CULTURE OF NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS IN HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION: ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEMS ARISING FROM POOR DIETS AND LACK OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

In the century we live in nutrition has taken on tremendous importance. It constitutes the basic discipline of health care. Not only that, treatment through proper nutrition (nutritional medical therapy), improves the quality of life and saves costs for health care. It is already known that diseases of the century such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc., which pose a serious threat. An important factor in staying healthy is eating the right things in the right amount. To clarify this, you can compare the body to a car that does not start unless enough fuel has been thrown away. In the same way the body does not function if it has not received enough nutrients. It means that one must take in nutrients to function regularly. These we get from the food we ate. When food passes through the digestive tract it is digested, then the body uses the nutrients that are in the food .. Therefore, it is important to live and eat healthy and not be overweight. If you are not sick it does not mean that you are healthy. Health is more than the absence of disease.
A balanced diet refers to a diet that provides all the elements and minerals needed to keep us healthy. The development and rooting of positive eating habits and physical activity through education is very valuable for young people. Awareness of young people in this regard makes them tend to carry these habits even in adulthood. Eating a healthy diet and exercising is essential to feeling good, to being more energetic, to improving physical and mental health by reducing stress, pain, and depression, to managing many health problems and to prevent overweight, heart attacks, high blood pressure, arthritis, and anxiety.
The problems that can come from the lack of a culture of nutrition, are numerous and cause various problems in the body. Also, the lack of a balanced diet and a sedentary life (without physical activity) is a source of disease, part of it. which can be fatal to life.
Some of these smudges that come from malnutrition are obesity, diabetes, bulimia, heart disease, blood diseases, hypertension, bowel cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, anorexia.
The purpose of this paper is to sensitize young people of these ages to take care of themselves, to know how to build a balanced diet of quantity and quality combined with physical activity, to prevent diseases and problems that may arise.
With our conclusions and recommendations, we aim to draw attention and influence as little as possible in the right solution of these problems, sensitizing not only young people, but also parents and teachers so that together we can achieve the final goal, creating a such a culture that focuses on health care.