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Caracas.- Coping with and raising awareness of nutrition issues and imbalances present in the world are some of the main objectives of the celebration of Food Day, whose origin followed the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The celebration of World Food Day was promoted by the FAOwith the primary purpose of reduce world hungera purpose that it maintains to this day, hoping to reach the goal of “zero hunger” by the year 2030.
The FAO was created in 1945, but it was not until the year 1979 whenin one of the general meetings of the organization, the idea of the worldwide celebration was suggested of this very significant day, designated every October 16, within the framework of the creation of the organization that promotes it.
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However, Venezuela has celebrated the anniversary since before its global designation, since 1951, when the anniversary of the National Institute of Nutrition was commemorated, created by Rómulo Gallegos two years earlier. Since then Venezuela celebrates Food Day on November 18 every year.
Once the celebration begins in the country, traditionally the week close to that date is taken to promote good eating habits in society.
Food Day: educate from schools
As explained on the website My Son’s Lunch Boxthe applicability of campaigns to promote healthy lifestyle habits focuses especially in school-age childrensince “during the first years of life, people are more likely to incorporate new habits than during adulthood”, so the promotion of a balanced and healthy diet is usually more effective in the puerile public.
Los educational institutes develop a fundamental role in promoting habits healthy eating habits, therefore, it is advisable to carry out activities that strengthen the importance of these good practices.
Ideas to celebrate the day of food at school
- Create billboards, stories and/or exhibitions alluding to food and the importance of good nutrition in children.
- Play a game to learn about the healthy eating pyramid.
- Reinforce the contents about the nutritional groups and the appropriate proportion of each type of food.
- Do a cold cooking workshop.
- Organize a recipe tasting with the families.
- Promote the creation of a scholar Orchard, to be possible.
- Use the home sprouter strategy to teach children some planting methods.
- If you already have a school garden, use the harvested food to teach about the importance of food hygiene for good health and during the preparation of simple meals within the school.
- Talks about healthy eating with families.
- Carry out a food collection to donate to an institution in charge of favored unprotected communities.
- Hold debates where the importance of family farms or any other topic in world nutrition is discussed.
- Work on the FAO material for World Food Day.
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leave no one behind
annually, the FAO focuses on a motto with the aim of renewing and spread the World Food Day campaign. In 2022, the designated phrase is “Leave no one behind.”
Although progress has been made in building a better world, too many people have been left behind. Today the world produces enough food to feed everyone, but millions of people continue to suffer from hunger or malnutrition,” FAO explained in its activity book 2022.
In this document, he explains that for 3.1 billion people, who represent For 40% of the world’s population, a healthy diet is “too expensive”. In addition, the agency specifies that a large amount of food is also wasted before it reaches the market.
“Around the world, More than 80% of the people who are in extreme poverty they live in rural areas and many depend on agriculture and natural resources to live. They are usually the most affected by natural disasters”, added the FAO when expressing the motto of this 2022.
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