Happy National Nutrition Month everyone!
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It’s unfortunate that we, the people who are supposed to be helping others, have this bias against our clients. We should be doing better to service them, and we should know better than to have unfair judgement when we are taught thst there is not just one cause or contributing factor to obesity.
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Why do I live in a country where people are against schools giving healthier meals in an attempt to lower the rate of obesity in the United States?
And if you think that providing a healthy, nutritious, and good tasting lunch menu isn’t possible, I’d like to direct you to this link:
http://theadvocate.com/features/food/3768397-123/charter-school-serves-up-purity
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Big Buddy
So at school, some of us nutrition majors are going to be teaching some young kids and teenagers from the Big Buddy program how to cook different foods. Yesterday I and some other students helped my professor come up with a menu for the first lesson which is on vegetables. We’re going to make Eggplant Parmesan, pea dip, lentil soup, bean burgers, green salads, fruit salads, and some other stuff. I was getting hungry while looking at the recipes! I’m excited to see how things turn out in the next few weeks.
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500sandwiches:
Sugar, Water, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour, Barley Malt, Ferrous Sulfate (Iron), “B” Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Folic Acid)], Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Palm Kernel, Coconut, Palm), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed With Alkali,…
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thagoodthings:
transientsoulscribbles:
highvoodoopussypope:
punjabi-rani:
i’m a milk supremacist but this is for my lactose-intolerant buddies
i’m lactose intolerant but i’d rather die than drink any of these
Almond milk is HORRIBLE. Just don’t do it.
Keeping in mind for my little one, I won’t give her cows milk because everyone I drink it and nurse her she has extreme gas
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All of us dietitian/future dietitian people should follow each other on tumblr
C’mon, it’ll be fun.
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 doctorswithoutborders:
Afghanistan: Treating Child Malnutrition in Helmand
“She was vomiting and had diarrhea, and she kept losing weight,” says Mariam of her five-month-old granddaughter Nazia. “Her mother just didn’t have enough milk to feed her. We went to a private clinic but they couldn’t help us, and finally we drove here from our home district of Sangin. Nazia is feeling a little better now.”
Nazia, who still has a distended belly and a clearly visible rib cage, is one of the patients in the MSF herapeutic feeding center in Boost hospital in Lashkargah, the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
Boost hospital, where MSF has been working since 2009, is one of only two hospitals in all of southern Afghanistan. Helmand is one of the country’s most war-ravaged provinces, and has seen intense fighting over the past decades. It is home to a largely poor, rural population, even if there are signs of a growing middle class in Lashkargah.
MSF opened its feeding center in December 2011 to tackle the chronic problem of malnutrition among children in Helmand. This specialized unit helps children on the verge of starvation gain weight through assisted feeding.
Photo: An MSF staff member examines a child for malnutrition at Boost hospital.
Afghanistan 2012 © Camille Gillardeau
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 doctorswithoutborders:
Malnutrition in the Sahel: One Million Children Treated, But What’s Next?
In this interview, MSF pediatrician Susan Shepherd and MSF nutrition specialist Stéphane Doyon Discuss the situation in the Sahel Region
One million children suffering from severe malnutrition will be treated this year by governments and aid organizations across the Sahel. How should we interpret this number?
Susan Shepherd: It’s both a failure and a success. The failure is that each year, countries within the Sahel will face recurrent, large-scale nutritional crises that are growing even worse in some countries. One million malnourished children—that’s an enormous figure. But the most important take away from this year is how all of the aid actors—governments, United Nations agencies, and NGOs—have managed the crisis. Because of this, the major success is that for the first time, one million malnourished children will be treated in the Sahel, and the vast majority of these one million children will recover.
Stéphane Doyon: Prior to the 2005 nutrition crisis in Niger, malnourished children didn’t receive treatment and childhood malnutrition was virtually unrecognized. One million malnourished children receiving treatment doesn’t necessarily imply things are getting worse, but rather implies a major step forward in treatment. Improved malnutrition management results in large part from the political will summoned by the governments who wish to tackle this pathology. For the first time since the 2005 nutritional crisis in Niger, the most-affected countries have implemented ambitious response plans for treating malnourished children and establishing early preventive measures. Donors have committed to funding programs for therapeutic foods and nutritional supplements that are adapted to the needs of infants, even if all the funds have not yet been released.
Read the rest of this interview here.
Photo:A mother and her two-year-old await treatment at an MSF Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Center in Niger.
Niger March 2012 © Julie Remy
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