Mid-Day Meal Programme and the Role of Nurses In School Nutrition

Mid-Day Meal Programme and the Role of Nurses In School Nutrition

Mid-day meal programme.
Answer.

Midday Meal Programme (MDMP)

MDMP is also called the school lunch programme, with the following principles:

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• The meal should be a supplement and not a substitute for the home diet.
• The meal should supply at least one-third of the total energy requirement and half of the protein used.
• The cost of the meal should be reasonably low.
• Cooking should be easy; no complicated cooking process should be involved.
• As far as possible, locally available foods should be used to reduce their cost.
• The menu should be frequently rotated to avoid monotony

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• • A model menu for a midday school meal
  • Food stuffs gms per day/child
  • Cereals and millets 75gms
  • Pulses 30 gms
  • Oil and fats 8 gms
  • Leafy vegetables 30 gms
  • Non-leafy vegetables 30 gms

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Mid-Day Meal Scheme aims to:

• Avoid the pressurising hunger children face in the classrooms
• Some students don’t come to school because they don’t have a suitable meal. This will increase the enrollment as well
• The attendance levels in many government schools have been seen dropping since past years. This will, therefore, help the school’s maintain a good attendance and also increase literacy.
• It improves socialisation among castes
• Malnutrition is a big problem, and people are still not aware of it. This step provides awareness towards malnutrition and also initiates a healthy meal to avoid it.
• Mid-day meal scheme needs a lot of labour and cooking. So it will employ a lot of women.