Mrs. Miley's Dietary Patterns

If Mrs Miley’s dietary pattern continues for a period of time, it can bring about many health problems. Firstly, as Mrs Miley’s BMI already puts her in the obesity range, she should be controlling her diet by having healthier food choices such as by including more fruits and vegetables, calcium, grains, and protein in her diet.(Segal & Kemp, 2015)

However as seen from her food intake table, there is no consumption of fruits and vegetables at all. She could have consumed a few pieces of vegetables from her mutton briyani or a piece of lettuce from her McSpicy Double, but the amount is insignificant. The lack of vegetables in her diet can result in insufficient dietary fibre intake, resulting in problems like constipation and hemorrhoids.
Consumption of such foods is detrimental to one’s health as it can result in hypertension or diabetes. Hypertension is related to high sodium intake and many fast food chains season their foods with a lot of salt. As seen from her food chart, we can tell that Mrs Miley has a high consumption of fast food. She should cut down on these food items that are rich in sodium as hypertension can further lead to stroke. Diabetes is related to high intake of sugar, and looking at Mrs Miley’s diet, we would observe that she also consumes many foods rich in sugar. Such as the chocolate coated doughnut, bubble milk tea and soft drink
Making her more prone to contracting osteoporosis due to bones thinning. (National Institute of Health., 2013). With her high intake of sodium, she would tend to urinate more often. This can then result in calcium being lost through urination.

Mrs Miley is consuming foods that are high in cholesterol and this can cause the arteries to be narrowed and hardened, and thus preventing sufficient oxygen to travel throughout the body. Plaque can also cause angina. Angina is pain of the chest that occurs when the insufficient oxygen travels to the heart. High cholesterol is also highly dangerous, since no symptoms of it can be observed until the damage occurs. (Larson N, 2010) This puts the elderly in even more danger since most elderly live alone and might not be able to get help in time if such a health problem suddenly occurs.

Mrs Miley’s diet is also high in carbohydrates and according to the Education Portal (n.d.), this can lead to dental problems like dental caries or health problems like type 2 diabetes. In this case where a high calorie diet is accompanied with high carbohydrate intake, two conditions can happen. Firstly, the body might not be able to create enough insulin. Secondly, the body might not be able to respond to the hormone. Sugar molecules hence won’t be able to reach body cells to generate energy for the body, but instead stay in the bloodstream, leading to type two