Nutritiousness involves the process of the body taking in food and vital nutrients from it that are required for life. Nutrition is central to health promotion because it plays a critical role in a person’s body, including providing physical growth, recovering from injury and fighting diseases, lactation, reproduction, and general development (Vilar-Compte et al., 2021). Thus, a person with a specific nutritional deficiency is likely to have health problems. This study will evaluate the nutritional challenges for emerging populations and the roles of nutritional deficiency and nutritional excess on diseases.
In the modern world, emerging populations face various challenges, which have led to increased obesity and nutrition-related diseases. These may include the high availability of unhealthy foods with high fat, sugar, calories, and salt. The other factor is advanced marketing systems which significantly impact children’s eating decisions (Vilar-Compte et al., 2021). Sometimes, populations cannot access healthy foods due to poverty and geographic location. Finally, nutrition information is unavailable for most populations; hence they do not know the foods to take at a given age and how it impacts their body.
Nutritional deficiency or nutritional excess plays a significant role in disease management. For instance, high nutritional levels of refined fats and carbohydrates integrated with physical inactivity can lead to chronic inflammatory diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and obesity (Muscaritoli, 2021). On the contrary, when a person lacks various essential nutrients, they are likely to have poor immune functions, stunted growth, and other conditions such as depression, scurvy, xerophthalmia, and osteoporosis (Muscaritoli, 2021). A high intake of amino acids, short-chain fatty acids, and oligosaccharides can lead to anti-inhibitory functions in the body. This shows that nutritional balance is essential in the development of a body, and thus excess or deficient intake can lead to health complications.
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Vilar-Compte, M., Burrola-Méndez, S., Lozano-Marrufo, A., Ferré-Eguiluz, I., Flores, D., Gaitán-Rossi, P., Teruel, G., & Pérez-Escamilla, R. (2021). Urban poverty and nutrition challenges associated with accessibility to a healthy diet: a global systematic literature review.International Journal for Equity in Health, 20(1).