All have a role to play in good nutrition at schools – NationNews Barbados — nationnews.com

All have a role to play in good nutrition at schools – NationNews Barbados — nationnews.com

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BARVEN president Alister Alexander. (FILE) – (FP)

President of the Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN), Alister Alexander, mentioned the burden to offer wholesome meals for college kids shouldn’t fall on distributors alone.

“You must additionally take care of importations like what’s being imported and what they [students] are in a position to entry earlier than they arrive to highschool like supermarkets and retail locations. It can be a hole-in-the-basket coverage if in case you have a state of affairs the place you can not entry this stuff in any respect from college however they will nonetheless entry them freely some other place,” he mentioned.

His feedback got here following the tackle by Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Kay McConney, on the Mount of Praise Wesleyan Holiness Church in Tudor Bridge, St Michael, on Monday.

All have a role to play in good nutrition at schools
Some of the lecturers and college students who attended a church service to mark the beginning of Education Month. (Picture by Lennox Devonish)

She mentioned Government was implementing its National Nutritional Policy for Schools and distributors have been important in the event that they hope to curb the variety of Barbadians who die yearly of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

“Those who run concessions in our faculties, those that function canteens, those that are our distributors in and across the premises of our faculties, we wish you to affix us in that effort. I need everybody single one in all you in right here to be strict guardians of your well being and agency craftsmen of the wellness atmosphere in your faculties. Start to insist on the choice, as an alternative of a number of the common chips attempt some candy potation chips. This is how we make this National School Policy actual,” McConney famous.

The Minister mentioned over the past seven years, NCDs contributed to greater than 83 per cent of deaths in Barbados and survey information confirmed 30 per cent of kids between ages 13-15 have been both obese or overweight. (RT)

 



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