write any five activities to create awareness on malnutrition
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There are 4 broad sub-forms of undernutrition: wasting, stunting, underweight, and deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. ...
Low weight-for-height is known as wasting. ...
Low height-for-age is known as stunting. ...
Children with low weight-for-age are known as underweight.
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People can be educated on
The nutritional quality of common foods
Importance and nutritional quality of various locally available and culturally accepted low cost foods
Importance of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continuing to breast feed up to two years or beyond.
Damage caused by irrational beliefs and cultural practices of feeding
Recipes for preparing proper weaning foods and good supplementary food from locally available low cost foods.
mportance of including milk, eggs, meat or pulses in sufficient quantities in the diet to enhance the net dietary protein value.
Importance of feeding children and adults during illness
Importance and advantages of growing a kitchen garden
Importance of immunizing their children and following proper sanitation in their day to day life.
Early detection of malnutrition and intervention
The longer the developmental delays remain uncorrected, the greater the chance of permanent effects and hence intervention must occur during pregnancy and first three years of life.
A well recorded growth chart can detect malnutrition very early. Velocity of growth is more important than the actual weight at a given time
If growth of the child is slowed or is arrested as shown by flat curve on the growth card, physician should be alerted and any hidden infection or any reason for nutritional deficiency must be evaluated and taken care of.
If growth chart is not maintained, anthropometric indices like, weight, height mid arm circumference, and chest circumference etc. can be measured and used for evaluation of nutrition.
Nutrition supplementation
Usually, biologically vulnerable groups like pregnant women, infants, preschool going and school going children are targeted by various welfare measures conducted by the government. Calories, proteins and micronutrients like iron, vitamin A and zinc can be supplemented.
malnutrition is not a stranger. nutrition is indeed a thing that is often overlooked because of the many delicious but not nutritious foods. this is a very helpful article! I will start paying attention to my nutrition.