Saturday, November 9, 2013
Nutrition!!!
I chose nutrition as my public health topic because eating a healthy meal is very important in a child's development. A child's body needs food for energy and to help the brain process and learn. I chose to look at nutrition in Africa. In Africa, the need for food is high and this is due to lack of agriculture and shortages on water supply. It has been a consistent problem to make sure children are supplied with nutritious meals each day. Emergency food supplies are given to vulnerable and orphaned children, but support is always needed through donations to the Aid for Africa, African SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN PROBLEMS (ASAP), and any other charitable organizations. Seeing the area I work in, I do have some families that don't have much money, but through USDA, we can serve our children nutritious meals for breakfast, lunch, and snack. This will provide them with healthy meals needed to help function in a school day.
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I am glad that there are programs such as USDA that allow the children to receive healthy meals through your school. Out school is located in a fairly affluent area and the parents provide lunches. Overall the parents provide extremely healthy meals.I know this is in no small part due to their upper middle income. I look at the lunches and high concentration of organic and specialty, healthy meals and think to myself this kid has a $20.00 lunch. It is certainly more difficult for lower income families as so much considered healthy carries a higher price than processed quick foods.
ReplyDeleteTierra,
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful that you use food programs to help supply all your children with healthy meals at school. It breaks my heart to see children hungry. What a lot of people do not realize is that we have more hungry children in our own country than in some third world countries. That is so sad to me. I am working with a center that the majority of the children are low income. In fact the overwhelming majority are attending thanks to DSS subsidy. The teachers know the only meals some of these children are receiving are the ones at school. Knowing this, they send home food whenever they can. Is there a way to set up a type of food drive/pantry to help those parents financially struggling have access to healthier foods?
Myra
Tierra,
ReplyDeleteThat great for what you do, how many family's do you think you help a day? What do you think there food source is like when they get home. I guess for me its hard to see that because would know that most those kids wont get dinner when they get home. If they are getting food at home i wonder what kind of food that they are getting, which is probable not anything healthy for them. Sad to know that things like this are happening in our society and we focused on people outside the United States.