Family Nutrition Guide
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The Family Nutrition Guide is a practical guide that aims to improve the feeding and nutrition of families in developing countries. It is primarily written for health workers, nutritionists, agricultural extensionists or other development workers who design nutrition education materials and activities and work with people at community level. It should also be useful to mothers or other caregivers who want to know more about family feeding, as well as anyone training health staff and other community-level workers. The guide is divided into 11 topics that cover basic nutrition, family food security, meal planning, food hygiene and the special feeding needs of children, women and men, and of old, sick and malnourished people. Each topic provides a summary of up-to-date technical nutrition facts that can be used to prepare various nutrition education activities and materials: face-to-face education sessions with families and other community-level groups; nutrition education print material or material for other media (such as radio talks); or training material for staff in different sectors who deal with family nutrition. The nutrition facts of each topic are complemented by communication suggestions for people working directly with families and community groups. These suggestions describe the steps needed to prepare an education session, encourage participation and make the session more fun.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
An intergovernmental organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.Founded in 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO provides a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The Organization publishes authoritative publications on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition.
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Family Nutrition Guide - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Introduction
A. ABOUT THE GUIDE
This guide is for everyone who wants to improve the feeding and nutrition of families in developing countries. It is for you if you are a health worker, nutritionist, agricultural extension worker or any other kind of development worker. It is for you if you are a member of a community group or a mother or other caregiver who wants to know more about family feeding. It might also be useful to anyone training health staff and community workers.
If you do not have a basic knowledge of nutrition and feel uncomfortable dealing with some technical parts of the guide, we suggest that you team up with local professionals so they can give you help when you need it.
The purpose of the guide is to:
provide the information needed to prepare good, nutritious and safe meals and feed each member of the family well;
motivate people to adopt healthy eating habits.
The guide is divided into 11 topics that cover basic nutrition, family food security, meal planning, food hygiene and the special feeding needs of children, women and men, and of old, sick and malnourished people. Each Topic is set out in the same way and has two parts: Nutrition notes and Sharing this information.
The Nutrition notes summarizes up-to-date knowledge on each topic. These can be used to prepare:
face-to-face education sessions with families and other community-level groups (including teachers, care workers, traditional health workers, etc.);
nutrition education print materials (such as booklets, brochures, flyers, posters) or material for other media (such as radio talks);
training materials for different levels of staff in different sectors who deal with family nutrition.
You may also find them useful to update your own and perhaps your colleagues’ nutrition knowledge.
Sharing the information is for people working directly with families and community groups. It describes the steps needed to prepare an education session. These steps are: finding out the community’s present nutritional situation and knowledge; deciding what information to share and with whom to share it; and choosing communication methods. This part also gives some Examples of questions to start a discussion which may help to encourage participation and make the session more fun.
Key messages appear throughout the Nutrition notes and summarize important points being made in the text.You may use them as ‘talking points’ or guidelines for structuring a nutrition education session.
The book contains a glossary and three appendixes covering sources of nutrients in foods, energy and nutrient needs, and additional sources of information.
Before using the guide, it is important to adapt the nutrition information to the local area where it will be used. We suggest how to do this in Section B.
B. USING AND ADAPTING THE GUIDE
Diets and eating habits vary from place to place. Families in different areas eat different foods and cook in a variety of ways. They live in different regions where the type and amount of food available can differ considerably. They have different beliefs about foods and how to feed their children. The amount of money, time and other resources they have varies and this affects what they eat. Families differ in what they know about nutrition and they obtain information about nutrition in different ways. Since this guide is written in a ‘general’ manner and does not reflect a specific country, part of its technical information will always need to be adapted so that it is suitable for the areas where it will be used. This will also enrich the guide with local knowledge and experiences. Such adaptation can be seen as regular preparation for the use of the guide and specific guidelines for this process are given