MEDI150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hypertension, Blood Vessel, Cholesterol
6 Aug 2018
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Public health nutrition improving the food supply. Risk factors: non preventable, genetics, age, body shape, preventable, tobacco smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol. Insufficient physical activity: overweight and obesity, poor nutrition, diabetes. Why: growth in consumption, growth in overweight/obesity, need to increase consumer understanding. Initially had a voluntary approach to encourage food outlets to adopt certain recipes to make healthy failure due to lack of compliance. Process: provide consistent, clear nutrition (energy) information across fast food chains, ensure consumers were better informed and encouraged to make healthier choices. 8700kj campaign: ensure fast food outlets were compliant with regulations, make positive contribution to strategies designed to reduce overweight/obesity and chronic disease. 8700kj campaign: strategy focused on integrated approach to help consumers, notice information on energy boards, understand kj as a measure of energy, put kj information into context e. g. % daily intake, reduce kj intake.
