To be Healthiest and Grow Gracefully: Understand What to eat for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

 

Do you know that our body gives signal? We need to listen to those signal to understand the  body ,which undergoes through a 24-hour cycle of physical, mental, and behavior changes. With the more knowledge available on social media, people get more confused, that’s what happening in today’s time. As modern society poses many challenges to our health and well-being due to reasons like shift-duty, sleep deprivation and jet lag, that disrupt our body clock. It is now becoming clear that circadian disruption is increasing the incidence and severity of many diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

CAMP HIGHLIGHTS: We have conducted a nutritional awareness camp for the senior citizen and tried to find out their knowledge through interview, goggle form developed and biochemical tests like CBC, TSH, CHOLESTEROL, RBC, Height, Weight were conducted. Since senior citizens participated were very few (sample size 16), Personal Interview-was conducted and one to one counseling was given to the participants in terms of their test conducted and also their doubts were taken into consideration.

TOOLS USED: Nutrition Education Models of  a balanced diet & 4 Pillars of Diabetes management 

ANALYSIS:

• Our finding says all diabetics were not talking fruit servings in their diet

• 46.7% were Female whereas 53.3% were Males 
  

• The graph on right shows BMI 

•  Here 42% people having  No- co morbidity, 28.6% were Hypertensive, 21.4% were Diabetic, 14. % are dealing with Cholesterol Problems and  Facing Obesity & Cardiac  comprises 7.1% Patients.

CITICAL VIEW: First and foremost thing is one should made aware about the disease and how it occurs. We all know that eating fresh fruits and vegetables is good for our health. But people who are diabetic may avoid fruit due to its high sugar content. But new research investigates the health benefits of fresh fruit consumption among people with diabetes. Fruit consumption lowered risk of complications in people with diabetes. It is being observed eating more protein at breakfast or lunchtime could help older people maintain muscle mass with advancing age but most people eat proteins fairly unevenly throughout the day, that has been found out by new research (University of Birmingham). As we all know with increasing age they become more susceptible to disease. Eating a diet with a higher amount of plant protein may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the University of Eastern Finland. While plant protein may provide a protective role, meat protein was shown to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Those who are on  watching Weight, globally need  only be careful about what to eat but also about the timing of the food intake as circadian cycle. A more balanced protein intake can reduce age-related muscle loss. The potential of Chrono-nutrition in preventing muscle aging are as follows:

1. adequate timing or distribution of protein intake in a day needs consideration

2. Reset the peripheral clock to get beneficial effect of scheduled controlled feeding  

The study titled, Association of night eating habits with metabolic syndrome and its components: a longitudinal study, night snacking was associated with raised blood cholesterol in both men and women. The researchers also found that snacking at night was associated with metabolic syndrome. Which comprises of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and raised blood cholesterol. (Japanese researcher, J Yoshida and colleagues from Department of Public Health, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical)

4 pillars of Diabetes management

CONCLUSION: Further studies are warranted to gain a clearer understanding of the mechanism underlying the interaction between circadian clock disturbance and age-related muscle dysfunction. Today as researcher, it is being observed that needs such more nutritional awareness camp for the senior citizen all over the world. our results show that it’s not true, that a one-size-fits-all.

Customize guideline for protein intake isn't appropriate for senior age groups. Simply saying older people should eat more protein isn't really enough either. We need a more sophisticated and individualized approach that can help people understand, when and how much protein to consume to support muscle mass.

REFERENCE:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200316104012.htm

Https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190426/Circadian-rhythm-plays-a-part-in-weight-loss.aspx

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323866

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/316857

BY:

Ushakiran Sisodia R.D Msc Gold medallist, PGDBM ,CDE; A.N Radha winner (Best Practicing dietician three consecutive years )

Sanjana Rao M.sc Dietetics and applied nutrition (MNT)

Shruti Nair M.sc Dietetics and applied nutrition (Pediatric)

COURTESY:

Nutritional Education to elderly population of society, Senior Citizens (Thacker’s Apartment found out the following statistics a health camp. Juhu)