Yunnan: National Nutrition Week and Student Nutrition Day theme activities launched

On May 18th, the Yunnan Provincial Health and Health Commission, the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau and other departments held the launching ceremony of the 2022 Nutrition Awareness Week at the main venue of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. venue. During the publicity week, various departments in Yunnan Province coordinated and linked up and down to hold the 2022 National Nutrition Week and the “5.20” Chinese Student Nutrition Day theme publicity activities simultaneously with all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country.

The 2022 National Nutrition Week and the “5·20” Chinese Student Nutrition Day theme publicity campaign was launched. Photo by Bai Yucheng

Combined with the National Nutrition Plan of Yunnan Province and the Healthy Yunnan Reasonable Diet Action, Yunnan Province actively organized the first batch of ten nutritious restaurants (canteens), nutritional analysis of top ten Yunnan specialties, and top ten nutritional health Books, top ten nutrition and health websites, ten kinds of reasonable eating habits, and online interpretation by ten nutrition experts, etc. Yunnan Province’s nutrition and health “six ten” series of publicity activities, through the broadcast of nutrition and health knowledge promotional videos, quizzes with prizes, and distribution of publicity Provide products, carry out consultation and answer questions, carry out health monitoring free of charge, publicize food nutrition labels, reasonable diet, “eating and dynamic balance” and other knowledge to the general public, cultivate a healthy lifestyle, and improve the level of nutrition and health.

At the same time, the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission and the Provincial Nutrition Society jointly carried out activities on food safety standards and food nutrition knowledge into schools, communities, enterprises, families, and rural areas, and provided nutrition knowledge on multiple platforms. Propaganda column, push nutrition science propaganda articles. Experts will be organized to conduct on-the-spot lectures and on-site guidance on nutrition knowledge and reasonable diet, and 16 cities and 129 counties and cities in the province will also carry out nutrition and health promotion activities simultaneously.

Rational diet is of great significance to the promotion of national nutrition and health. The survey shows that Yunnan residents have unreasonable diets such as high intake of oil, salt and sugar, low health literacy, low rate of active exercise, low intake of vegetables and fruits, and low intake of aquatic products. Behavior. At the same time, the prevalence of malnutrition in adults, stunted growth in children, and anemia in pregnant women, children, and the elderly are still relatively high, micronutrient deficiencies still exist, and dietary fiber intake is significantly insufficient. The prevalence of hypertension among residents aged 18 and above in Yunnan Province was 24.1%, and the prevalence of diabetes was 7.1%, and the trend was on the rise.

In recent years, the Yunnan Provincial Health and Health Commission has actively promoted the healthy Yunnan reasonable diet action based on meeting the diverse nutritional and health needs of the people: established a training and assessment mechanism for nutrition instructors, and formulated the “Yunnan Provincial Nutrition and Health Restaurant, Canteen Pilot Construction Plan”, set up a provincial-level expert group spearheaded by the health, market supervision, education, civil affairs, sports and other departments to promote the implementation of reasonable diet actions; formulate and publish local standards for food safety, and establish a coverage of food products, Local standard system for various types of Yunnan specialty foods such as dairy products, baked goods, tea industry, and wine. (Bai Yucheng)