Spreading the spirit of scientific nutrition

After being held twice in July 2023 (in Hanoi) and April 2024 (in Ho Chi Minh City), the 3rd Vietnam Community Nutrition Day returns to the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake to strongly spread the spirit of scientific nutrition and reasonable exercise to the public.

The Community Nutrition Day has two main parts: a knowledge test and a stage movement competition. The performances of 20 teams with a youthful and vibrant spirit, extremely attractive performances have attracted a large number of people on the walking street to enjoy and cheer. In addition, the Organizing Committee also arranged 10 consulting booths for leading nutrition experts to examine and advise people for free.

Professor, Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health, assessed: Community Nutrition Day has helped people connect with each other, share with each other to be healthier with stronger spirit and will. Just like that, the movement of self-training for health is spreading more and more widely in society, contributing significantly to health communication work.

Professor, Dr. Tran Van Thuan shared that in 2017, the 12th Party Central Committee issued two important documents in planning strategies for health work. These were Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW on strengthening the work of protecting, caring for and improving people's health in the new situation and Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW on population work in the new situation.

Nutritionists provide nutritional advice and consultation to people.

Resolution 20 states: Recommend and popularize nutritional regimes and appropriate food portions for each target group, source of ingredients, and taste of Vietnamese people. Implement programs to supplement essential micronutrients for pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children, and the elderly. Resolution 21 also emphasizes: Promote propaganda and mobilization work, arouse the movement for all people to regularly exercise and play sports , have a healthy lifestyle, and a reasonable nutritional regime to improve the health, stature, and physical strength of Vietnamese people...

Most recently, in January 2024, the Government approved the National Strategy for protecting, caring for and improving people's health for the period up to 2030, with a vision to 2045. The Strategy sets out one of the main tasks as follows: Effectively implementing the National Strategy on Nutrition for the period 2021-2030 and a vision to 2045; Nutrition Care Program for the first 1,000 days of life. Ensuring proper nutrition to improve nutritional status appropriate to each subject, locality, region, area, and ethnicity.

Thus, it can be seen that our Party and State always care for and prioritize healthcare in general and have specific strategies to improve the stature, physical strength and intelligence of Vietnamese people.

Nowadays, life has improved a lot, we are no longer worried about having enough to eat but are worried about eating in moderation. In fact, the rate of overweight and obesity is still increasing despite the recommendations. That is also mostly due to not knowing how to eat in moderation, how to exercise appropriately. To be more precise, there are still many people who do not care about practicing scientific nutrition and reasonable exercise.

A team's performance at Community Nutrition Day.

Efforts to communicate and raise people's awareness and understanding of nutrition and exercise have had positive effects. There are more and more community events to spread positive energy from people who love to exercise. And programs like the Vietnam Community Nutrition Day organized by the Health and Life Newspaper today have great significance in promoting and raising people's understanding of scientific nutrition and healthy exercise.

On this occasion, the leaders of the Ministry of Health continued to call on the community to join hands to support the people of the North to overcome the consequences of storm No. 3 (storm YAGI).

Source: https://nhandan.vn/lan-toa-tinh-than-dinh-duong-khoa-hoc-van-dong-hop-ly-post832275.html