Helping the Elderly Nutritional Concerns

Helping the Elderly Nutritional Concerns

Introduction

Today, the American society is suffering with health related issues as there consumption patterns are inappropriate mainly because of the imbalance in consuming their diets. Elderly individuals in America have consumption patterns, which are unfavorable to the human system. Moreover, the nutritional concerns are on the rise in America because of many various factors out of which one of the factors is excess consumption of iron supplements by elderly, which leads them to face many problems. Iron deficiency is a common feature found in societies all over the world. However, this is not the case in America as research in nutritional sciences showed that many Americans carry three times the excess amount of iron in their body then majority of individuals from other part of the world. The reason behind such circumstances is the western diet that the Americans consume.

Discussion

In recent time, great amount of research work has been posted in relation to various issues in the healthcare. Similar to the fact, health problems have grown because of lack of awareness and inappropriate personal nutritional care. It is found that the causes to such health related problems are many but the paper will discuss mainly the issues relating to nutrition concerns of elderly. Moreover, it is important to discuss how the certain age group could be helped.

It is first important to understand how the excess of iron is achieved by the American elderly. Iron supplements are usually consumed in cases of iron deficiency in the human body, which are usually caused because of increased requirement of iron due to the aging process or mainly because the body is not absorbing the presence of iron. It is important to have a balanced ratio of iron in the human body but the problem arises ...