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Nutrition week aims to enhance nutrition security

A “Nutrition and Development” week, carrying the message of ensuring nutrition security and food safety for public health, will be launched by the Ministry of Health from October 16-23.
A “Nutrition and Development” week, carrying the message of ensuringnutrition security and food safety for public health, will be launchedby the Ministry of Health from October 16-23.

Thecampaign is part of the ministry’s effort to realise the goals of theNational Strategy on Nutrition in the 2011-2020 period and respond tothe World Food Day (October 16).

A series ofactivities will be hosted during the event encouraging and teachingpeople how to eat more nutritious food and process food in the right wayto preserve nutrition.

The public healthdepartments in cities and provinces nationwide will coordinate withrelated agencies to popularise knowledge on gardening and husbandry aswell as daily nutrition among families, especially those in remote andnatural disaster-prone areas.

According to theNutrition Institute under the Ministry of Health, Vietnam currently hasaround 7.68 million children under 5, of whom over 2 million areundersized and over 1 million are underweight due to malnourishment.

At the same time, the number of overweighedchildren in this age group is increasing fast, now accounting for 5.6percent of the total.

The average height ofVietnamese men in the 20-24 age group is 164.44 cm while that of womenin the same age group is 153.42cm.-VNA
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