Malnutrition and school feeding programmes
Malnutrition and school feeding programmes is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Journal of Nutritional Health & Food Engineering''. The main subjects of the publication include medicine, food security, feeding disorder, biotechnology, dietary supplement, nutritional epidemiology, environmental health, economic growth, food fortification, malnutrition, and clinical nutrition. Assessing national nutrition status is important due to the concern caused by malnutrition.The present article explores the questions and limitations associated with assessment of nutritional status in a community and the role of national school feeding programme to improve health.Nutritionists have been using for decades biological indicators (anthropometric, biochemical and clinical) and social determinants as essential parameters, in comparison with predetermined standards, but rarely consider that manifestations of nutrition deficiencies may only occur in severe cases and in the future.There is as yet no single effective approach to malnutrition management and it is unlikely that a single delivery system would suit all situations worldwide.Data on the most effective time and type of intervention are still lacking.Throughout decades United Nations initiated many Plans towards fighting hunger and recently for the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030.We set low expectations for the outcome of these international plans since most of the financial investments never fully reach the people in need.The malnutrition situation is worsened by the well-known conflict, socio-economic and climatic shocks, which affect production and access to key resources.Malnutrition and hunger must be tackled from infancy, preferably in programmes gathering the whole community of farmers around each school.We briefly review this complex approach and some positive outcomes.