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Celebrations of Nutrition Week

Chandigarh, 8th September, 2016: 300 numbers of patients/relatives visited the exhibition with prepared recipes displayed by Department of Dietetics Govt Multi Speciality Hospital Sector 16 on 7 September 2016 during “Nutrition Week”   with national theme “Life Style Approach for Better Nutrition”.
    The Medical faculty and the patients were made aware about the usage of healthy ingredients like having energy dense and nutrition for preparation of delicious and healthy tiffins so that children can be boosted in their day to day consumption during the school hours as an alternative and to curb the consumption of Junk food.
  A play was staged by the students of Dietetics department under the caption “Ek din Kitchen Mein” which was based on the hand washing techniques by adopting seven steps to educate the paramedical staff and the patients for maintaining the hygiene in preparation of meals in the kitchen.
          A “Nutrition Quiz” was held for the awareness and education of the pregnant/lactating mothers about usefulness of exclusive breast milk till six months and inclusion of complementary foods after six months by way of simple question answer session followed by gifts.

The Nutrition week was concluded by felicitating  Dr. Vanita Gupta Director Health Services and other senior officers/ Doctors of the health facility by Senior Dietician Manisha Arora. 

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