25-31
POSSIBLE AREAS TO COVER IN A NUTRITION COURSE-
BASED ON SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM PROBLEM SOLVING:
Emergency problems
• starving3 children
• poorest families lack
food
• parents do not give
sick children enough
liquid or food (starving
the sick)
• natural disasters
Emergency measures
• food supplements
• centers for feeding
malnourished children
• oral rehydration
• full, normal feeding for
children with diarrhea or
other illness
Major problems
• underweight children
• loss of healthy
customs (such as
breast feeding)
• certain unhealthy
• or mistaken customs
(new and old)
• lack of knowledge
about healthy foods
Solutions to major problems
• under-fives clinics
• baby weighing
• nutrition classes for
mothers
• CHI LD-to-child activities
• child spacing
• better eati3ng habits
• looking for what is best in
both old and new ways
Ongoing needs
• more and better
foods
• greater self-
reliance
• fairer distribution
of land and
resources
Underlying needs
• equal opportunity
for everyone
• more control by
people over their
lives and their
health
• honest leaders
• social justice
Partial solutions
• family gardens
• improved farming
methods
• improved storage
• food crops, not cash
crops
• mothers and children as
nutrition workers
• more jobs (cottage
industry, etc.)
• rotating loan program
allowing poor families to
buy their own land
(see story,
p. 26-36)
Toward long-term solutions
• raising awareness
• community organization
• change toward people-
supportive government
• redistribution of land
• relevant education
• fairer wages
• restriction on advertising
and profiteering by big
bu siness
• fairer representation and
bargaining power for the
poor