NUTRITIONAL SURVEY IN DIFFERENT AREAS
OF GILGIT BALTISTAN
One of the
basic need of every human being is health. As a quote goes here that:
“ It is the health that is real wealth”
You cannot
enjoy the wealth if you are not in your real health.
According to
WHO, health can be defined as:
“The state of being physically, mentally and
social well being and not merely in the absence of any disease”
Gilgit Baltistan is the area where most of the people are enjoying their organic life styles but this area is in lack of facilities to ensure their health when they get ill and many other problems occur.
Like in GB
there are about half of the population which are suffering from many
nutritional diagnosis and problems like mul-nutrition is one of the burning
issue. As there is majority of the population which are considered as mul
nourished because these people don’t have any idea about what to eat, how to
eat and when to eat the food so that they can cope the problem of their
malnourishment. Even the health sectors of this place do not have the a well
improved nutrition section. That’s why the nutrition counselling in this area
are very low.
In order to
cope this situation there must be a separate enhance nutritional department in
the health sectors so that the basic nutritional education is given to each and
every person of this region and ultimately the person itself can choose their
meals wisely. It may reduced the mul nutrition to some extent.
Keeping in view of all these miserable conditions a group of students from nutrition department of karakoram international university done a survey under the supervision of Dr.Zubair Hussain professor of KIU in order to check the nutritional status of Gilgit Baltistan.
Our targeted
areas are Nagaral, Jutial, Khomer, Kashrote, Danyore, Barmas, Jalalabad, Nomal,
and some other areas of GB.
In these
areas we get a statistical data on various labels including the health
condition, most prevailing disease in GB and the nutritional status of the
people that they are well nourished or mul-nourished.
The various
results on major nutritional problems that we get after our survey are:
Our main
variable are obesity, its causes and prevalence in these areas. But like
obesity there are many other nutrition related problems that are prevailing day
by day that must need to be cope. This chart shows that obesity are in alarming
situations. Nomal region is facing the high density of obese people than
khomer, than danyore and than the main city of GB. The main causes can may be
the sedentary life style, diet imbalances and the physical activity.
PREVALANCE
OF OBESITY IN NAGARAL AREA
This area is also known as blue area Nagaral because in
winters this is one of the most coldest areas of GB. In this area of Gilgit
Baltistan majority of the families are middle class and some are upper class
and a very few families are lower class. But due Islamic
system of zakat these lower class families did not face any difficulty to meet
their basic needs.
According to survey nutritional status of this area is
considered as the alarming one in which out of 100 individuals 90% are obese, 8% are UNDER WEIGHT and other
2% are in their normal weight. As the people of this area are majorly
consuming carbohydrate rich sources (rice, wheat products) and this area have a
great interest towards junk food including pizzas, shawarma etc. however, they
are having vegetables, legumes twice in a week. Due to this non seriousness
towards their dietary patterns most of the people are suffering from obesity.
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| Nagaral peak |
PREVALANCE
OF OBESITY IN JUTIAL AREA
According to
the survey in this area obesity is prevailing and the outcomes are enormous
that majority are facing high blood pressure and depression problems. The
figures are same as in Nagaral because the people in this area have the same
dietary patterns.
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| Jutial, Gilgit |
PREVALANCE
OF OBESITY IN JALALABAD AREA
Jalalabad is the area where the lifestyle of people are highly active so
these people
can easily burn their calories that they are in taking regularly. And the
dietary patterns of these people are majorly natural and the organic goods.
They are having the vegetables, fruits, milk, ghee, corn and wheat that they
produced on their own. Due to this organic lifestyle majority of the people in
these areas are having their normal body weight and obesity can be considered
as the negligible diagnosis here.
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| Jalalabad view point |
OTHER
AREAS OF GB
In average
other areas of GB including nomal, khomer, danyore, kashrote, barmas and many
other areas are suffering from this issue and it is rapidly increasing throughout
the region. If this problem is not considered seriously than it may has a huge
impact on our community.
RESULTS
THE MAIN
RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY IS THAT ALTHOUGH THESE MAIN AREAS OF GB ARE NOT FACING
ANY PROBLEMS TO MEET THEIR NEEDS BUT THESE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT
THEIR SELECTIONS. NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION IN GB ARE ABOUT 0%. PEOPLE SELECT THEIR MEALS
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES WITHOUT HAVING ANY INT- REST THAT WHAT ARE THE EFFECT OF
THESES FOODS IN THEIR BODY AND EITHER THSES FOODS ARE COMPLETING THEIR DAILY
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OR NOT. THE RESULTS OF IMPROPER DIET PATTERENS ARE:
o IMPROPER DIET
As improper
dietary patterns has a huge impact in a persons nutritional status. A good diet
can prevent a person from many health issues however, a bad diet can may lead
to many chronic diseases like hypertension, blood pressure, diabetes, obesity,
stroke etc.
In addition
to improper diet a person life style habits can may also impact its nutritional
status. A person must need to keep the balance in its calories intake and the
calories burns through exercise and daily activities. otherwise, it may leads
to mul nourishment of a person. like if a person calorie intakes are more than
it burns than it may lead to obesity. The activity index of the people of
Gilgit Baltistan are:
o PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
PEOPLE DO
NOT HAVE ANY IDEA THAT EITHER THEY ARE GOING TOWARDS OBESITY OR UNDER
NOURISHMENT. ONE OF THESE ISSUES ARE OBESITY AND LIKE OBESITY THERE ARE MANY
OTHER NUTRITIONAL PROBLEMS ARE PREVAILING THAT MUST NEED TO BE NOTICED AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE.
note: This data is collected from the main city areas of GB however the rural areas of GB are still facing severe under nourishment.
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