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Uganda Nutrition and Dietetic Association

A professional organisation for Dietitians and Nutritionists in Uganda

28/06/2021

Regional food systems summit dialogues happening tomorrow, 29th June 2021. Join Zoom Meeting
https://fao.zoom.us/j/98463137187

Meeting ID: 984 6313 7187
Passcode: 30924589

22/03/2017

Mr Museveni said his last visit in Makulubita Sub-county where he encouraged residents to use water bottles for irrigation was misinterpreted by many people yet he had a point for the rural poor who

15/02/2017

09/02/2017

In January 2017, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) launched a new guidebook to support multi-sectoral solutions to undernutrition through improved integrated approaches with the water, sanitation and hygiene sector (WASH). It is an operational guidebook which demonstrates the importance of both supplement...

16/01/2017

Statistics show that a consumption rate of one kilogramme of banana per person per day, which is incidentally the highest consumption rate of banana in the world

06/01/2017

The UN Network for SUN has launched a Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN): A list of possible nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions including multi-sectoral governance.

28/12/2016

14/12/2016

WOMEN BLAME MEN FOR CHILD MALNUTRITION
(Cultural Beliefs)
In explaining the mystery of malnourished children amidst healthy parents, BETTY KAKO, the district nutritionist, blames it on myths entrenched in society.

"Children are not supposed to eat fish and eggs because the community believes that such children may end up as mutes," she says.

Whereas such foods contain nutrients essential for child growth, they remain a preserve for the parents, a scenario KAKO blames for malnourished children.

She encouraged mothers to feed children on affordable but highly nutritious foods such as silver fish commonly known as mukene and green vegetables.

Extract: NEW VISION , Monday December 12, 2016, page 15.

09/11/2016

Four(4) Nutritionists and Six(6) Nutrition Feeding Assistants needed.
Note: Deadline is 10 November 2016.

03/11/2016

Many fast foods and drinks are loaded with carbohydrates and, consequently, a lot of calories.

02/11/2016

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