Impact of Dietary Habits on Public Health.

Nighat Wadood, Ayush Madan

Abstract

Public health is the science of defending and improving the health of people and their communities. Health does not without a doubt suggest “absence of disease” or “physical fitness”. It ought to be described as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Unfortunately, today’s world has been tailored to a device of consumption of ingredients which has several adverse effects on human health. Basic nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins are the basis of all existence activities. They represent the carbon skeleton of various functional molecules, and grant strength through oxidative decomposition. When nutrition is enough or excessive, the physique faces the problems of quantitative control of the absorption and storage of the nutrients. Over nutrition, specifically absorption and storage of energy, can no longer affect fitness and additionally motive many diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and hyperlipidemia. Over nutrition may reduce reproductive ability and promotes the enhancement of a number of cancers.

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