Health Case Study: Food, Health And Wellbeing

Introduction
This assessment is an in-depth investigation on a title in which I have chosen. The title I have discovered to be of particular interest to me is Food, Health and Wellbeing. The objective of this report is to identify the relevance between my course, my career develpoment and my personal development. By the end of this assignment I hope to have learned how to research a topic, how to references sources I used, how to create a table of contents and how a word document should be structured. I have outlined what overall good health is and how to achieve good healt a disease in which I want to foucs on is Asthma.
Terms of Reference
The objective of this case study is to research food, health and wellbeing. I want to discover what
(fyffes.com) Plant based foods attack and destroy viruses, bacteria and cancers. Health is based on the amount of nutrition we provide our bodies. The immune system is our greatest defense against disease. Simple lifestyle tools like positive attitude and plant-based organic food, as well as movement and exercise, strengthen the anatomy. It is best to avoid pre packaged, pre heated, ready made, and ready to heat convenience foods. (Clement)
Fruit and vegetables are better off to be eaten when in season because they are cheaper and because the grower doesn’t use as much chemicals when in season. It is best to know where the food is grown so you can receive the best nutrients and vitamins. Organic food isn’t about saving our planet or about health, it’s about good ingredients that makes good, flavoursome food. Organic foods focus on traditional framing methods which are artificial, chemical and genetically modified (GM) free. (Sweetman and Sweetman
I have also discovered the relationship food has with asthma and how food can help people control their asthma or how it can cause asthma attacks.
The importance of this in my professional and personal development is that as an asthma sufferer I am now knowledgeable about what foods I can eat and which foods I should avoid. If I eat the correct food on a daily basis my health and well being will be improved. I am also aware of the foods which should be served to people in a restaurant as a chef I am responsible if they request a certain dietry/ allergic requirement.
My research has met my expectations in relation to triggers, causes and what happens ones breathing. I did not know about certain foods such as dairy and convienece foods to be problematic.
My recommendations in regards to this topic are to increase the awareness of the good and bad food for asthma sufferers. I strongly believe that the Irish Government should revise our food pyramid and include the daily fluid intake and exercise which everybody, not just asthma sufferers but the whole nation need to do to maintain good health and well