Health Nutrition Education
As the leading authority on health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified the lack of education regarding health nutrition as the leading cause of malnutrition, increasing mortality rates and hunger in general. The increasing threat has always been the lack of resources and information; after all, resources would be of little importance if governments cannot learn to optimize them.
Because information dissemination is a challenge especially on large scales, simple ideas would be a good platform to start of this movement. Pregnant mothers as well as infants are the ones most prone to the diseases when their immune systems are compromised by unhealthy eating. Not many mothers and soon-to-be mothers are aware that breastfeeding for the first 6 months of a child’s life. This is important to minimize the deaths that occur among children 5 years old and below. Proper breastfeeding is also beneficial because it helps in prevent obesity and stunting in the children; it also helps in promoting their intellectual development.
Studies also show that an increase in the number of disease infected individual around the world can be attributed to the number of undernourished in the population. Their loss in nourishment is often the cause of their death and most times this is also brought about because of
The World Health Organization Growth Charts Based on Breastfed Infants