Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Marc Lalonde, Almaty, Health Promotion
24 Dec 2015
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The planned change of health-related lifestyles and life conditions through a variety of individual and environmental strategies : emphasis on planned change, they don"t just happen they are planned, as well as emphasis on lifestyle and life conditions. To try to get rid of the unhealthy habits we have as humans. To limit premature death, and to promote optimal health. Obesity rates are increasing: working patterns shifted from farming and working in the elds (labour) to desk work, lack of activities of daily life, doubled in the last 30 years. Soda consumption has also doubled in the last thirty years. Culture has an emphasis on big (supersizing food) Larger portions: fries, chocolate, and pop has been eaten for a long time, and was never good for you but people were eating smaller portions. Decline in physical activity, people are becoming more sedimentary: except for in bc and al, people in canada aren"t even getting 50% of the physical.
