Wednesday 23 July 2014

Nutrition Month Celebration 2014


Awareness to the Nutrition Month Theme 2014

Nutrition month is one of the most important events, that is why we are celebrating it today for the month of July. This includes the importance of making informed food choices as well as developing and maintaining good eating habits. The one chosen theme for this year is, “Kalamidad Paghandaan: Gutom at Malnutrisyon Agapan”. Some students ask about what this theme all about. They did not notice the importance on understanding it while they were celebrating it.

The theme is referred to us about what happened to Tacloban City, Philippines as they were experienced a great state of calamity last November 2013 after being severely hit by super typhoon named “Yolanda”. The government did not want to happen this again because many people died. So they made a campaign and through this theme, it will become useful and easy for them.

The theme promotes interventions to address nutritional needs in emergencies and disasters. This includes on how the people will prepare, recover, and response the calamity of the country. It will also increase the awareness among the families and every individual to improve their strategies to prevent malnutrition and worsening of nutritional status in times of emergencies and disasters. It aims to uplift a person to be ready and become healthy at all times especially on calamities.    

It is believed that giving importance to nutrition awareness is a great key to a better preparedness and efficiently responds to nutrition in emergencies.

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