What kind of arguments can you make out of poverty being a risk for heart disease?

Question

Need some suggestions for a research paper.

Answer 1

Poverty increases the risk of heart disease due to the following contributing factors:
Lack of access to health care
Lack of access to proper nutrition/proper nutrition education
Lack of access to health education

Answer 2

I don't think you can connect heart disease to poverty per se because fundamentally, heart disease and its origins are quite complex. Lots of poor families around at the turn of last century -I would say considerably more than today, but the instance of heart disease has sky rocketed over the last few generations, so if you attempt to relate poverty to not enough food, it doesn't work that way.
What DOES work is when you start realising the enormous changes in lifestyle that have occurred over the last, say 100 years. No television, no computers, no couch potatoes. Back 50/100 years ago, poor folks may have eaten a lot more animal fats, (that today we know are a No-No, but boy, oh boy, they were NOT sedentary. They were out there working their butts off. When kids got home from school they got out there and helped their parents do a lot of that arduous work that they didn't have a way to avoid, nor did they have a lot of fancy electronic distractions. Heart disease avoidance is the same today as it always was -keeping physically active, and not putting into your system anything that could clog your precious pipes, if it just lays there and builds up because you aren't doing anything to work it out of the system..
In reality, there would seem to be a far stronger case against, not poverty but affluence as being linked to the frightening increase in heart disease, diabetes, and, (there is growing evidence), a lot of other debilitating diseases affecting not just the general population, but increasingly younger members of it. Fast food, junk food, and lack of physical activity are the main villains of this unfortunate story., to which we can add, of course, drugs and alcohol.

Answer 3

How about the fact that healthy foods are more expensive than say a $1 bag of potato chips. People that have heart disease have to be very cautious as to what they eat. Cant afford gym memberships to get the added exercise they need and maybe they can't even afford health insurance.

Answer 4

I think you would surely eat a lower quality food, and not pay attention so much as to the type of food you and your family were consuming... ( fried, baked, etc.. ) You would be much busier thinking of how to make it through the day, rather than thinking how your health was affected by the means you were using... If in poverty, you would probably not have access to top notch medical care, or be without medical care altogether... Use your imagination, put yourself in the other persons place, and try to consider these things from their prospective...

Answer 5

In the United States a lot of the poverty level people rely on food stamps for food. The buying style that accompanies this is that of high fat content and high starch content. It costs more for healthy foods ie; organic, sugar free ect.

Answer 6

lack of, or limited access to medical care and treatment. no knowledge of services available to the poor (such as low-cost medical insurance). no knowledge of the risks or consequences of heart disease and its effect on the low-income population. having to rely on fatty, or processed foods for meals because healthy organic foods are prohibitively high (ie. processed foods are cheapest, and food stamps may be limited).

Answer 7

Your diet is going to be a huge factor and what you can afford- noodles and cereal wetc are cheap.....also in many places, excercise is a luxcury because of time and area and responsiblities--