Article One Review
Amongst the key indicators of development in a given society are the health of the special groups in the society such as the adolescents and the pregnant mothers who are vulnerable to many health-threatening risks. Therefore, a good health and physical activeness, for instance, are vital for the growth and development of the children and adolescents. The article, the food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children and Young People 9Aged 2-18 Years), gives vital information to families and the young generations on how to live a healthy life through proper dietary practices (Ministry of Health 2012). Some key themes addressed in this article are the key factors that influence dietary choices of the young people as family, environment, and gender among the others, the impact of environmental factors on food choices, physical activity and outlines meal patterns for children and adolescents (Ministry of Health 13).
WHO lists the adolescent period as the age bracket vulnerable to many health challenges? I find the article very key in providing notes to aid a 16-year boy happens to be in this bracket and the information is key towards her development into puberty. Also, the article elucidates updated
Evidence-based information and technical information for health care providers in this field (Ministry of Health 2012).
Furthermore, the article is very relevant in the field of Nutrition studies since nutrition is at the center of the battalion trying to fight the growing intensity of Non-communicable conditions in the 21st Century among young individuals (Ministry of Health 99). Therefore, the choice of the article is well informed as it provides concepts that help address population health issues in the society. For instance, it is based on health advocacy provisions and also seeks to prevent diet-related chronic conditions such as cancers and obesity.
Article Two Review
The article outlines some measures geared towards boosting the adolescent nutrition status. In order to grow and develop optimally, adequate dietary intake is very paramount in the adolescents’ growth. The article reviewed some possible ways on how to supplement nutrients in the expectant adolescences and the effectiveness of the suggested interventions. For instance, the review suggested that supplementing adolescents with micronutrients contributes significantly towards decreasing the prevalence of anemia. School going children were targeted and the outcomes proved positive as compared to the community-based supplementation programs (Salam and Rihanna et al. 39).
Furthermore, the review of this article included interventions to improve the nutritional status of the expectant adolescents. The outcomes suggested that the neonatal birth weight improved considerably while the LBW lowered as recorded by (Salam and Rihanna et al. 33). However, the studies were majorly focused on the adolescent females since at this stage, their nutrition status is very key to improving the health status of the women. Nevertheless, this essay finds the conclusions in this article very key in forming the basis for future research into measures of improving the nutritional status of the adolescent boys at the reproductive age of 16 years. Dietary recommendations for the adolescent boys in the said age bracket can be based on the findings from the research documented in this article.
The choice of the article was significantly orchestrated as the findings documented in the article echoes the Sustainable Development Goals in reducing the burden of Non-Communicable Diseases. In fact, the review proposed some ways in which nutrition can be promoted while reducing obese conditions, eventually reducing the Body Mass Index considerably (Salam and Rihanna et al. 39). Some empirical evidence by (Salam and Rihanna et al. (34) suggests that once the adolescent develops obesity, it might be difficult to reverse the situation in future hence the need to strengthen measures geared towards primary prevention.
Article Three Review
The article presents a systematic analysis of the evidence-based nutrition initiatives for the adolescents. Actually, people at the adolescent stage are at a very critical stage in their life cycle and hence require adequate nutrition and physical activity for growth and development as agued by (Lassi and Zohra et al. 35). The article reviews the essence of evidence-based nutritional interventions for the adolescents in the wake of many non-communicable diseases that are targeting members of in this age bracket. Therefore, the essay is of the position statement in support of the article that countries should design cost-effective and evidence-based interventions seeking to improve the nutrition status of the adolescents.
According to the United Nations report, most of the adolescent populations are brought in economic hardships that predispose them to many health problems ranging from poor dietary options (Lassi and Zohra et al. 39). Out of the total 7.3 billion people gracing the planet, 1.8 billion range b between the age of ten to twenty-four and most of them come from marginalized regions of the world. The adolescent youths aged sixteen falls in this bracket and this shows the significance of the choice of this article in studying nutrition amongst groups. Issues of undernutrition, violence and poor reproductive health are well underlined in the article.
Furthermore, empirical research by Lassi and Zohra et al. (43) documents the lameness in the efforts addressing the adolescent nutritional status. Therefore, the choice of this article is was motivated by the need to establish a considerable research towards compelling the health policymakers to prioritize adolescent nutrition issues when drafting health bills. Today, the adolescents are living in obesogenic settings. This explains the increasing rate of obese cases among the adolescents in the world today.
Article Four Review
The article majorly focused on some of the primary ways of preventing obesity and associated eating discords among the adolescents which have significantly become prevalent in this age group over the recent years globally. Also, there are growing whispers that efforts to control obesity eventually result in eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa (the tendency not to eat) in the quest to cut on the body weight (Golden and Neville et al. 2016). Therefore, the article provides evidence-based tools for pediatricians to aid in mapping out the behaviors that predispose one to both conditions and proposes some primary prevention initiatives to be undertaken.
The need to address obese issues and Eating Disorders among our adolescents is more than urgent due to its increasing prevalence pointing to the United States and the rest of the world. In fact, some studies by Golden and Neville et al. (2016) have established a connection between obese development during the adolescence stage and the medical morbidity in the later adulthood stage. Hence, the article’s purposed to assess the relationship between efforts geared towards preventing obesity and development of Eating Disorders in the long run. In support of the same, the choice of the article on the essay is relevant in support of the fact that there is a thin line between obesity prevention and development of Eating Disorders among the adolescents by providing evidence-informed tools of analyzing these two conditions. Furthermore, the article looked at dieting as a major cause of increased weight gain and binge eating disorder in both boys and girls (Golden and Neville et al. 2016). Essentially, this article explains the importance of the article in addressing the nutrition status of a sixteen-year-old boy who is obese.
Article Five Review
The article is inclined towards the effects of socioeconomic factors and the parameters that influence food choices. For instance, children coming from socio-economically disadvantaged regions are vulnerable to consumption of poor diets, fewer fruits and green vegetables in particular. There is limited research on the socio-economically-associated disparities in the adolescents’ diet as (Zarnowiecki and Dorota et al. 275) pointed out. Thus, the article tries to fill in this gap by coining some empirical evidence from various researched information.
A connection between marginalization in relations to poor health has been a public health issue for quite some time now. Poor socio-economic conditions predispose the adolescents to poor nutritional choices, lowers their ability to involve in physical activities and raises the risk for cardiovascular diseases as such (Zarnowiecki and Dorota et al. 280). The dietary behaviors during this development stage may impact negatively later in their adult stage and this is what forms an important target population for upraising health behavior. Therefore, the choice of the article is very paramount in trying to establish how the social-economic conditions influence the parameters for adolescents’ dietary choices.
In addition, the male adolescents of the age sixteen are at a very active stage and therefore require a well-balanced diet. It becomes very difficult for such young individuals to make dietary choices in poor conditions and hence social vices are increased in the society due to increased cases of truancy in search of food. Besides the socio-economic factors, environmental factors also take course. For instance, (Zarnowiecki and Dorota et al. (275) argued that adolescents may tend to consume sugary beverages and even alcoholic drinks when they see their age mates doing the same.