On May 20, it was the 33rd "Chinese Student Nutrition Day".
On the same day, under the guidance of the Sports Health and Art Education Department of the Ministry of Education, the National School Food Safety and Nutritional Health Expert Group, Peking University School of Public Health, China Agricultural University Nutrition and Health Research Institute, and China Center for Disease Control and Prevention Nutrition and Health Institute jointly released The "School-age Children's Nutrition Assessment Application" was officially launched.
Ren Fazheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the National School Food Safety and Nutritional Health Expert Group, said at the online release ceremony that nutritional literacy is an important part of health literacy. Information and services to make the right nutritional decisions to maintain and promote one's ability to nutrition and health.
The "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" proposes to carry out health knowledge popularization actions, and by 2030, to achieve a substantial increase in the level of health literacy of the whole people.
Nutrient nutrition is not only an important determinant of health, but also an important indicator to measure national health knowledge and skills.
It is understood that "China's Food and Nutrition Development Outline", "Healthy China "2030" Plan Outline, "National Nutrition Plan (2017-2030)", "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)", "National Health Literacy Promotion Action Plan (2014)" -2020)", the Ministry of Education's "National Healthy School Construction Plan" and many other important national policy documents have proposed to pay attention to nutrition and health throughout the life cycle and improve the level of national nutrition.
Ren Fazheng said that nutrient nutrition has predictive value on dietary behavior and can affect health outcomes; it is also an outcome indicator of nutrition education, providing a basis for formulating health promotion strategies.
The "National Nutrition Assessment Tool" and the first phase of the "School-age Children's Nutrition Assessment Tool" are online application platforms built on the WeChat ecological environment for nutrition workers to carry out nutritional assessment and promotion work. .
In the follow-up, the working expert group will continue to strengthen the construction of the basic database of nutrition nutrition, promote the establishment of a team of teachers with nutrition nutrition, and carry out nutrition science and education in a targeted manner.
Fan Zemin, deputy director of the Department of Sports, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, who attended the ceremony online, said that in order to ensure the food safety and nutritional health of students, the Ministry of Education and relevant departments have successively issued a number of relevant policy documents in recent years to continuously strengthen the management of campus canteens. Continue to promote campus health work, and promote the continuous improvement of the school health education system and health service guarantee level.
As the main design team leader of the "National Nutrition Assessment Tool", Ma Guansheng, a professor at the School of Public Health of Peking University and deputy head of the National School Food Safety and Nutritional Health Expert Group, introduced the development of the tool and its use for different groups of people.
He said that in order to facilitate the use of different groups of people, the tool can formulate different evaluation modes according to different regions, schools, and even classes, and can quickly export the results for further analysis and judgment.
At the same time, you can use this tool to continuously accumulate exclusive nutrient profiles and update them constantly.
Ma Guansheng said that through the development and application of this tool, relevant departments can formulate student nutrition plans, implement student nutrition interventions, carry out targeted student nutrition promotion work, and provide information technology support.
Ding Gangqiang, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and deputy leader of the National School Food Safety and Nutritional Health Expert Group, introduced the overall dietary nutrition and existing problems of school-age children.
In his view, the release of the "School-age Children's Nutrition Assessment Application" will play a positive role in improving the nutritional level of students, and will also promote the continuous and effective development of student nutrition and health work.
Zhang Qian, a researcher at the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and an expert from the National School Food Safety and Nutritional Health Expert Group, said when introducing the current situation of nutrition and nutrition among students in my country that students acquire nutrition and health knowledge mainly from families and schools. It helps to improve students' eating behavior, improve their food structure, and help to improve students' own nutritional and health literacy.
However, in the use of relevant survey tools, there are still problems such as lack of systematic use and previous incompatibility of various tools.
Zhu Wenli, a professor at the School of Public Health of Peking University, introduced the design and production standards of the "Nutrition Assessment Tool for School-aged Children" launched this time, and explained the principles and scenarios of the tool's use.
(Reporter Wang Cheng)