Children’s Workshop on Nutrition
Urgent actions
1. Families should have timetable for meals 2. Learn proper method to cook to avoid eating under cooked or over cooked food 3. Proper labelling on food packets stating ingredients, manufacturing and expiration dates 4. Parents should not provide money to children to purchase food but rather cook at home 5. Job opportunities should be provided to reduce poverty and increase ability of people to purchase nutritious food 6. Government interventions to encourage farming as a profession by providing necessary support. Encouraging youths to get involved in farming and provide training on modern agri... Read moreculture. 7. Awareness campaigns on the need for having nutrition for all people in the community 8. Limiting import from other countries to encourage agriculture in our own country 9. Eliminate easy accessibility of junk food and have strict regulations 10. Promoting organic fertilizers and training farmers on the usage of right amount of pesticides 11. Plan urbanization 12. Discourage manufacturing of junk food and government interventions should be made to ban ultra-processed foods 13. Schools should ban bringing and selling packaged or unhealthy food in school premises and allow only homemade food 14. Marketing and awareness programs of organic foods 15. Promote utilizing barren agricultural land for cultivation and also encourage everyone to grow their own food in available spaces as a leisure activity 16. Business houses to be oriented to have a change in mindset and be responsible towards society Read less