The Family Affairs Department at the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs organised over a month and a half, an awareness programme on proper nutrition for children in 24 nurseries, in cooperation with Diet Delights Nutrition Center.
The programme aims to give importance to proper and healthy nutrition for children, the importance of breakfast at a young age for its role in ensuring the basic nutritional needs of the brain and methods of child care through medical follow ups.
The programme touched on the basic nutritional factors that must be available for breakfast to ensure the children’s activity, concentration and protect them from fatigue. The programme also discussed regulating insulin levels in the blood and its importance to help in correct development as well as the importance of including carbohydrates in meals to extend the body with energy. In addition to the importance of including vegetables as it is considered an important source of fibers and vitamins and the importance of dairy products.
This program comes part of the department’s plan regarding early childhood stages.
