Is poor diet responsible for untimely or early death? Are the urban people relying on high intake of sodium and low quality food? How is the regional variation of food intake?

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What a very nice question by @devine-sound. I will have to take the questions one by one so that I can make my answer my explicit.

Is poor diet responsible for untimely or early death?

It is actually a "YES" and a "NO" for me with the below reasons.

A health expert stated that "we become what we eat". This implies that the type of food we consume has a vital role to play in our health lives. Good nutritional diet intake can lead to a very good and healthy lifestyle by improving the body system activities and sense organs such that they tend to be drastically active in performing their required tasks and functions. Someone with poor diet may not be able to achieve these sets of features which can lead to some health problems as a result of poor diet and this is why I actually agree by saying it's a "yes".

On the other hand, haven't you come across different scenarios than has to do with young ones dying despite the fact they eat very healthy. Some rich kids who eat healthily in terms of proper diet may also die even though they eat very healthy. I think sometimes in life we can't just go against the bitter side of life which is brought as a natural occurrence. Death is an unexpected occurrence that can happen at anytime irrespective of one's age or healthy diet consumed. This implies that sometimes nature can just play it's part such that someone who eat very healthy may also die and this is why I disagree with the point which is also a NO.

Are the urban people relying on high intake of sodium and low quality food?

Firstly, we need to recognize the fact that urban people has lots of quality foods because most of the foods consumed by the urban people are mostly transported from rural areas which are later processed in the urban areas. They also import foods from other countries for consumption.

This implies that it actually depends on the area you find yourself in an urban center. There maybe places that is highly dominant with sodium foods such that other food nutrients may tend to be scarce (it is rare for such to happen). But in most cases, urban areas will always have lots of foods with different nutrients and not only sodium.

About eating low quality food in urban area, it actually depends on the amount of money you have and you location you may find yourself. There are lots places in urban area with lot of high quality foods and I guess you might not have come across them maybe because of your location or maybe they may seem expensive.

How is the regional variation of food intake?

The regional variation of food intake seems to be moderate through out the region. This means we still have to solve more problems about how we can produce more foods. I suggest we need to increase the Agricultural practice in different regions of the world as this will help produce more foods for people.

Thanks for reading and I hope this helps.

Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/health/@hardaeborla/pkyuhftdq