Billabong High School arranges Nutrition Seminar for Preschool Parents
Billabong High International School, Malad in association with the Indian Dietetic Association and Cadbury Bournvita conducted a nutrition seminar for the parents and students of its preschool, Kangaroo Kids
- (1888PressRelease) September 01, 2010 - Mumbai - The objective of this seminar was to create awareness on the importance of nutrition and to provide useful insights on a preschooler's nutritional requirement for enhancing the physical and intellectual development of the child.
According to the National Family Health Survey (1992-93), more than half (53%) of children below four years of age were under nourished. In 1998, 29.1% children between 1-5 years of age suffered from moderate and 12.3% from severe under-nutrition and one of the major reasons for this being lack of awareness. 45.9% of India's under-three kids were found underweight as per NFHS - 3, 2005-06.
The awareness seminar highlighted the nutritional requirements of kids in the age group of 1 - 5 years and the various dietary ingredients which can help the overall growth and development among children. The parents were asked to fill a form with details regarding their child's diet, height, weight and age, the information was analyzed and basis the same a personalized diet regime was shared with them.
The seminar was conducted by Mrs. Priya Kathpal, a Clinical and Sport nutritionist from IDA, one of the largest bodies in India of dietitians. Sharing her insights on nutritional requirements for kids, Mrs. Kathpal said, "As preschool-aged children go through remarkable physical changes of all kinds, their food intake becomes a critical aspect of this growth and development; 75% of the total brain development occurs between 6 months - 5 years. Recent research shows that nourishing food not only makes a child healthier, it makes him emotionally more stable, and it improves school performance. It is up to the parents to, first of all, be clever about insinuating nutritious foods into the family menus and, secondly, take a reasonable but hard line when other approaches fail. To make sure that they are successful in doing so they need to be aware of the nutrient
requirements of the child and that is exactly what the seminar aimed at."
Manju Borkar, Principal of Billabong High International School, Malad, said "We feel it is imperative for the parents to be aware of the nutritional requirements of children especially of younger children where nutrition plays a critical role in the child's development across facets. The seminar was very useful and enlightening and the parents were very appreciative of it; they were particularly enthusiastic to receive the personalized nutritional diet chart for each child."
The seminar will also highlight the anxiety in parents related to food likes, dislikes and requirements which change on continuous basis among preschool and toddlers. Understanding that these changes are a normal part of development, and understanding the nutritional requirements for this age group, will help parents make educated decisions.
About Billabong High International School -
After developing unique and successful learning systems for preschool children, Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd (KKEL) devised learning systems for Primary School [Grade 1-4], Middle School [Grade 5-8] and High School [Grade 9-12] under the brand name of Billabong High International School. It offers any one or all three ICSE, CBSE and IGCSE boards across its schools. The most important difference about Billabong High lies in the theoretical underpinnings of the way we help children learn as opposed to teaching them. Billabong High shares a sister association with Billanook College, Australia for Sharing of educational resources; Student and staff exchange between the two institutions; to raise the bar for quality of education. Billabong High International School has been acknowledged as among the Top 5 international schools in India on the parameters of parental involvement, admission transparency in the Education World-C fore Survey of Schools 2009.
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