Volume : 10, Issue : 02, February – 2023

Title:

40.AWARENESS THE PEOPLE OF AL-BAHA REGION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DIET TO PREVENT CHRONIC DISEASES
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Authors :

Dr. Mohammed Yaanallah Mohammed Alghamdi, Sameer Mushabab Alshahrani, Muslah Break Kalaf Alshomrani , Fayez Saad Mohammed Alghamdi, Majed Ahmad Mosaed Alzahrani, Saleh Ali Hamed Alqarni.

Abstract :

A healthy lifestyle includes a number of healthy choices, including choosing a balanced diet, It also includes a healthy eating plan that helps control weight by eating a variety of foods.
Nutrition and food consumption have been known in recent years as essential and unique components in maintaining proper health.
A healthy diet helps reduce the formation of chronic diseases and the deterioration of health.
Eating a healthy diet helps prevent chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Healthy eating practices start early – breastfeeding promotes healthy growth and improves cognitive development, and may have longer- term health benefits such as reducing the risk of being overweight or obese and developing chronic diseases later in life.
Energy intake (calories) should be balanced with energy intake. In order to avoid unhealthy weight gain, the total percentage of fats should not exceed 30% of the total energy intake, the percentage of the saturated fats eaten should be less than 10% of the total energy intake, and the percentage of the trans fats eaten should be less than 1% of the total energy intake. Total energy intake, with a shift in fat consumption away from saturated fats and trans fats to unsaturated fats, and toward the goal of eliminating industrially produced trans fats.
Limiting free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake is suggested to continue reducing them to less than 5% of total energy intake to achieve additional health benefits.
Keeping salt intake to less than 5g per day (equivalent to a sodium intake of less than 2g per day) helps prevent high blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke in the adult population.
A calorie is a unit of energy, usually used to measure the energy content of foods and beverages; Eating more calories than the body consumes leads to weight gain.
must be eat healthy foods that contain calories suitable for the body, and determine the amount of calories according to body weight, height, age, gender, and body activity, A female may need to eat around 2,000 calories a day, and she needs 1,500 calories to lose 450 grams of weight per week, A man needs 2,500 calories per day, and he needs 2,000 calories to lose 450 grams of weight per week.
For a healthy diet, you should limit the following:
• Saturated fats, added sugars, and sodium.
• Consume less than 10% of your daily calories from added sugars.
• Consuming less than 10% of calories per day from saturated fats.
• Consuming less than 2300 mg of sodium per day.
Finally, visiting a specialist doctor available in Al-Baha region hospitals can lead to improving the quality of the diet and making a plan to calculate the calories needed by the body.

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