Social Sector/Services

Fundamentals of Healthy Eating for Young Ones

The most important aspect of child growth is nutrition. These dietary practices are important and should be observed:

-Vegetables and Fruits: Motivate intake of prepared and unprocessed fruits and vegetables of different colors on a daily basis as they supply the body with essential vitamins and minerals.
-Wheat Products: Opt for bread, pasta, and rice made of brown grain as these contain the right amount of fiber as compared to the use of white grain products.
-Lean Proteins: Foods such as legumes, lean meats, fish, chicken eggs, and others help in the building as well as the repairing of the muscles.
-Dairy Products: Foods such as milk, cheese and yogurt are supplied to provide calcium and vitamin D to the body.
-Limit Sugary Drinks and Processed Foods: Limit intake of soft drinks, sweets and junk food vastly.
-Hydration: Water ought to be taken at regular intervals and throughout the day.
-Regulation of Meal and Snack Time Intervals: Scheduling of meals and snacks is essential to manage hunger levels.

Encourage children to choose food- Involve children in the selection and preparation of food to help them develop healthy eating patterns.

These guidelines have the enduring effect and children get into the habit of healthful eating with ease.

Assessment of the possible advantages and risks associated with Genetic Manipulation and CRISPR technology.

Benefits:

Treatment and Prevention of Diseases: Advances in the recently developed editing technology CRISPR offer hope for curing diseases with genetic origins such as Cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s disease or even sickle cell anemia. It can go further to aid invention of vaccines and drugs for other diseases caused by microorganisms.
Higher Yield Crops: Transgenic plants can be designed to resist pests, diseases and other harsh environmental conditions, hence ensuring higher food production.
Healthier Foods: Crops can be modified to contain more nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

But there are also drawbacks:

-Gene Therapy: There may be risks involved with facing carrying out these therapies with mutations that occur which are not sought or even other transgenes in other species.

-Ethical Concerns: There are worries associated with excessive gynephilia in the debates over genetic enhancement- concerns especially around genetic modifications for creating ‘perfect’ beings.

-Effect on the Ecosystem: The release of genetically engineered organisms can interact and transform the existing ecosystems, often leading to negative consequences like weeds that are resistant to the herbicide or the loss of helpful insect populations.

-Health Care Disparities: Even new genetic technologies can have uneven access, which creates inequities in health and welfare.

It becomes imperative, therefore, to evaluate both the potential and the dangers involved in the application of genetic engineering and CRISPR technology. It is crucial not to lose sight of principles and urgency of the existing possibilities and, thus, ethical normative frameworks and legal bans where applicable must be conceived.

One essential aspect of health is the implementation of public health policies as they assist in curtailing the spread of infectious diseases by exploring the avenues which may transmit the disease as well as enhancing the health of the people or given population. These include;

-Vaccination Programs: The vast vaccination programs, aimed at providing herd immunity against measles, polio and flu as well as other diseases.
-Sanitation and Hygiene: By providing access to clean water, proper sanitation and hygiene to prevent the transmission of water and faeces related diseases.
-Development of Surveillance and Monitoring: Building up of appropriate control and monitoring systems to keep trace of infectious disease outbreaks and therefore initiate control measures early enough.
-Diseases Control through Isolation/Quarantine: Containment or control of outbreak of infections through quarantine and isolation of the identified infected persons.
-Health Policy’s Contextualization: Introduce health policies seeking to coordinate national practices on health, within a global spectrum, to avoid any possibilities of trans-boundary diseases.
-Public Health Education: Awareness campaigns to the public on management of the disease, its prevention, and the administration of the vaccines.

With respect to enhancing Nation’s health policy, certain strategies for improvement include the following;

-Strength of Health Systems: Preparedness and response by strengthening the health system components of infrastructure, human resources and research.
-Intersectoral Collaboration: Build relationships between the health sector and those responsible for social determinants of health including education and work in order to promote equity and lessen health differences.
-Empowerment of Communities: Enhancing their involvement, where they are encouraged to take an active role in policy formulation concerning health and actual health practices, where they stand to gain.
-Policy Change: Sustaining the present scientific knowledge and modifying them when necessary to cope with new communicable diseases and resistance to antimicrobial agents.

– Equity Focused: Equipping every individual with the necessary health services and resources without regard to their location or social class.

This may be particularly true regarding the burden of infectious diseases which can be greatly reduced through the introduction of adequate public health measures and controlling the socioeconomic conditions which promote the disease.

The use of technology or engineering is experienced in the food industry in several ways. It entails methods that are directed towards enhancing the product, safety and eventually the consumption of food in all aspects. Here are the main objectives of food science technology.

1. Food Preservation:

What is food waste technology? For instance, it is the application of canning, freezing and other means apart from drying to enhance the safe shelf extensions of perishables. Apart from the utmost importance in preventing food spoilage, and increasing the vol and taste of the food.

Reducing Infestation/ Microbiology of Food: This aspect of food technology prevents any biological, chemical or physical hazards to the final food product by promoting a clean environment and use of modern techniques like sterilization and pastuerization.

3. Food Processing:
Food processing techniques enable the food products to be of impressive quality: Food processing methods like milling, grinding and mixing improve the quality, flavor and appearance of the food products.

Value Addition: Raw materials are converted into processed goods of varying shapes such as processed meat, tin vegetables, baked…

Food technology advancement: New Technology in Food Products: New Food Products such as functional food, vegetarian food, and non-dairy meat are being created by Food Technologists.

Product Improvement: Improvements in all elements of existing food products as improvements over older versions due to constant research and development are made.

5. Sustainable Food Ageing:

Reducing Waste: With time as food engineering is improving thanks packaging, storage and distribution it will develop more food that will not be wasted.
Environmentally Friendly Farming: In as much as food technology has aided the quest for better farming practices it has also helped create more innovative non harmful methods of farming.

Food technology, therefore, provides a solution to and fulfills the modern world’s demand for safe, healthy, and enough food supply to its population.’