How easy is it for someone with a dietary need to eat appropriate foods?

Have a little read: ... How easy is it for someone with a dietary need to eat appropriate foods? Section A: Task 1: Planning and Information Factors Involved How easy exactly is it for someone with a dietary need to eat appropriate foods? What exactly is a dietary need? I know that it can't be the easiest thing in the world to have a dietary need and eating all the appropriate foods needed is the simplest task. A dietary need is basically when a person's body does not function as an average one. An example of this is a popular dysfunction in the body when it can not produce a hormone called insulin, which is responsible for the absorption of glucose into cells. So this means the diabetic has to firstly inject this hormone and maintain a diet with not too much or too little glucose, it has to be exactly balanced. Another example of a dietary need is Crohn's Disease, which is when an inflammation occurs in the digestive system. Coronary Heart Disease, another dietary need is the narrowing of the coronary arteries feeding the heart. I am going to particularly focus on Diabetes that is the most common of the selected dietary needs I have selected. I am going to investigate what it is like to self motivate you as well e.g. a diabetic can not just go and eat several chocolate bars, this could cause severe problems even death. So I am going to see just how hard it is to self motivate yourself if you did have a dietary need. To find out exactly what this must be like, I am going to create a survey and question some Diabetics at the local Diabetic Clinic. I am also going to pretend to be a Diabetic for a weekend. Asking Questions What is Diabetes? It has been estimated that 1 million people in the UK have diabetes. Diabetes Mellitus, its full name is a disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism making abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes Mellitus can eventually damage the eyes, kidneys, heart and limbs, and can endanger pregnancy. There are two types of Diabetes Mellitus - type 1, or insulin-dependant diabetes mellitus (IDDM), formally called juvenile-onset diabetes, which occurs in children and young adults, had been implicated as one of the auto immune diseases. Type II, or non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), formally called adult-onset diabetes, is usually found in persons over 40 years old and progresses slowly. With adequate treatment, most diabetics maintain blood-sugar levels within a normal or nearly normal range. This means they can lead normal lives and prevent long term consequences of the disease. However, how easy is it for someone with dietary needs like diabetes to eat appropriate food. The Diet requires distributing meals and snacks throughout the day so that the insulin supply is not overwhelmed and eating food that contains polysaccharides rather than simple sugars. (Polysaccharides must first be broken down in the stomach, therefore producing a much slower rise in sugar). For type II diabetics, most of whom are at least moderately overweight, the basics of therapy are diet control, weight reduction, and exercise. What is Crohn's disease? Crohn's disease causes inflammation in the small intestine. Crohn's disease usually occurs in the lower part of the small intestine, called the ileum, but it can affect any part of the digestive system, from the mouth to the anus. The inflammation extends deep into the lining of the affected organ. The inflammation can cause pain and can make the intestines empty frequently, resulting in diarrhoea. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the general name for diseases that cause inflammation in the intestines. Crohn's disease affects men and women equally and can be genetic. About 20 percent of people with Crohn's disease have a blood relative with some form of IBD, most often a brother or sister and sometimes a parent or child. Crohn's disease may also be called ileitis or enteritis. What is Coronary heart disease? Narrowing of the coronary arteries that feed the heart causes heart disease. Like any muscle, the heart needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients, which are carried to it by the blood in the coronary arteries. When the coronary arteries become narrowed or clogged by cholesterol and fat deposits a process called atherosclerosis and cannot supply enough blood to the heart, the result is coronary heart disease (CHD). If not enough oxygen-carrying blood reaches the heart, a chest pain called angina develops. If the blood supply to a portion of the heart is completely cut off by total blockage of a coronary artery, the result is a heart attack. This is usually happens due to a sudden closure from a blood clot forming on top of a previous narrowing. Cholesterol