Healthy Food Case Study

In a diet there are 7 components and nutrients needed in order to stay healthy. There’s Carbohydrates, protein, fibre, fat, vitamins, water and minerals. All of these are needed within balance in order to stay healthy and can be obtained from fruits, nuts and other healthy foods; http://www.nhs.uk/livewell (2014). A study has shown that teenagers who eat lots of take-ways or fast food are more likely to behave badly or more aggressively. Newspapers and researchers have also blamed these dietary choices to metal health conditions such as depression, aggression and delinquency but this is just from a journalistic point of view, but NHS Studies also prove that this is linked; http://www.nhs.uk/ (2009). Within a diet mainly directed towards older teenagers aged 16-19, even if that person has a good metabolism, it doesn’t mean they’re necessarily eating foods which contain all the right nutrients for a happy, health and problem free life. Even though the average daily calorie intake for older teenagers depends on the level of exercise the person is doing, total junk food shouldn’t be eaten all the time

Apart from the effects on a person’s metabolism which effects the rate in which a person burns calories while and BMI means body mass index which relates too how healthy they are on a percentile chart of 0-99, this is determined through weight, height and age but an unhealthy diet lacking on all the correct nutrients can be just as serious too. Some short term effects of poor diet can be poor brain function, this prohibits the speed in which a person is able to re-call and store new information. Then there’s the ones which speak for themselves such as poor exercise capabilities, lack of sleep and indigestion due to the poor diet not to mention rapid weight gain too, which can happen when eating foods such as pizza or Chinese where they contain a lot of fatty unhealthy