16/10/2013
16-10-2013 - "WORLDS FOOD DAY.!"
It is said to offer the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security....
BUT IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING...?
Nutritional problems like protein energy malnutrition (PEM), anemia and vitamin A deficiency continue to plague a large proportion of Indian children. The diets and nutritional status of urban slum children in India is far away from being satisfactory. The nutritional status of slum children is worst amongst all urban groups and is even poorer than the rural average. Urban migration has not provided them salvation from poverty and undernutrition. Another distressing feature is the lack of any significant improvement over the years in this population. Most common causes of malnutrition include faulty infant feeding practices, impaired utilization of nutrients due to infections and parasites, inadequate food and health security, poor environmental conditions and lack of proper child care practices. High prevalence of malnutrition among young children is also due to lack of awareness and knowledge regarding their food requirements and absence of a responsible adult care giver. With increasing urban migration in the years ahead, the problem of malnutrition in urban slums will also acquire increasing dimension unless special efforts are initiated to mitigate the health and nutrition problems of the urban poor. Improving nutritional status of urban poor requires a more direct, more focused, and more integrated strategy.
At the same time, it is also important to emphasize that India is an enormous and diverse country, and much of health and nutrition programming is directed at the state level. Growth-nutrition strategies will look very different across the country, and there is much work to be done in thinking through such regional challenges.
Factors like increasing prices ,unemployment, illetracy, poverty, ignorance and many such factors are extremely complex – but emphasizes that there are significant social dimensions to nutrition-sensitive growth. We must think beyond pro-poor growth to pro-nutrition growth, where rising incomes and government revenues not only target poverty but improvements in health, infrastructure, and education.
However it is not easy to have a solution to this problem but it isn't impossible too...
Sharanam with a hope of celebrating a "HAPPY" food day everyday...(and not only on 16th oct every year)
gives you a chance where you can atleast take a step to look forward this problem of our nation's future children and give a small piece of donation to it...
A small help can fill the empty plates and a hungry childs stomach...and can also free a child from the nutritional diseases .... and then finally would make every food day A HAPPY FOOD DAY....:)
