Promote healthy eating at schools

The time has come for faith-based bodies, school boards, and PTAs to become more involved in promoting healthy eating through specific programmes in their communities and schools.

Moreover, even though at school students are taught about healthy and unhealthy foods, in many cases the cafeterias offer a variety of unhealthy items including sugary drinks and fried foods.

I hope that in the New Year there will be initiatives to promote healthy eating at schools, and that cafeterias will provide students with items in keeping with good nutritional standards.

Perhaps the Ministries of Education and Health can collaborate meaningfully in this regard and encourage and assist schools to adopt healthy lifestyle initiatives including health promotion and nutrition programmes at PTA meetings.

Ian Green Couva