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Nutrition Education involves learning new information on nutrition,
and its relationship and influence on other sectors such as agriculture,
health or environment.
The aims of Nutrition Education are:
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Knowing which sort of problems it might solve and how to use
resources in the most efficient way.
- Helping people to develop new attitudes and confidence that
they need to improve their nutritional habits, and how to feed to
their families.
- Developing, together with the communities, effective educational
strategies and communication channels in order to plan
adequate messages on nutrition.
- Training local key persons, health workers, agricultural
extensionists and other community or project workers for further
promotion of the messages.
- Reaching men and women as receptors of nutritional messages,
women, by themselves, often cannot remove the causes of
nutritional problems.
In the past, nutritional advice was not always practical or appropriate
for the people, since the messages were decided by nutritionists
or health experts of government offices, rather than worked out in
association with the local community.
Many times, educators told people what to do, instead of discussing
with them what they might be able to do.
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