VIVA – Stunting not only when children experience nutritional problems. Prevention stunting must begin by making sure the expectant mother is truly ready to face 1000HPK (First Day of Life).
As is known, the development of health during adolescence greatly determines the quality of a person to become an adult individual. Nutritional problems that occur during adolescence will increase susceptibility to diseases in adulthood, as well as the risk of giving birth to a generation with nutritional problems.
Referring to the 2018 Riskesdas, around 65 percent of adolescents do not eat breakfast, while 97 percent consume less vegetables and fruit, less physical activity and excessive consumption of sugar, salt and fat (GGL).
These bad consumption patterns and habits lead to a high rate of anemia in adolescents, which is 3 out of 10. Anemia in adolescents will cause health problems, such as non-communicable diseases, decreased productivity and achievement, including fertility problems.
Therefore, nutrition education is important, not only for mothers but also adolescents, millennials and prospective parents. This is also in line with UNICEF data in 2017, that there are dietary changes such as an increase in the consumption of unhealthy foods such as instant foods and foods high in GGL.
The impact is, this habit makes prospective mothers do not have sufficient knowledge at the time of becoming mothers. So it is not surprising, until now there are still many toddlers who consume instant food as their daily food intake.
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