Critical Reflection on experience in
completing module
own view on food
prior to attend this module
Food is to satisfy the hunger, in order to be active, and
different types of food used in different culture and nation. At the same time there is no specific place that have been
selected for eating for instance, healthier food restaurant or vegetarian
restaurant. This is all the consideration and information I knew before the
start of this module, but at end of this module simply I can say that now I can
collect data about any topic that related to food issues, while based on my
perilous knowledge I can easily conduct research on cultural difference in
food. Perilously I thought food is just for eating nothing much, even if there
are some diet methods and heathy diet I just leave them as it is but
after all those literature review reading it force me to take consideration on
food elements and research on healthier foods which increase my knowledge on
food habits.
Concepts / issues
related to food in the context if your
own particular professional future
Its obvious that food related problems are increasing past
decades, in my opinion in future it will be much more difficult to address
these problems . The following are the areas or issue that on food related
problems that have to be addresses in future
Obesity
Obesity has become a global epidemic, and it is still
increasing in both industrialized and developing countries. For example, the
prevalence of child obesity and overweight has doubled world wide during the
past two decades. Obesity and overweighting increasing Maldives authorities has
to take immediate action against it.
Due to the difficulty of curing obesity in adults and the many
long-term adverse effects of childhood obesity, the pre-vention of child
obesity has been recognized as a public health priority. Increasing evidence
shows that childhood obesity has a profound influence on morbidity and
mortality in adult life. However, few
studies have examined the worldwide situation regarding childhood obesity,
particularly due to the fact that no standard or reference is agreed upon international-ally.
Food Security
Food safety is an essential public health issue around the
world. Foodborne diseases due to microbial pathogens, biotoxins, and chemical
contaminants in food represent serious threats to the health of many people
round the world. Serious outbreaks of foodborne disease have been documented on
every parts of the world in the past decades. Everywhere consumers view
foodborne disease outbreaks with ever-increasing concern. Outbreaks are likely,
however, to be only the most visible aspect of a much broader, more persistent
problem. Foodborne diseases not only significantly affect people's health and
well-being, but they also have economic consequences for individuals, families,
communities, businesses and countries. These diseases impose a substantial
burden on health-care systems and markedly reduce economic productivity. Poor
people tend to live from day to day, and loss of income due to foodborne
illness perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
Food
Cost
The cost of foods also affects the choice of food. The food
prices will affect some groups of the population. It also has been found that
those in lower socio economic groups consume less fruits and vegetables than
those in higher socio economic groups.
Cost can be a particularly important factor in what people
choose to eat. In some cases, the least healthy choice are also most affordable-high fat and high-sugar
foods, for example, tend to cost less per calorie than healthier alternatives
like fruits and vegetables. This could make it difficult for some lower income
consumers to afford healthier options.
Dietary
Choices
Individual
dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Proper nutrition’s we need for our
body in the form of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Food is essentially
considered to consist of nutrition’s that support body growth and metabolism to
provide energy. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the
quality of life, health and longevity. A healthy diet may improve or maintain
optimal health. In developed countries affluence enables unconstrained caloric
intake and possibly inappropriate food choices (Sloan, Legrand &
Chen, 2008).
It
is recommended by many authorities to be healthy that people should maintain a
normal weight by limiting the consumption of energy dense foods and sugary
drinks. People should in take more plant based foods like vegetables. Also
limit red and processed meat and limit the drinking of alcohol.
Significant
learning that you have drawn in relation to your understanding of food and your
goal(s)
Anthropology and sociology of food module has given me the
opportunity to further research about food and , provides lot of information
about food habits, choices, factors that influence the food habits, theory’s
and models that literature have conducted. By evaluating and researching all
those research, I found that it is important to have certain expectations on
food. Since food is important aspects of life, its obvious that every one must
have to their responsibility to aware the knowledge and information to the
sociality at large. More over this module provide me an important aspect that
we need to focused on while researching on food related studies. Evaluation methods
and designing research frame work to a food related topic made this module more
interesting and it will benefit for me to design and conduct a research on food
related studies in my home country Maldives where there in limited or nor
studies conducted. While it has been noted that on this field of researcher are
less and it the urgency of studies needed to conducted in this filed, because
it relates to many peoples health related problems.
In future I would like to work as a resort manager, for in
that particular industry is best place where i can offer people new ways to
adopt their food baits. Most importantly this has been done because early I
have mention the problem that people are facing due to food habits.
Nutrition
education is very important in the life of every human being. It helps to make
many wise decisions about food. (Salovaara, 2006). For example what type of
food to eat, when to eat the foods, how many times you need to take foods eat
day and what combination of food provide a healthy diet. Early development of
food preferences are important in establishing life-long food habits. There
fore nutrition education is one aspect will be focuses on. As a manager and of
resort their will be corporate social responsibility so under our CSR I will
conduct nutrition education program to Primary School students parents and
Pre-school parents as well as the NGO’s so the awareness will be created around
the society as well as country.
Introducing
healthier menus in Both staff and main restaurant for tourist and will take
necessary steps to reduce the price of food without compromising the quality of
food. This will encourage people to choose healthier foods. In restaurant areas
kitchens and other areas healthier and good practice of food habits messages
and quotes will be displayed.
Reference:
Ridde, V. (2007). Reducing social inequalities in health: public health, community health or health promotion?. Promotion & Education, 14(2), 63-67.
Khan, M., & Hackler, L. (1981). Evaluation of food selection patterns and preferences. C R C Critical Reviews In Food Science And Nutrition, 15(2), 129-153.
Salovaara,. (2006). 4th European Symposium on Oats--Oats and Healthy Foods. CFW.
No comments:
Post a Comment