Family Nutrition 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.

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last updated:  Sunday, April 10, 2011