Week 2 Blog
I choose Nutrition/ Malnutrition
This is
meaningful to me cause is really makes me sad that there are children throughout
the world even here in the United states who are going to bed hungry and
without the proper nutrition. Proper nutrition is important in order for
children to grow and obtain a healthy height and weight, this also make it
easier for children to concentrate in school which is very important in our
field of study. Kids most important years are from birth to age 5 Good
nutrition is important during childhood because this is the time period when
lifelong habits are formed.
There are so many countries that I found where there children were badly
malnutriotioned. I was really saddened when I read an article those Third World
countries nutrition problems affects over9500 million people and kills 10
million every year. Kids who are poorly
nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness, magnifies the effect of diseases
and stunt children growth. Under-nutrition pregnant women are the highest
leading reason for low birth weight. This is not only a risk factor for
neonatal deaths, but also causes learning disabilities, mental, retardation,
poor health, blindness and premature death.I think this will impact my work in the future in many ways. I will make sure children in my care have a healthy and nutritionist meal for breakfast, lunch and all snack. I will make sure my teachers also show well eating habits. Making learning about nutrition fun that way children will remember and try to practice what they have learn. I will make sure we have a healthy activity week where we not only learn about healthy foods but also how to keep our body healthy from getting immuniasations. To playing sports and keeping active.
Here is a lot
of important information helping to fight malnutrion over seas
Thanks Sandi for your wonderful post. I was very surprised that malnutrition children will experience 160 days of illness. That is almost half of a year! I was also surprised by the graph. I would of guessed that children in Africa suffered the most, but Asia and the Pacific do, by much more. Thank you for keeping me informed on this topic.
ReplyDeletenice post. One way to ensure good nutrition is to advocate for at least 6 months of breastfeeding for newborns. Breast milk has all the nuttrients and antibodies the child needs. I t is sterile and digestible.
ReplyDeleteRickets is something that always bothered me in this country. How a child could become bow legged for the rest of their life because the nutrition was not there.
ReplyDeleteNutrition is always something that bothered me also. It was said to me many years ago if all the change was collected that we threw on the ground no one would ever be hungry. Great Post
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ReplyDeleteI also picked nutrition as my topic of choice for the blog this week. I sponsor a child in Haiti through World Vision and can not believe the informaiton I have learned about malnutrition and hungry all around the world. As a preschool educator, I am going to incorporate nutritional activities and lessons into the learning taking place in my classroom. Therefore, maybe the children in my care will at least learn at school even if they are unable to learn such information at home.
Hello Sandi nutrition is a great topic based on the fact in the early childhood field it is very important for children to eat healthy. There are alot of children around the world who suffer from maltrition, so it is our responsibility as educators to make sure that we educate people about eating healthy inside and outside of the classroom.
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