Nutrition Education in Himalayas!
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Author: | Dr Prabha Bisht |
ISBN 13: | 9789388536608 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2021 |
Subject: | Anthropology and Sociology/Child Studies |
About the Book
Food is the base for our survival; we all need good nutrition through food for optimal health and productivity. But do we all eat well? Probably not! There could be many reasons for not eating well, like food insufficiency, poverty, gender biasness or simply lack of knowledge. FAO Nutrition Officer Peter Glasauer once said, To be food secure, families need sufficient resources to produce or purchase adequate food, however, this does not guarantee good nutrition and health as we can see from the diet-related health problems among even more affluent population groups. People also need an understanding of what constitutes an appropriate diet for good health, and they must have the skills and motivation to make the best food choice available to them. In India despite impressive economic growth and self sufficiency in Agriculture, eradicating malnutrition among children remains a big challenge. In India at one hand we see obese kids while on the other hand children starve to death, in both the scenarios Nutrition Education can help people taking right kind and amount of Nutrition. Though the term Malnutrition remains synonym with poverty and lack of resources and to a great extent it is true but research studies worldwide have shown that lack of economic resources is not the only constraint. Several factors contribute to the nutritional status of population. The present work finds its backdrop and inspiration from Uttarakhand Himalaya, wherein an attempt has been made to teach the children Health and Nutrition education in an unconventional yet highly effective manner so that it may be proved as key instrument to prevent malnutrition. Making the children aware of the benefit of good health and nutrition at an early age is an investment that has incessant benefits. The result from the study will also help the policy makers to formulate low-cost-high-effect interventions in the child development and nutrition program.