07Nov
A number of factors if taken seriously can ease the problems of malnutrition as below:
⦁ Establishment of nutritional rehabilitation centres: these are areas that are set up to deal with malnourished to them for management and advice as described above.
⦁ Health education in nutrition: this should be directed to parents on the importance of breastfeeding and a good inter-family distribution of food. It should also be extended to school health education. All children should be taught the importance of a balanced diet.
⦁ Health education on family planning: the parents should be made to understand that spacing of births gives more time to be spent on each child in order to prevent malnutrition. It also enables them have an ideal family size that can be managed and catered for well.
⦁ Health education on immunization: most of the nutritional conditions are precipitated by conditions like measles and whooping cough. In view of this, parents should be encouraged to immunize their children.
⦁ Government intervention: the government should try to develop local complementary foods like weanimix and soya beans at cheaper prices for the parents to afford. Apart from this, the agriculture officers should research into quicker maturing foods for the farmers.
According to Vlok (1994), obesity is the most important condition in affluent societies, and that, rise in privilege among them usually leads to less physical activity as well as the consumption of richer diets.Obesity is excessive development of fat throughout the body than the body requires. A person is said to be obese when his weight does not correspond to his height (Body Mass Index). It is usually a state of gross mass excess.
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