How Food Choices Impact College Going Students' Health in Urban Settings

Abstract

The food choices we make have an impact on our health. The quality and quantity of food we choose and the type of nutrients present in food all directly impact our health in a good, bad, or sustainable way. The food choices we make throughout the day for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner decides our health in long term. Consumers’ daily food choices have great potential in transforming towards healthier and more sustainable food systems (1,11) food choices have been proposed to further depict how different factors essentially affect healthier and sustainable food choices. Body mass Index ranges from underweight, normal, overweight to obese, and studies results show that people with a higher BMI that is obese and overweight pay more for health care costs. Preservatives are a part of packaged foods to increase their shelf time although their safe intake in safe limit doesn’t harm health immediately excess intake can affect health in the long term and certain chemicals present in food preservatives act as slow poison.