A new breakthrough in nutrition improvement for children in poor areas: anaemia rates have fallen by 40%.

data show that due to the imbalance and lack of nutrition, children in poor areas of China have stunted growth and even disease. To improve the situation, in 2012 the Chinese Nutrition Society, the Global Fund for Child Nutrition, in cooperation with Tang Chenbijian and brand public welfare ambassador Yao Ming launched the "School-age Children's Nutrition Improvement Project in Poor Areas of China." On May 20, the results of the Nutrition Improvement Project for School-age Children in Poor Areas of China were officially released. The report shows that through the three-year period of three years of three-year instalments of primary school students in different poor areas of nutrition education and the consumption of Tangchen python "nutrition package" double nutritional intervention, the participants in the project's nutritional health improved significantly, especially in iron deficiency anemia rate, growth rate, height growth improved significantly.Nnutrition: an insurmountable gap for children in poor areas At present, the problem of food and clothing in poor areas has been solved, but the quality of meals still needs to be improved, especially as the proportion of children left behind in rural areas increases and the improvement of children's diets in poor areas is slow, especially with inadequate intake of nutrients such as protein, vitamin A, calcium and iron. According to the China Child and Adolescent Nutrition and Health Report 2013, about 12 million students aged 7 to 15 in rural China are anaemic and 18 million are underweight and malnourished.Nourishment can lead to growth retardation and low body weight, anaemia will irreversibly affect the physical and intellectual development of adolescents, multivitamins, trace element deficiency, resulting in weight loss, growth retardation, decreased body immunity, etc.," said Yan Fengying, executive vice president of the Chinese Nutrition Society, the choice of effective nutrition interventions to improve the quality of diet for poor rural children, which can effectively improve the nutritional status of rural children, which is an important and urgent national need.. Yan Fengying, Executive Vice President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, went to the target school of the project for a mid-term visit In 2012, the Nutrition Improvement Project for School-age Children in Poor Areas of China was officially implemented. Among them, the Chinese Nutrition Society, according to the nutritional status of school-age children in poor areas of China, determine the formula of nutrition packages, etc.;The project lasted three years and randomly selected 18 primary schools from six poor counties in Guangdong, Hubei and Hebei provinces to "nutrition package" interventions for 6,500 students aged 6-12, and to help them improve nutritional imbalances and promote healthy development.
. The project team conducted a baseline survey in target schools nutritical interventions: significant reductions in child anaemia, wasting rates, etc. said Mr. Yin said, based on improving malnutrition in poor areas and taking into account the costs and effects of interventions and further expanding the scale of implementation in the future, we believe that the "nutrition package" developed, designed and produced for the purpose of "what is missing complements" is a safe and practical rural child nutrition intervention method.report shows that, through scientific nutrition interventions, children in poor areas covered by the project have achieved significant improvements in nutritional indicators such as anaemia, wasting and growth retardation.Among them, the anaemia rate of school students in Guangdong region decreased from more than 70% to less than 30%, which is the province with the most obvious improvement in anaemia in the three provinces; In addition, for the growth retardation rate and wasting rate, the index of school students who had nutritional intervention decreased significantly, including 40% in Guangdong and 33% in Hebei, while the prevalence rate of students in Guangdong improved significantly, and the rate decreased by 48% in Guangdong.the results show that the "nutrition package", combined with the necessary nutrition education, is an effective way to improve the nutritional status of children in poor areas. "Nutrition pack" can effectively improve the intake of protein, iron, vitamin A and other nutrients in school-age children in poor areas.. The Chinese Nutrition Society and the Global Fund for Child Nutrition conducted a study on the nutrition improvement project for school-age children in poor areas at target schools in Guangdong "Nutrition Pack": or model nutrition improvement for rural school-age children Yang Ming, director of the project at the Center for Nutrition and Health Research in Tangchen, believes that the main reason for the lack of nutrition among children in poor areas is the low household income, single dietary structure, and the daily consumption of rice porridge, rice, home-produced vegetables and pickles as the main food, meat, eggs and pickles. At the same time, the low level of parental education in rural areas, coupled with the increase in the number of young and middle-income children left behind, makes it difficult for poor rural families to provide good care and meals for children, a situation that is very detrimental to the nutritional status of rural children.experts believe that the Nutrition Improvement Project for School-age Children in Poor Areas of China confirms the feasibility of providing nutrition packages and nutrition education for school-age children in poor areas to improve their health, and has become a model for nutrition improvement for school-age children in rural areas, providing a good idea and direction for solving the problem of malnutrition among children in poor areas. At the same time, the project sponsors also called for more people to join the ranks of children in poor areas to care for the improvement of nutrition, widely mobilize social forces to jointly promote the healthy growth of children in poor areas..