THIS newspaper on Wednesday reported that over 170 countries made a number of concrete commitments and adopted a series of recommendations on policies and investments aimed at ensuring that all people have access to healthier and more sustainable diets, leading to decreasing malnutrition.
According to the report, Ministers and senior officials responsible for health, food or agriculture and other aspects of nutrition adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and a Framework for Action, which set out recommendations for policies and programmes to address nutrition across multiple sectors. The move came at the opening, in Rome, of the Second International Conference on Nutrition organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Rome Declaration on Nutrition enshrines the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, and induces the governments preventing malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity. The United Nations assured the nations that they would have UN’s support in helping them fulfil their commitments of decreasing malnutrition.
A resolution such as this, if strictly followed by world leaders, could mean that starvation as well as malnutrition would decrease in exponential figures. Families with young children would have a healthier future where healthy children would have the literal opportunity to avoid the onset of significant health complications, have better immune systems and eventually be productive members of their respective nation. The productivity of healthy citizens would lead to better contribution in their economies as well leave a positive effect on the global economy as a whole. Unfortunately our leaders are too uncaring to even ensure that our citizens have access to safe and healthy food which is free of toxins — hence formalin and other poisonous ingredients are regularly added by our wholesalers to ensure that products look good — but they are slowly poisoning over children in the long run. Simple steps like building refrigerated warehouses and fixing roads would have solved this problem — but the solutions are completely ignored by the administration.
According to the report, Ministers and senior officials responsible for health, food or agriculture and other aspects of nutrition adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and a Framework for Action, which set out recommendations for policies and programmes to address nutrition across multiple sectors. The move came at the opening, in Rome, of the Second International Conference on Nutrition organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Rome Declaration on Nutrition enshrines the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, and induces the governments preventing malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity. The United Nations assured the nations that they would have UN’s support in helping them fulfil their commitments of decreasing malnutrition.
A resolution such as this, if strictly followed by world leaders, could mean that starvation as well as malnutrition would decrease in exponential figures. Families with young children would have a healthier future where healthy children would have the literal opportunity to avoid the onset of significant health complications, have better immune systems and eventually be productive members of their respective nation. The productivity of healthy citizens would lead to better contribution in their economies as well leave a positive effect on the global economy as a whole. Unfortunately our leaders are too uncaring to even ensure that our citizens have access to safe and healthy food which is free of toxins — hence formalin and other poisonous ingredients are regularly added by our wholesalers to ensure that products look good — but they are slowly poisoning over children in the long run. Simple steps like building refrigerated warehouses and fixing roads would have solved this problem — but the solutions are completely ignored by the administration.
