Essays on Bad Eating Habits

Assignment 1 — Report on a public health campaign

Executive summary The report analyses common public health problems in Australia. Currently, a majority of the Australia’s population is consuming large amounts of Alcohol and foods containing sugars and unsaturated fats. According to the health forum of Australia, the population is aging, and incidences of chronic diseases are increasing. Most of the Australians, especially teenagers, have changed their diet by eating fewer fruits and vegetables while eating more foods containing calories (Carroll, 2014). Get Set 4 Life campaign targets young children aged four years and below.

Unhealthy eating leads to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, ...

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explains how he found that what makes exceptional people so exceptional is has less to do with some unique, personal, and individual characteristic that they are born with and much more to do with where they are from as well as the social, cultural, and economic influences that they experienced in life. Although Gladwell’s focus was on people’s psychology, his findings are also true of people’s food choices, dietary practices and eating habits. A comparison of the dietary choices and behaviors of a friend and myself is illustrative of this ...

Poor eating habits and issues of depression

It has already proven by various studies that the eating habits often result in altering the depression levels in humans. Further, the junk food and other unhealthy foods are often held accountable for the affecting the health of frequent consumers. The impact on the mental health is just another consequence that occurs due to the consumption of unhealthy diets that ignore the inclusion of basic nutrition in the regular diet of the individuals. Further, once the depression state starts for an individual, it triggers overeating tendencies which cause further weight gain for the patients. The combined impact of growing ...