Health_And_Diet_Now_Versus_50_Years_Ago

Health And Diet Now Versus 50 Years Ago Over the course of evolution human beings adapted gradually to a wide range of naturally occurring foods. Due to advances in technology and disease the intake and the way in which we think of these foods has changed dramatically. Diet and nutrition research goes on in almost every medical school, university, and pharmaceutical laboratory throughout the world. Thus, the knowledge of how to prevent illness and maintain health through nutrition grows every year. Due to the rapid rise in chronic illness in recent decades, the focus of nutrition research has shifted from eliminating nutritional deficiency resulting from undernutrition to dealing with chronic diseases caused by nutritional excess or “overnutrition”. The 1950’s marked the beginning of making comparisons and linking diet and chronic diseases. A persons diet from the 1950s contrasts greatly to that of someone’s today due to economic, technological, and disease related changes. Because the changes in the dietary patterns of the more technological developed countries, such as the United States, have been so dramatic and rapid, the people consuming these affluent diets have had little time to adapt biologically to the types an quantities of food available to them today. Thus, when comparing health of the people from 50 years diet, calories, today, day, average, woman, through, technology, about, 50, years, technological, research, health, food, changes, change, 1950’s, thus, society, small, similar, shopping, provide, one, nutritional, nutrition, intake, generation, foods, due, difference, chronic, children, allow, ago