The Eastern Regional Nutrition officer, Mrs. Rhoderlyn Adda Kyei-Amoah has revealed that, there are high rate of recorded cases of obesity among young children in the region due to much of fat foods offered to them.
This, according to her, when this happens concurrent, it predisposes them to lot of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney diseases and many more.
Mrs. Adda Kyei-Amoah continue that going forward, they are looking at improving the nutritional status of all persons in general including men, women, children and the aged.
“Most of our service delivery, we do often forget the aged but our national headquarters is working things out, so that we can take care of the nutritional services to the general public” she said.
Mrs. Adda Kyei-Amoah made these known to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during their 2021 quarter yearly presentation on the status of kids nutritional foods programme that was collaborated with KOKO Plus Foundation in Koforidua.
The Dean of School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana who also doubles as a member of KOKO Plus Foundation, Professor Kwaku Tano-Debrah said, their research conducted indicated that, foods mothers or parents give to their children after six (6) months does not contain any food supplement.
He explained that, the food nutrient in porridge or tom-brown which parents normally give to their children after six months is not enough which doesn’t help them growing up.
Professor Tano-Debrah then urged parents to add some food supplement to their kids diet because it contains many food nutrient such as carbohydrates, vitamins, irons, protein and the likes which enhances them to grownup well without falling sick anyhow.
Furthermore, the eastern regional Public Care of Nurse, Mrs. Ellen Darkowaa Asare advised parents (mothers) not to add water nor porridge to their children’s diet for the first 6 months when breastfeeding them.
She stressed, the breast milk contains its natural food nutrient. Hence, the need for every parents to take note is necessary.
However, Mrs. Darkowaa Asare noted that, they are still educating parents to know how importance the breast milk is,’ so that when they get pregnant and delivered in the first 30mins they will put their newly born babies on breast and breastfeed them.
Source// Obohnews.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
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