5 Fruit And Vegetables A Day Essay
5 Fruit and Vegetables a day
Introduction
This essay explores public health promotions regarding wellbeing issues. The topic focused in on is diet, obesity and exercise. This is one of the five key areas of public health promotion in the United Kingdom (UK). This topic was chosen after completing a lifestyle self-analysis which showed that eating fruit and vegetables was one of the weaker aspects of the author 's healthy lifestyle. This essay will specifically investigate healthy eating by consuming more fruit and vegetables. It will do this by researching 5 different types of articles and analysing whether health promotion interventions have a positive impact on helping people to change their diet.
Main essay
This essay focuses on the general population and the effect of health promotional interventions on the consumption of fruit and vegetables. This subject was determined by the author as an area of improvement for people that is easy to change and be very beneficial. Improved knowledge on the subject is needed because although it is positively presented, eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day as recommended by the UK government REF is sometimes challenging for various reasons. The reason that each of the five articles used for this essay was chosen is because they are all focused on eating more fruit and vegetables and are all linked to health interventions.
The strategy adopted while conducting the search for information on this subject was to input very specific information into the NELSON search engine. NELSON was used because it has a wide variety of academic journals all in one place that can be easily accessed to provide both a quantitative and qualitative piece of research. The information inputted had to be specific in order to find the correct articles needed. This was learnt when the search input criteria began as 'fruit and vegetables ' producing 101,219 results. Subsequently, more exact wording for each subject article was chosen such as
Introduction
This essay explores public health promotions regarding wellbeing issues. The topic focused in on is diet, obesity and exercise. This is one of the five key areas of public health promotion in the United Kingdom (UK). This topic was chosen after completing a lifestyle self-analysis which showed that eating fruit and vegetables was one of the weaker aspects of the author 's healthy lifestyle. This essay will specifically investigate healthy eating by consuming more fruit and vegetables. It will do this by researching 5 different types of articles and analysing whether health promotion interventions have a positive impact on helping people to change their diet.
Main essay
This essay focuses on the general population and the effect of health promotional interventions on the consumption of fruit and vegetables. This subject was determined by the author as an area of improvement for people that is easy to change and be very beneficial. Improved knowledge on the subject is needed because although it is positively presented, eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day as recommended by the UK government REF is sometimes challenging for various reasons. The reason that each of the five articles used for this essay was chosen is because they are all focused on eating more fruit and vegetables and are all linked to health interventions.
The strategy adopted while conducting the search for information on this subject was to input very specific information into the NELSON search engine. NELSON was used because it has a wide variety of academic journals all in one place that can be easily accessed to provide both a quantitative and qualitative piece of research. The information inputted had to be specific in order to find the correct articles needed. This was learnt when the search input criteria began as 'fruit and vegetables ' producing 101,219 results. Subsequently, more exact wording for each subject article was chosen such as
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