Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health. A healthy diet throughout life promotes healthy pregnancy outcomes, supports normal growth, development and ageing, helps to maintain a healthy body weight, and reduces the risk of chronic disease leading to overall health and well-being.
No doubt that strengthening nutrition interventions within the health sector remains vital to the attainment of Universal Health Coverage:
- Micronutrient supplementation and other nutrition interventions for women of reproductive age and adolescent girl
- Breastfeeding promotion and appropriate complementary feeding
- Vitamin A supplementation for children 6 to 59 months of age and pregnant/lactating women
- Zinc supplementation for children under 5 years
- Micronutrient powders for point of use fortification in 6 to 23 months and children 2 to 12 years
- Deworming for preschool and school children, and women of reproductive age including adolescent girls
- Management of moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children, and pregnant and lactating women
- Nutrition interventions for people living with HIV and/or tuberculosis
- WASH interventions delivered through health system platforms
- Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programmes