Maria and Moses: Champions of Nutrition
Learner's Nutrition Comic Book
Highlights
The story is about ten year old twins Moses and Maria. While at school, they learn about many things and share the information with their parents and other community members. They also practice what they learn. They are champions of nutrition.
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Nutrition - An overview
Among children below five years in Uganda, three out of ten are short for their
age (stunted), one out of ten have a low weight for their age (underweight), five out of ten do not have enough blood (anaemic), one out of ten have vitamin A deficiency (VAD) while one in every 25 are overweight (UDHS, 2016).
A child with the conditions above, is malnourished. The consequences of poor nutrition for school going children include; delay in enrollment, absenteeism, lack of concentration and poor performance in class, increased school dropouts, bad temper and other negative consequences.
For a child to be healthy and learn well, he/she must have good nutrition.
Nutrition is the science of food and how the body uses this food to perform its functions. The food can be obtained from the garden, bought or received as a donation and has to be well prepared and eaten for the body to utilise it properly.
It is therefore important for all children and older people to eat a variety of foods in the right amounts, live and practice healthy lifestyles as well as get timely treatment from a healthy facility when sick.
