TEHRAN – A national campaign promoting healthy eating habits will begin on December 6 and run for more than two weeks.
The annual campaign aims to raise public awareness of the importance of healthy eating. According to a report by the Ministry of Health, this year’s campaign is themed “Health and Bread” and emphasizes the importance of consuming healthy bread.
Each day of the week we will focus on a specific topic, such as:
Saturday, December 6th “Healthy Bread Selection”
Sunday, December 7th “Healthy Bread and Family”
Monday, December 8th “Healthy bread and non-infectious diseases”
December 9th (Tuesday) “Healthy Bread and Media”
Wednesday, December 10th “Healthy Bread and Policy Makers”
December 11th (Thursday) “Traditional bread and commercial bread”
Friday, December 12th “Healthy bread and its nutrients”
Saturday, December 13th “Healthy Bread and Bakery”
Sunday, December 14th “Healthy Bread and People’s Demand”
Monday, December 15th “Enriching bread”
December 16th (Tuesday) “Healthy bread and how to store it”
Wednesday, December 17th “Rural Bread Waste”
December 18th (Thursday) “Healthy bread and its price”
Friday, December 19th “Healthy bread and the role of women”
Saturday, December 20th “Healthy Bread and Food Industry”
Sunday, December 21st “Healthy Bread and Makers”
Increasing rural nutrition literacy
The Ministry of Health plans to improve nutritional literacy among people in rural areas to address nutritional health concerns in these areas.
Mehr News Agency quoted Ahmad Esmailzadeh, an official at the Ministry of Health, as saying in January that despite the high quality of food in rural areas, there is a lack of knowledge about nutrition, which affects the choice of food to consume and has a major impact on the population.
Officials noted that all forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition (wasting, stunting, and underweight), vitamin and mineral deficiencies, overweight, and obesity, are occurring among children in rural areas because of the ignorance of some parents about child nutrition.
He added that the prevalence of diabetes, high blood fats and high blood pressure in the village was the second reason for the need for nutrition experts.
The official further said that around 350 nutrition experts are expected to start working in rural areas by the end of this year (March 2025) in Iran.
The nutrition experts will promote nutrition literacy and, as a result, improve the health of the village people, the official added.
It is essential to increase people’s knowledge and awareness and train them to take care of themselves and prevent obesity and disease by eating healthy food, getting enough calories and getting 30 minutes of exercise a day.
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