Nutrition for Food Scarcity Flashcards
what is the greatest cause of morbidity and mortality in the UK and worldwide
poor quality diets
What is an NCDs
non communicable diseases
how much have an NCDs risen
- they have risen from 46% of the global burden of disease in 2001 to 57% in 2020 these are largely diet related
what is linked with diet
- there is an increasing link between mental health
- diet can reduce depression symptoms
What is the single biggest cause of cancer
diet related - obesity
what is diet an important factor for
- recovery post surgery
- illness
- prevention of complications from existing illnesses such as type II diabetes
what are bags of taste
- leaders in behaviour change
- applied behaviour change programme shifting the long term diets of people facing food poverty away from high dependence on processed and take away food
- works in 11 local boroughs across the UK
what are the 5 ways to wellbeing
Connect with other people.
Good relationships are important for your mental wellbeing. …
Be physically active. Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness. …
Learn new skills. …
Give to others. …
Pay attention to the present moment (mindfulness)
what are health inequalities
systematic difference in health between different social groups within a society
what are health inequalities due to
age
sex
ethnicity - Indian 3x higher chance of getting diabetes
Deprivation
Why are health inequalities important
- Not fair - affect the weak and the vulnerable often
- are avoidable
- getting worse
- affect the population at large
What is deprivation
- this is diet and poverty
what are 25% of observed inequalities in the UK due to
- 25% of observed inequalities in the UK mortality are due to inequalities in diet
why should you cook at home
- over 50% of UK food consumption is ultra processed food
- home cooking is linked to reduced type II diabetes, weight gain and obesity
- cuts salt intake by 74%
- saves money
- enhances family life and reduces social isolation
- conveincie foods and food consumed outside homes are associated with non communicable diseases
what is ultra-processed food
- has more than 6 things in it
Why dont people cook at home
- Motivation
- Skills
what is motivation
- it equals incentive minus barriers
what are the barriers to cooking
taste
- poor skills and results
- food preferences
time
- allocation of time
- perception of time
- quick competing options
what are barriers to cooking for people in poverty
- confidence
- isolation
- mental health
what inputs cost into the barriers of people in poverty
- food preferences
- cheap competing options
- perception of costs - if it costs more it is probably healthy
what is connected to the poverty premium
- energy
- risk of waste
- food access transport
- information access
- upfront food costs of ingredients/bulk buying
- equipment and storage
- risk of waste
- scarcity mindset
how do people not have access to information
Education
- specialist terms
- language
- literacy
- food literacy
- misinformation
- digital literacy
Cultural
- habits
- identify
- digital literacy
Cost
- Wifi
- data
- eyesight
- theft
- scams
- food literacy
- device to access internet
Safety
- bulling
- mental health
- theft
- scams
- misinformation
what are the barriers for cooking people in poverty
Economic - what it costs
Psychological - what you feel about it
Structural - things outside your control
Practical - What you can learn
what are the social determinants of health inequalities
- these are the complex, interlinked wider societal issues that influence our health
what are the potential options to improve diet
- school education/school meals = eat them to defeat them
- nutrition signalling
- taxing bad foods such as the sugar tax
- subsidising good foods e.g. health start vouchers
- remove takeaways
- remove advertising
- working with industry
- cooking lessons
what do cooking lessons do
- building confidence
- establishing social norms
- giving information on food access
- ensuring adequate equipment
- building community links and support
- change in the home - committing to the next step = can buy a bag at the end of the lesson and cook it.
what does cooking at home lead to
- pride
- confidence
- praise
- better diet
these lead to
- better mental health
- better health
- financial savings
- sense of control
- providing for your family
Why is bags of taste successful
- choose delicious food
- save money
- shop in the same places
- eat the same sorts of foods
