The Role Of Nutrition In Reducing Obesity Among People In Saudi Arabia

Subject Area of the Research Topic along with the Relevance of the Research Study

Title: The Role of Nutrition in Reducing Obesity among People in Saudi Arabia

Describe the nature of the research topic

This research topic stresses two factors such as nutrition and health of an individual whose relationship is evaluated by analyzing the role of nutrition in the diet of a person. An individual gives more priority to his health as no one wants to compromise with the health as nothing is more important than the health of a person. Taking counselling on involving nutrition in a daily diet is important as it helps an individual in preventing himself from various diseases (Navarrete-Muñoz and et.al., 2017). Nowadays young generation is prone to severe diseases like heart attack due to increased cholesterol in the body. Eating oily food will result into increasing levels of the bad cholesterol and decreasing good cholesterol. Nutritious advice is fruitful for the people in improving their health. The shape of the body depends on the eating habits and lifestyles maintained by a person as an individual eat healthy food, then they secure their health for forever without building unnecessary belly fat. Taste is another influential factor in restraining people in adopting healthy diets as people give more preference to their taste rather than improving their shape of the body. People think that healthy food has no taste, is the biggest myth that increases resistance among the people in choosing healthy lifestyle over the misbalanced lifestyle of a person which is full of junk foods (Mayhew and et.al., 2016). Adopting healthy lifestyle means eliminating all junky foods, high-calorie foods, and sweets that increase the weight of a person. Protein is regarded as the important nutrient that strengthen the muscle protein an individual. Nutritionists suggest spinach, yogurt, garlic and ginger to be included in the diet of a person which increase the white blood cells which help in fighting against the diseases by boosting the immunity of a person.

Subject area of the research topic along with the relevance of the research study

This research stresses on an important issue of the current society that is obesity as due to careless attitude of a person towards their health increases the burden of obesity which in, turn, increases several risks of a heart attack due to increasing level of cholesterol in the blood level of a Person. Results of this research promote the social awareness among the society to focus more on their health. Protection ways from all these risks have been explained in a research (Wynendaele, Verbeke, Janssens and De Spiegeleer, 2016). Nutrition is a specialization that involves the study of minerals, fibre, protein, carbohydrates that help in improving the normal diet of an individual. Nutrition is a science that involves the study of the metabolism. Body catabolism is held responsible for increasing or decreasing the weight of an individual as this shows the breaking of food in the body of an individual. Doctors and nutritionists recommended in eating slowly to digest the food properly as this directly affect the metabolism of a person (Diet and et.al., 2016). Another aspect is anabolism which involves creating of cells and the body tissues as a mixture of both catabolism and anabolism form the metabolism of a person. Boosting the level of metabolism in the body is beneficial for the users that help in extracting bad toxins from the body.

Importance of Research Question

            In this research, the culture of the Saudi Arabia has been explained in the research which reveals that majority of people in this country are obese. Higher rates of obesity in the nation raise a big question on the health facilities offered by the country for their citizens (Wildman ed., 2016). Rules and regulations of the country also matter in decreasing this issue as prohibition is necessary on reducing junk food as due to heavy consumption of junk food, the ratio of obesity has increased from one period to another.

            Myth in the society gets resolved by not adopting a healthy lifestyle as most of the people think that there is no taste in the healthy food.  There are two phases that exist in the world such as obesity and malnutrition. Majority of people in the whole world are starving due to poverty which results into malnutrition as they can’t get adequate nutrition in a day and on the other hand obesity exists in the major parts of the world (Prentice and et. al., 2017). Basic difference among both these situations is due to nutrition in the body of individuals. In the case of obese person there is lack of good nutrition and ample of bad nutrition. On the contrary, mal-nutritious people have lack of nutrition as compared to the normal calories required by a person per day.

Importance of research question

Balance diet plays a significant role in today’s environment as this is a single way to stay away from the occurrence of severe diseases like heart attack, thyroid, sugar, and diabetes. Obese persons will likely to have these diseases which need to be avoided by an entity. Awareness has increased among the people through this research as people come to know about the positive aspects of a proper diet. Dietician suggests diets to an individual according to their daily routine to decrease the resistance among the people. Common perspectives about dieting have changed. With this research as the majority of people think dieting means skipping food which results in increasing obesity (Truswell, ed., 2017). A study reveals that skipping any meal in a day increases starvation in an individual. Doctors and diet counselors recommend in eating three meals in a day by eating the right food at right time as skipping food is not the solution in meeting all the problems. The importance of this research depends on the severity of the research issue. Obesity is a serious issue that spreads like a wind in all across the world in all the age groups. Due to wrong habits of eating children’s in the age group of 5-10 years old are mostly prone to these diseases.

            Health officials declare obesity as epidemics that affect major parts of the society ranging from infant to old age people as all the society members are affected by this disease. With the increasing trend of technology, people do the less physical activity as they can do. All their daily routine work through technology and various devices (Riley, Bowen,  Krause, Jones and Stonehouse, 2016). Through Electronic shopping modes, people get used to in purchasing all the household and grocery items through e-commerce sites that decreases the trend of purchasing the goods by visiting the retail store. The existence of the traditional shops is essential that forces a person to walk daily to reduce their body fat. When people remain in their home for a long time and not walk and roam around the places, then this increases the severe problem of muscle congestion. Increasing body fat firstly targets leg area as due to lack of walking all fats get stored in the leg muscles. The economic structure of Saudi Arabia is essential in getting advantages by reducing the risk of obesity and all other kinds of diseases associated with the obesity (Isolauri, Sherman and Walker, eds., 2017).

Worth of the Research Topic

Worth of the research topic

This research topic helps in redefining all the policies and regulations framed by the country officials in getting rid of this problem. Accumulation of fat in various body parts of individuals impairs the health of a person. The root cause of all the diseases is fat as people are not taking care of their health. People eat tasty food which is full of calories that store higher calories in the body of a person. As per the results of the world health organization, the trend of obesity has increased from the period of 1980 (Saudi Arabia struggles with the burden of obesity, 2010). In 2014, total obese people in the entire world are more than 1. Billion which includes most of the people belong to the age group of 18 years or older people. An aim of this research is to decrease the obesity ratio by presenting the dangerous future in front of all the people to make them aware about their present health. Taking precautions by an individual currently will help in improving their health in the future. It says that ‘An apple a day keeps a doctor away’ is itself shows the importance of healthy food to safeguard people from all the viral in the external environment. Due to unhealthy weather, an individual gets exposed to dust that increases the chances of affecting the health of a person with the risk of severe diseases.

Identify gaps, problems and unresolved issues

Obesity is an unresolved issue that is affecting the health of several people in Saudi Arabia as one out of three people in the families of the country is affected by this risk. Deficiency in the legal structure of Saudi Arabia in explained with the help of this research which results in the execution of improved regulations in the place of old regulations. This is to improve the position of the nation in the world regarding health and safety measures taken by the country (Hammad, Berry and Knafl, 2016). Cultural issues of the country get resolved in this research. For getting rid of this problem by awaking people about the significance of the use of adequate nutrition in the daily diet of an entity.

What is the problem

The basic problem individuals face is that they are approaching artificial ways in eliminating their body fat through surgeries. By adopting this method several side effects of the same affect the health of an individual (Khoja and et. al., 2016). To overcome this issue, role of the nutrition is explained to all the citizens of the country in losing their weight by using natural and healthy ways. Taking diet sessions from the nutrition’s, a person gets the perfect schedule of eating the right food at the right time which helps in decreasing or increasing the weight of a person. In today’s busy schedule people eat junk food and ready to eat food as the majority of their time is spent in an office or in travelling (Alwin Robert and et. al., 2017). But eating junk food regularly will affect their health as their digestion gets affected which will not digest the home’s food. Diet counselling is essential to stay in shape as taking medicines for reducing weight and going gym is to the resolution of this problem.

Is problem of current interests

Health advisors have declared obesity as a curse in the life of children as future of the country gets affected with the increasing obesity. Body mass index is a measure that helps in deciding the increasing or decreasing the risk of obesity among children’s. It has determined that children have higher BMI of 95 or more is considered as obese. Fat in the body stored in the stomach slowly creates cells which form belly fat that creates lots of problems (Hammad and Berry, 2016). Obesity in a child is occurring due to genetic problems and hereditary as the family backgrounds. Eating habits develop in the child due to their parents as a child imitates his parents. So this is essential that the parents of a child stay heath that inspires his child in staying healthy in avoiding all dangerous health issues.

Why is this question important

The department of health and human services has researched on this issue and has revealed that adolescent has suffered from this issue in which ratio between boys and girls is separately categorized (Alshahrani and Chandramohan, 2017). This study suggests that 32% of girls and 52% of boys are prone to this disease which keeps on increasing with the wrong eating habits of all the children. The rigid mentality is to be changed by alerting people by increasing seriousness towards the health of an individual (Al-Khaldi, 2016). The existence of obesity is acted like a black spot in the lives of an individual which decreases the risk of diseases. The involvement of unhealthy food is higher in the life of children’s such as noodles, pasta, salty and oily snacks, pizza, burgers. These foods take 3-4 days in digesting as the digestive systems of the children is not strong enough to digest all junk foods eaten by the children. By these convenience foods acidity is created in the stomach which increases stomach burning, constipation (Azzeh and et.al., 2017). Bowel disorder is common among children due to improper digestion which decreases the sleep count in children. Bad health of children increases the risk of other factors such as loss of health, lack of sleep, improper digestion, reduction of white blood cells and platelet count in the body.

What arouses interests in this topic

Nutrition is regarded as the hidden medicine that heals all the problems of an individual as daily routine food has all the nutrients but better utilization of all this nutritionist gets increases in the diet prescribed by the counsellors. An individual comes to know about the secrets of all the food nutritionist that increases strength in their body. Importance of nutrition gets induces with the results of this research in which focus of the health advisor lies on prescribing all the healthy food to a person (Aljaaly, 2016). All the foods that create high calories are eliminated from the daily routine lifestyle of a person such as replacing milk with soya milk, replacing cottage cheese with tofu. These health options can be used by a person without hesitating as every healthy food is not boring. Saudi Arabia is mostly known for their strict rules and regulations related to the protection of women as in his country women wear Hijab that signifies their cultural regulations. A burden of obesity in this country is higher as 70% of the citizens of this nation are obese (Alhraiwil and Jradi, 2016). This fact about the country is not known to all the people has been explained in this study with facts and figures about the issue.

The research models have developed on the research issue of the current study that is evaluating the role of nutrition in losing the weight of an individual (Al Ahmari and et.al., 2017). His model has two components such as dependent as well as independent variable.

Independent variable is nutrition and dependent variable is losing weight of an individual

Nutrition has two factors such as good nutrition or bad nutrition and losing weight of an individual depends on the two factors such as diet and exercise.

Independent variable is Nutrition                       Dependent variable is Losing weight Good Nutrition Cucumber Tomatoes Asparagus                                                                         Avocado Soya Milk Tofu Soya chunks Water Broccoli Roasted black chickpea                                            Exercise +    Diet Bad Nutrition Refined Flour Sugar Cheese Processed cheese Cottage cheese Oil

• Explain the concept of nutrition?
• In what way nutrition contributes in losing weight of individual in Saudi Arabia?
• What is the impact of nutrition in reducing obesity among people in Saudi Arabia?
• Recommend some strategies to overcome the problem of obesity in Saudi Arabia.

• To determine the concept of nutrition
• To identify the contribution of nutrition in losing weight of individual in Saudi Arabia
• To analyse the impact of nutrition in reducing obesity among people in Saudi Arabia
• Suggest some strategies to overcome the problem of obesity in Saudi Arabia

There is no need of developing in this kind of research as this research type is exploratory research type. In this type of research, the problem has not evaluated properly as this shows the lack of research which increases the severity of the issue in absence of executing an appropriate research tool to resolve all the issues (Roumans and et.al., 2017). Obesity is that issue which is spreading in all major parts of the world that needs to be stopped in protecting the future generations of the society. In this research, both aspects have not been analyzed such as an issue of the problem that is obesity and its resolution in the firm of nutrition.  

It includes the scope and barriers faced by a researcher in collecting evidence for concluding a research. In distributing questionnaires among all the citizens of the Saudi Arabia, the researcher faces difficulty in talking with the obese women as according to the culture of the Saudi Arabia, men are not permitted to talk with another woman as the safety of women is an important factor in this country (Sieber, 2018). The researcher chooses the long way of communicating with the women by convincing one of the male members of the family to interact with the women in their family which requires more time to spend in collecting data for the research (Augustin and et.al., 2016). Collecting data from doctors and dieticians is not an easy task as the researcher has to consult 30 doctors for evaluating all the relevant and accurate data by consulting with the doctors. All the doctors have different appointment which wastes a lot of time. If the research to get invests on more important tasks in getting the desired results within a short span of time (Dietz and et.al., 2016). Resistance issue is another biggest restrictive factor in the data collection as obese people are not ready to answer the questions of the surveyor as they can’t face the reality that they are obese as their BMI level is higher than 95.    

It is important to continue this research as it helps in introducing innovative and creative practices comes into existence to overcome the current issue (Nasrah and et.al., 2016). This research focuses on two factors such as dependent variable as well as the independent variable of the research study. The independent variable of the current research is nutrition as inclusion or exclusion of nutrition from the daily diet of an individual will directly affect the weight of a person’s inclusion of nutrition is important but its utilization is also important as using good nutrients in a food is essential by eliminating all bad nutrients in the form of junk food that spoils the existing digestion of an individual (Fitzpatrick and et.al., 2016). The advice on medical plays an integral role as this helps in strengthening all the resolutions of this study in convincing all the people in the Saudi Arabia. Obese people in the Saudi Arabia are desperate to get rid of all the problems faced by them by suggesting adequate nutrition in their life.  

Literature review

Determine the concept of nutrition

According to the study of Jacobs, Gross and Tapsell, (2009) which observes that nutrition is one of the important factors to be included in the diet of an individual. It is difficult for obese people to change the misbalanced diet towards the balanced diet in the form of god nutrients in their food platter by avoiding all the high-calorie food and junk food to stay healthy. Research states that diet plays a significant role in maintaining the weight of an individual by reducing body fat. The habit of an individual has increased towards healthy food slowly and gradually as a person is used to of eating junk foods and ready to eat foods which are fully surrounded by all bad nutrients those stores as a fat in a body. The author focuses on their research on a nice concept of food synergy that includes a study of all the nutrients present in food that help in maintaining the shape of a person. With the existence of biological factors in the food, it helps in improving the health of an individual. A synergistic diet of an individual includes all the super foods that boosted the immunity of a person in fighting against all the diseases takes places in the external environment. There are various super foods suggested by a dietician in a daily diet of an individual that improves the health of a person. An inclusion of tomato and broccoli in a diet helps in staying away from a prostate tumour in a person. Including apples in daily routine helps in protecting a person from the risk of cancer as apples with peels has anti-cancer properties that safeguard an individual from all kinds of cancers.  Risk of heart attack and higher cholesterol problem can be avoided by a person by including whole grains in a normal diet. Whole grain contains lower fat that is cholesterol free which is loaded with 15% of protein that increases the muscle power.

Identify the contribution of nutrition in losing weight of individual in Saudi Arabia

Foster?Schubert and et.al.,(2012) has asserted that increasing or decreasing weight of a person depends on the lifestyle of an individual as an individual who does more physical activity stay fit as compared to the people who stay at home. Due to busy schedules of the office more time is spent in sitting stores, more fat in the body as compared to the people who walk more. The research of the author targets 439 obese people and post-menopausal women to analyze the effects of reduction of calorie in both the individuals by taking the lower fat diet. By doing a comparison among these two categories people role of the nutrition has determined in reducing the weight of a person or not (Hazle Jr and Lee, 2016). Two parameters used by the author in analyzing the final outcome of the reduction of the weight through low-fat diet and exercise. By including these two factors reduction of the weight of overweight women has been analyzed over the period.

            Fundamentals of this research are to analyze the root cause of the prevalence of the obesity as it reaches all the levels of epidemic diseases which are creating lots of health issues in the life of an individual. Due to the lifestyle interventions, the ratio of obesity has increased from one period to another by increasing heart diseases whose severity even leads to the death of a person. Results facts say that only 5-10% people’s weight was affected by the changes in their lifestyle but higher obesity ratio is due to the carelessness of a person who gives more emphasizes to their taste buds instead of creating a balance in their life. Diabetes prevention program also participates in the research by testing the sample of 3000 random people and has ascertained that all of them are affected by chronic risks of diabetes. Increasing cause of diabetes is due to the increasing weight of a person.

Analyse the impact of nutrition in reducing obesity among people in Saudi Arabia

From the point of view of Caballero, (2005) it suggested that nutrition helps in bridging the gap among the underweight and overweight people in the developing countries. Underweight people suffering from adequate nutrition as due to the poor family condition they can’t eat healthy food in a day which increases dehydration in the form of diarrhoea. On the another hand, Obese people eat too much which decreases the quantity of good nutrition in their body which increases the risk of heart attack among all the obese people. Children in the developing countries are prone to the obesity due to improper food and lack of health and safety available in the country to overcome this problem (Joseph and et.al., 2016). Legal and political interventions are higher in these countries that entirely focus on developing the economic structure of their country rather than emphasizing on the health of all the individuals. 

The comparison among all these countries is based on the total percentage of overweight people in a single family in these countries. It can be evident from the above figure that majority of people in Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia are prone to this issue. Increasing problem of the obesity is due to the environmental structure of the nation as it contributes in increasing the risk of obesity among the people.

Lack of money is the root cause behind the underweight of all the people as they don’t have enough money to earn a livelihood for themselves and their family due to which they are eating the low calorie food along with low quality which is affecting their health. The quality of the food gets increased when the individuals earn higher wages in a day.

It has dual aspects that poor people eat low-quality foods that help in increasing their weight as compared to the normal weight person as an inclusion of saturated fats in the form low-cost vegetable oils increases cholesterol levels (Dev and et. al., 2017). On the contrary, to this non-saturated fats are presents in the high-quality oil as rich people use olive oil in cooking its food which helps in staying themselves in a good shape.

Suggest some strategies to overcome the problem of obesity in Saudi Arabia 

Centres for Disease Control, (2013) have asserted that changes take place in the present will generate in the future in the form of higher returns. The author focus is on improving the present structure of children’s life as they are regarded as the future generations. Impact of obesity is affecting the lives of all the children .A majority of children are suffering from several diseases. Department of health and science shows that there 61% of children surrounded by the black well of obesity in the age group of 5-10 years old that increases the risk factors such as heart disease.

            School authority plays a significant role in preventing the effect of obesity by compulsorily using meals in the school. In this approach, the school will inculcate a habit of eating healthy foods among all the children’s (Kumar Gupta and Amjad Kamal, 2017). A dietician should be appointed in school to design healthy meals for all the children according to their body types. The school authorities will medically be examining the health conditions of all the children regularly in keeping track on their weight to reduce by prescribing healthy diets to all the children.

  This is the critical evaluation of the thoughts and opinions of the authors on a given topic of the research study. The focus of the research lies in analyzing the role of nutrition in the lives of an individual in losing their weight. This critical evaluation will answer all the questions such as what, when, where and how the views and thoughts of the authors related to the current issue of the research study (Silverman, ed., 2016). The reading materials in the literature review are related to the nutrition such as food synergy concept that includes various details regarding all the super foods that help in preventing a person from the risk of cancer and tumours. Research of all the authors in the current research study ranges from 2005 to 2012 by focusing on the major issues related to the problem of obesity. This problem is about the Saudi Arabia which is fully surrounded with this issue as 70% of the citizens of this country are struggling with the burden of obesity which increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. People of the nation are forced to perform surgeries to get rid of all the excessive fats in their body which is affecting their overall life (Hewson and Stewart, 2016). Strategies framed by the authors will be helpful; in overcoming all the problems faced by an entity. One of the authors has recommended in launching personal diet program in schools to inculcate healthy eating among all the children’s.

Research design

It is a set of process that is used by investigator for the purpose of analyzing as well as collecting particular variables given in the research problem. It is a framework which has been generated to identify the answers to the research question in the study (Giuffrida, 2016). The main aim of the research design is to understand the depth and clarity of research problem than the statistical survey. There are various types of research designs that involve mainly experimental, exploratory, descriptive, and semi-experimental and correlation. 

Population

In the present research study, investigator targets population of Saudi that involves a doctor, nutritionist, and health minister. A sample size of doctors and Nutritionist are 30 and 40 for the purpose of taking advice and understand their perception regarding obesity issues. They gather information about the nutrition value so; they create awareness among the obesity person to stay healthy (Cole, 2017). They also target health minister to gain knowledge about the health policies framed by them. It is related to give protection to all the citizens of a country from the unhygienic food. It influences the restaurants to produce food outlets that serve high quality of food so, they maintain its body. 

Sample design

It is that type of sample design that is mainly made up of two components. It is a framework that shows the interest of a population on the basis of a sample survey. There are various types of sample design which are mainly based on the two main factors. It involves basis of representation and element selection approach (Holt, ed., 2016). On the basis of representation, the researcher adopts the probability sampling method or non-probability. On element basis, the investor will choose either restricted or non-restricted sample. Therefore, there are mainly two types of research design that will be taken in the research involves probability and non-probability sampling (Willson and et.al., 2017.). In the present research study, the random sampling method has selected so, that each member gets the equal chance of providing information about the present research topic. It is one the best technique that is used to gather information among the overall target population. The 100 people of Saudi Arabia have selected and distributed questionnaire in the research study. It helps them to understand their viewpoints regards to health issues. 

Data collection

Data collection is that process under which the researcher used to obtain information for the purpose of identifies answer of research question from the selected number of population. The types of methods are Quantitative and Qualitative to gather the information for the purpose of carrying out the research study effectively. The Quantitative method mainly relies on the random sampling that generates outcomes which are easy in generalize, summarize & compare (Sitnikova and et.al., 2017). The strategy includes in it are observation, experiment, face to face interview or telephone interviews and questionnaire etc. On the other hand, the qualitative method adopted by an investigator helps in enhancing the quality of survey. The strategies involved in it are depth interview, document review and observation methods. In the present research study, the questionnaire method has adopted to acquire data about the research topic. Under this, the questionnaire is distributed among a large number of people to understand their responsiveness about research issues (Plante, and Cox, 2016). The main of conducting the survey is to gather information about the problem of obesity in the people and develop the solution to reduce the number of diseases. The questionnaire is distributed among the local people of Saudi. It assists them to find out perception and viewpoints about the current issue of a research study.

Name Age Sex · Male · Female · Transgender Which is your favourite food out of the below options? · Healthy food · Junk food How frequently to eat junk food? · Once in a week · Daily · Once  in a month · Rarely · Never What you eat in junk food? · Pizza · Pasta · Noodles · Burger · Ice-cream Which mode you prefer in purchasing grocery items? · Retail store · Online store What you prefer to eat in lunch? · Bread · Whole chicken · Cheese · Burger · Vegetables Out of the following options given below, do you suffering from any disease? · Diabetes · Sugar · Cholesterol · Thyroid Please provide you opinion________________

There are mainly two types of data analysis are qualitative and quantitative. The researcher has adopted a quantitative method to analyze and evaluate the viewpoint among people about obesity issue. The questionnaire method distributed among the target population to know their favourite food, the frequency of eating fast food, type of junk food eaten etc. Apart from this, types of diseases they are suffering from consumption of unhealthier food and their choice of food in their lunchtime. On the basis of the survey, it has been analyzed from the data gather among the target people of Saudi Arabia through a questionnaire. The number of majorities prefers to eat junk food such as Pizza, Burger, and Noodles. The young generation eats burger and cheese in their daily routine lunchtime (Hadjistavropoulos, Malloy, Douaud and Smythe, 2016). For this reason, they are suffering from the Diabetes, heart and Cholesterol problem due to the increase of fast food consumed in their daily life. It has been evaluating that the government should take some measures are conduct health campaign and programmers etc. to create awareness among the necessity of healthier life. 

I feel grateful in choosing this research topic as this is related to the lives of all the individuals. Researching on the topic obesity is important as it helps in ascertaining all the solutions in getting rid of the current problem. In conducting research in the given area, I faced various difficulties in terms of lack of support from the legal officials of the Saudi Arabia as the country will give preference to its countrymen (Cuthbert,Whiteneck, Corrigan, and Bogner, 2016). Selecting this topic, I need to think twice as this issue is related to the social problems of the society whose facts and figures need to be accurate to guide all the users of the research. I also faced trouble in choosing research methods such as secondary or primary as selecting primary method will require more funding in collecting accurate data by knocking doors of all the people in the Saudi Arabia. I need to search data from all the states and cities of the Saudi Arabia.

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