Overview:
World Nutrition Day is celebrated annually on October 16 to highlight the millions of people around the world who cannot afford a healthy diet and the need for regular access to nutritious foods.
Objectives:
- Promoting global awareness about those who suffer from hunger and highlight the need to ensure safe, healthy meals for all.
- Highlighting concern and action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne hazards and improve human health.
- Emphasizing the need to transform food systems to deliver better health in a sustainable way to prevent most foodborne illnesses.
Facts:
- Safe food is one of the most important guarantors of good health. Unsafe food is the cause of many diseases and contributes to other poor health conditions, such as poor growth and development, micronutrient deficiencies, non-communicable or communicable diseases, and mental illness.
- Globally, one in ten people contract a foodborne disease each year.
Official date:
Globally: October 16th, 2023
Locally: Rabi’ al-Thani 1st, 1445H