Prof. Dr. Muhammad Suleman Tahir stated that the nation needs to work a lot on nutrition, agriculture, and food.
Speaking at an international conference on food and nutrition that kicked off on Monday at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), speakers stated that four out of ten children under the age of 11 experience problems with malnutrition and undernourishment and that this is the cause of the high ratio of minor deaths in Pakistan.
Prof. Dr. Faqir Muhammad Anjum, a former vice chancellor of Gambia University, stated that the food nutrition system in Pakistan is in a very precarious state and that rural areas are less satisfactory in this regard than urban areas. The worst places, according to him, are Sindh and Balochistan.
He stated that all departments related to food, including standardised foods and the marketing system, urgently needed extensive reforms.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Suleman Tahir stated that the nation needs to work a lot on nutrition, agriculture, and food. Over the past ten years, the nation has experienced an increase in food and nutrition-related issues. The issue of nutrition could be resolved if academics and business professionals collaborated.
A proper and adequate diet is necessary for a healthy immune system and the physical and mental development of children. It is therefore necessary to pay attention to nutrition. Under-nutrition or malnutrition simply means the inadequacy of a healthy diet.
Malnutrition plays a significant role in worldwide childhood deaths. Malnutrition is typically a problem in developing and underdeveloped nations. In Pakistan, 96% of young children do not receive a healthy diet in the form of soft food, milk, fruit, vegetables, etc.
According to estimates, 19% of children under the age of five in the world are wasted and 30% are stunted. An important factor in a nation’s socioeconomic development is the health of its children. One of the nations with a high prevalence of malnutrition problems is Pakistan. According to estimates, malnutrition is to blame for 428 of every 100,000 deaths of children under the age of 5 in Pakistan.