and customers will stop
Michael Pollan summarizes what we should eat in his book IN DEFENSE OF FOOD. There are many “edible food like substances in the supermarket” (1) indicates his disagreement how people consume processed food from supermarket. So, he advises people to eat whole fresh food and avoid the treated food. “Lots of processed foods and meats…makes people sick and fat” (10). Pollan concerns regarding public health due to processed food and then encourages people to eat lots of fruits and vegetables to be healthy. “We should eat less of any particular actual food” (51). People consider that they can lose their weight just by reducing their total consumption of fat and completely undermining the portion of other food they consume. To remain hale and hearty,
In each of the areas of specialist hygiene and compliance which we provide, there are industry regulations, with which you must comply by law and codes of practice which offer advicse on good practice within the industry. You can rest assured that you and your business are protected if you can demonstrate that you have done your best to comply, either with TR/19 for ductwork hygiene including kitchen grease extract, British Standard BS EN 15780 for ventilation hygiene, or L8 for legionella control.
Microbiological; define the inherent micro. risks to the ingredients, process, manufacturing environment, and finished product over the intended shelf life
Current consumer’s needs are well aligned with the needs of the new market. There is a global trend toward healthier better for you food products.
In contrast to high-carb, low-fat diets which have led to skyrocketing rates of diabetes, obesity, and other inflammatory diseases, those who go on a paleo diet typically report lower blood sugar, triglyceride, LDL (bad) cholesterol, and blood pressure levels. In addition they often slim down along with belly fat.
In 2014 a total of 29.1 million (9.3%) of the population have Diabetes, 21 million are diagnosed with it, and 8.1 million are undiagnosed. Now let's take a glance at 2016, more than 29 million people were with Diabetes, 86 million people with Prediabetes, Type 1 Diabetes accounts for about
But let's not con ourselves, they would still have needed to take care of the basics, which have not changed since diabetes was first regarded as a disease. If you too want to treat diabetes too, your starting points should be the just the same as ever -
The impact of nutrition on health is important and a person’s diet can be a huge factor in preventing chronic diseases. Many individuals are not aware of the quality and quantity of foods that should be consumed to prevent certain diseases. In regards, many countries have developed specific dietary guidelines
The Mediterranean diet can be defined as the combination of healthy habits practiced by the habitants of the countries bordering the Mediterranean sea, including Spain, Italy, Greece and the South of France. Each country takes a slightly different approach when practicing this diet, however, they all agree on two things:
You might have heard “Low Carb Diets” before; you might have frowned upon them because you thought they are “starving diets.” What if I told you Low Carb diets are not “starving diets” and they are proven to help with weight loss? Low carbohydrate diets are when you take out the sugar, the starches, the frozen dinners, so on and so forth. Instead, you will be eating healthy, natural foods which include lots and lots of vegetables! (1) (2)
In recent years the topic of dieting has been extremely controversial. It is clear that diets do cause people to lose weight, but what are the effects after the diet is over? The daily argument over this topic is if dieting helps or if it is actually more damaging to those who engage in them. Despite the fact that diets help those overweight lose weight; dieting harms the body and causes weight gain in the long run. This is because dieting alters the body not knowing when to feel full leading to overeating as well as causing biological and physical damage.