Community

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 Community nutrition incorporates the study of nutrition and the promotion of good health through food and nutrient intake in populations. This article will consider aspects of community nutrition relating to dietary goals and recommendations for populations; methods of assessing diet in population groups; and promoting healthy eating at the community level.

Community nutrition (public health nutrition) requires a population approach. The community rather than the individual is the focus of interest. This area of nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health and the primary prevention of diet-related illness. The emphasis is on maintenance of health in the whole population, although it will also include working with high-risk groups and other subgroups within the population. Community nutrition includes nutritional surveillance; epidemiological studies of diet; and also the development, implementation, and evaluation of dietary recommendations and goals. A community may be any group of individuals, for example, the population of a town or country, or the residents of an old people's home.






Community nutrition has been defined as the group of activities linked to Applied Nutrition within the context of Public Health, whose main goal is to tailor individual and population food patterns according to updated scientific knowledge, in a certain region with a final aim of health promotion...... 




The goal of community nutrition is to educate individuals and groups so that they adopt healthy eating habits. Dieticians and nutritionists work with many other health care professionals in promoting improved community nutrition. Their efforts emphasize a preventive approach in educating individuals in how a change in dietary habits will reduce the risk of illness. Community nutrition focuses on all age groups. The groups targeted range from babies to pregnant women to older adults. For example, a young pregnant woman may not realize how poor eating habits affect her developing fetus or she may be unaware of the importance of breastfeeding. Older adults may lose interest in eating due to loneliness, inability to prepare meals, or a physical condition such as difficulty chewing. Individuals with diabetes may not understand the need to control their blood glucose levels through diet as well as medication... 




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