Our lifestyle and what we eat/consume plays a big part of our health.

The Context:

Our lifestyle and what we eat/consume plays a big part of our health. Currently in Australia, diet related diseases are increasing in prevalence, due to our reliance on convenience foods and lower than required fruit and vegetable intakes. The cost of diet related diseases to our community is significant and it is important that we promote the importance of looking after ourselves. It will be your task to help with health promotion by providing information and support on a diet related disease.

The most common diet related diseases are:

• Obesity 

• Osteoporosis

• Type II Diabetes

• Heart Disease

• Hypertension

• Cholesterol

• Some forms of Cancer

Submit a plan/outline in table 1. 

When writing your text, you must ensure that the health promotion material you create is informative, factual, clearly and concisely set out, interesting and eye catching for your chosen audience. 

To ensure accurate information you will need to research and reference your chosen topic and provide information on the following points:

Introduction – in this section you will introduce the diet related disease and what occurs to the body 

Causes 

Statistics in Australia 

Prevention  

How nutrition can play a part

Where to get support

Helpful recipes – include 3 recipes that support prevention and outline why they assist in prevention (these should be of easy to medium difficulty and be able to be made within 1 hour)

References – provide a list of resources you used, minimum of 5 

What diet related disease have you selected 

Audience 

Who is your specific target audience?

How will you engage this adultaudience in your writing and design?

Tone 

What language will you use to provide this tone? 

The rubric states that it should be informative, formal and factual, so identify some key words to use throughout.

Text Type & Mode of delivery 

e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Prezi, Slides, Brochure, Pamphlet

Selected references/websites for your text 

include at least 5 credible references and record/type them here