Child Development and Public Health
The topic I chose is Nutrition/Malnutrition. I chose this topic because I believe nutrition is essential in a child growth and development. I think nutrition should be taken more serious than what it is. I believe every child should have access to food and should never go hungry. I think our government should have more programs available to parents to ensure that children do not go hungry. In working with children for so long I have seen too many cases where children and not given the proper nutrition or have gone days with eating little to nothing. It is heartbreaking to see a child hungry at no fault of theirs. Especially the younger ones who can't speak or defend themselves.
Malnutrition at an early age leads to reduced physical and mental development during childhood. Stunting, for example, affects more than 147 million pre-schoolers in developing countries, according to SCN's World Nutrition Situation 5th report. Iodine deficiency, the same report shows, is the world's greatest single cause of mental retardation and brain damage.
I researched Japan because I lived there for four years. Japan is one of the healthies countries. It is not common to see someone overweight. So there is not a malnutrition problem but I chose this country because I think the United States and other countries could follow in thier footsteps to help reduce hunger and the obesity problem our country has with our children. Good nutritions begins at an early age and when children go to school it continues. Fresh meals are cooked and served. Nothing is frozed or premade. Children get a variety of fruits and veggies and exercise is part of their curriculum. Japan has fields almost anywhere you go where the locals grow vegtable and fruits and these are used in the schools for meals as well.
In the United States meals that are served at school are sometimes the only meals a child get during the day and I think it should be a priority for our schools to make and serve fresh healthy meals. As for the future, I have become are part of a group that is supports and is fighting to bring back into our schools healthy meals.
I researched Japan because I lived there for four years. Japan is one of the healthies countries. It is not common to see someone overweight. So there is not a malnutrition problem but I chose this country because I think the United States and other countries could follow in thier footsteps to help reduce hunger and the obesity problem our country has with our children. Good nutritions begins at an early age and when children go to school it continues. Fresh meals are cooked and served. Nothing is frozed or premade. Children get a variety of fruits and veggies and exercise is part of their curriculum. Japan has fields almost anywhere you go where the locals grow vegtable and fruits and these are used in the schools for meals as well.
In the United States meals that are served at school are sometimes the only meals a child get during the day and I think it should be a priority for our schools to make and serve fresh healthy meals. As for the future, I have become are part of a group that is supports and is fighting to bring back into our schools healthy meals.
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