Survey Of Rural Residents' Dietary Nutrition At Economically Different Districts In Zhuhai City

Zhuhai is a major city in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province. In recent years, it provides a more nutritional status for farmers in Zhuhai because of the rapid economic development and heightening living standards. However, uneven economic development at the various areas, especially the rural areas in Zhuhai, coupling with a weak foundation of health education and management that make people lack of nutritional knowledge, and many other reasons, results in outstanding nutritional and health problems. These problems show up with nutrition-deficiency and nutrition-imbalance that cause obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The double malnutrition increases year after year. If these problems can not be solved in time, it will have a heavy impact on the health of rural residents in Zhuhai and in turn will affect the sustainable development of Zhuhai. Therefore, this paper surveyed food assumption behaviors, nutrients intaking level, dietary structure and nutrition-related diseases of rural residents in Zhuhai; analyzed the dietary factors of affecting their health; presented the corresponding strategies to improve the nutritional status of rural residents in Zhuhai city. It provided the scientific evidence for the government decision-makers to develop better programs strategies of nutrition and health promotion by analyzingThe residents'dietary habits and physical data had been surveyed of Doumen County, Jinwan County, Gaolan Port, Hengqin, High-tech Zone (Tang) Rural economic development in Zhuhai City based on random sampling method. The objectives include 201 at Qixi village of Qianwu town,153 at Feisha village of Gaolan Port town,130 at Houhuang village of high-tech zones (Tang),210 at Haichen Village of Kingwan district, and 141 at Hongqi village of Hengqin town. The surveyed data concerned about dietary and nutrients intakes, the incidence of obesity and high blood pressure cases. Then, both of the data of normal group and obese group, and that of normal group and hypertension group had been analyzed and compared.The survey results showed the dietary pattern of rural residents is irrational. All surveyed rural districts in Zhuhai City share common nutritional problems, mainly in a low intake of coarse grains, vegetable, fruit, milk and dairy products, beans and soy products and nuts of consumption, which led to the absence of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin B1, potassium, calcium, magnesium, dietary fiber and some other nutrients, hence to a higher incidence of chronic non-infectious diseases, especially hypertension and obesity. Physical data showed that 40.3% overweight in all surveyed people, about 337 residents; 36.3%(about 303) population people with hypertension; 53.4% population with both hypertensive and overweight. These problems are directly relative to the imbalanced dietary intake, especially the lack of nutrients that are related to energy metabolism. This paper further proved that the correlation between nutrition and some chronic diseases. It is necessary to further publicize the scientific knowledge of food nutrition information; to make it popularity for improving people's health awareness, bettering physical fitness.