Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

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Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

Digest No. 1177

19 June 2015

Discussion 116

 

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What are Latin American countries doing to tackle the double burden of malnutrition effectively?

until 2 July 2015

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Dear Members,

We are happy to share with you the first three comments received for the new online discussion "What are Latin American countries doing to tackle the double burden of malnutrition effectively?"

Rubén Grajeda, Senior Advisor in Nutrition and Social Determinants at the Pan American Health Organization and facilitator of this exchange, invites you to discuss how nutrition problems are being dealt with in your countries and to reflect on ways to effectively prevent all forms of malnutrition. He also invites you to suggest how nutrition education can better play its important role in addressing this challenge.

Please read the short summaries of the first comments and a message form the facilitator below. The full comments and the introduction the discussion are available on the Forum website.

We look forward to keep receiving your thoughts on this challenging topic.

Your FSN Forum Team

 

iconRuben Grajeda Toledo, facilitator of the discussion

Dear colleagues,

As a welcome to the forum I would like to share with you the Plan of action for the prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence, endorsed by the Ministers of Health of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in the 53 meeting of the Governing Board of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) held in September 2014.

Anna Antwi

www.paho.org/nutricionydesarrollo/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Plan-de-Accion-para-la-Prevencion-de-la-Obesidad-en-la-Ninez-y-la-Adolescencia.pdf

The plan aims to stop the increase of obesity epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean. It proposes measures aimed at transforming the obesogenic environment and increasing nutritious food consumption and physical activity through the simultaneous and coordinated implementation of five action lines: a) primary health care and promotion of breastfeeding and healthy food; b) environment improvement in schools with respect to nutrition and physical activity; c) tax policies and regulation of food advertising, promotion and labelling; d) other multisectoral measures; e) monitoring, research and evaluation.

The plan is based on the best available evidence and the experience of several countries in the region including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, United States and Uruguay. Undoubtedly, the integrated and coordinated implementation of the plan’s lines of action allows addressing undernutrition in all its forms.

What do you think?

 

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iconMoises David Rojas Peña, Dominican Republic

Moisés comments on the nutritional situation in the Dominican Republic. He also mentions initiatives and polices in his country that aim at mitigating malnutrition, including a national school meals programme. Moisés also highlights the necessity to put in place preventive activities such as the promotion of healthy food habits. [...]

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iconGilberto Jose Herrera Chavarria, FAO, El Salvador

Gilberto José Herrera Chavarría shares his experience from El Salvador. Here and nutrient deficiency problems are addressed in public health facilities. He also see the promotion of a healthy lifestyle as necessary, including growing food at home, organically and ecologically. [...]

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iconLal Manavado, University of Oslo affiliate, Norway

Lal Manavado highlights the need to include nutrition into the educational process from the earliest age possible. This would help increase the capacity of people to resist the lure of heavily marketed unhealthy products. Lal also mentions that local agricultural production needs to be driven more by the nutritional necessities of the population rather than by economic considerations alone. [...]

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