Basseterre, St. Kitts (March 23, 2004): An official in the Health Promotion Unit has adjudged the inaugural Nutrition Week a healthy success.
In speaking with the St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service, it was noted that highlights of the week including the Half Day Seminar for Diabetics and Hypertensives went rather well judging from the attendance as well as the interest demonstrated by participation.
She enthused that the Nutrition Open Day was a resounding success with its vegetable stalls, dishes to sample and the Body Mass Index assessment. She took the opportunity to encourage other individuals and entities to come on board to make next year’s Nutrition Open Day an even greater success.
Tag Day, as well, achieved its objective of heightening awareness of Nutrition Week and encouraging persons in the general public to “Eat Right, Eat Healthy.”
The health official did note that the one activity that could have bourne improvement was the Dietary Counseling Day.
On that day members of the general public were invited to go in to the Health Promotion Unit and get personalised advise on nutrition tailored to their specific health requirements. She informed that only a few persons went to the unit to access the free nutrition advise.
This is something she said the staff would try to work on to generate much more public interest next year.
The Health Promotion Unit of the Ministry of Health would also like to thank the following contributors to Nutrition Week: The Evangelical Association, the Christian Council, the Public Library, Rams Trading Ltd., O.D. Brisbane and Company Ltd., Carib Crafts and Graphics, Oasis Studio, Cetecom Digital Studio and Scotia Bank.
Other donors included the factories at the C.A. Paul Industrial Site, the Agriculture Department, the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport, Gender Affairs, the Ministry of Education, ZIZ Radio and Television, WINN FM and Sugar City Rock.
Special gratitude was also extended to the general public whose support enabled the inaugural Nutrition Week to be the success that it was.
