You are What You Eat - a literature review

Abstract

Health promotion can be achieved by educating and enabling people to make healthier lifestyle choices. The thesis uses the theory of health promotion as the framework, then focuses on the relationship between the diet and the health of the elderly, to raise awareness of the impact one’s diet has on his or her health, through a review of twelve scientific researches, by focusing on the research question: “What are concrete cases demonstrating the potential connections between the diet pattern and the elderly’s health conditions?”

Referring to the book “ Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care” by Helen Aveyard, a systematic literature review is conducted following the steps of identifying the research questions, data searching, data selection and data analysis. Results shows that there are scientific evidences demonstrating the connections between the diet and the elderly’s health, which are concluded into the relationship between the diet and the physical health, and the relationship between the diet and the cognitive health.

Possible limitations result from the conduct of the literature review on a basis of limited resources as well as those generated from the researches themselves