Nutrition week aims to improve public health

The Ministry of Health will launch a “Nutrition and Development” week from October 16-23, carrying the message of ensuring nutrition security and food safety for all people’s health.
The Ministry of Health will launch a “Nutrition and Development” weekfrom October 16-23, carrying the message of ensuring nutrition securityand food safety for all people’s health.

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 week 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.-VNA

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