• Micronutrients are essential for children's growth.
  • Prevention of micronutrient deficiencies
  • Nutrition in the first 1,000 golden days of life

Dr. Duong Thi Tu, Cai Nuoc Regional Medical Center shared: "In order to improve nutritional status and promote the role of nutrition in daily meals, in recent years, the Center has promoted propaganda activities to improve knowledge and practice on the importance of nutrition, as well as the attention of all levels and sectors on nutrition activities in the community. Implement integration into club activities of mothers with children under 2 years old and under 5 years old in communes. In particular, focus on training on communication on breastfeeding and nutrition for pregnant women for women who are members of the Women's Union. Because this will be an effective propaganda force in communication activities and a subject of practice on the necessity of nutrition in each family".

It is necessary to build a diverse diet and ensure a reasonable nutritional regimen to prevent malnutrition in children.

With the aim of proper nutrition for sustainable development to improve nutritional status. Propagating to improve knowledge, practice and understanding of the community about the importance of nutrition. In addition, conveying many meaningful and practical messages such as developing VAC to create a source of local, clean and safe food for family meals. At the same time, guiding people to use a variety of foods, properly raise children, prevent malnutrition, overweight, obesity...

In recent times, with the active advocacy and propaganda of the Women's Union and medical collaborators, the awareness of local women has been influenced to focus on developing the VAC model on the basis of environmental protection to create a source of local, clean and safe food for family meals. At the same time, using a variety of foods and combining many types of food, increasing the intake of vegetables, tubers, fruits and available foods supplemented with micronutrients. Implementing proper child nutrition in the first 1000 days of life to help children develop optimally in terms of physical strength, stature and intelligence when they grow up. In addition, implementing healthy nutrition, increasing physical activity to prevent overweight, obesity and non-communicable diseases. Exercise to improve health, enhance resistance to contribute to disease prevention... has been enthusiastically responded by women at all levels.

It is necessary to build a diverse diet and ensure a reasonable nutritional regimen to prevent malnutrition in children.

In addition, to improve the condition of malabsorption in children, parents need to adjust their diet by dividing meals into smaller portions, supplementing foods rich in protein (meat, fish, eggs), good fats (vegetable oil, butter), vitamins, essential minerals such as zinc, vitamin D. At the same time, maintaining good personal hygiene, giving children physical exercise, regular deworming and using probiotics to improve intestinal health is also very important, but it is necessary to consult a doctor for appropriate instructions.

An unreasonable diet is the cause of malnutrition, affecting the physical strength and stature of children. Unreasonable nutrition is also an important factor in the rapid increase of some non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, overweight and obesity rates, and diabetes rates. A reasonable diet will meet the body's needs in different stages of the life cycle, creating optimal growth and development for the fetus and young children, as well as effectively preventing most diseases for a healthy body, good health, high labor productivity and good quality of life for all ages. Therefore, family meals play an extremely important role and need to be guaranteed in terms of quantity, quality and micronutrients.

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