Eat Healthy Be Active Tiny Tots Told

Bandar Seri Begawan - Practicing a healthy diet should begin as early as childhood from home, kindergarten students were told yesterday.

Making a habit out of consuming healthy food among children is compulsory since it helps them to grow healthy and be active.

Officers from the Dietetic Unit, Ministry of Health elaborated this in a talk to about 80 pupils of the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah foundation's kindergarten in Jalan Kebangsaan yesterday.

The children were also shown a demonstration on how to prepare a healthy and balanced meal.

The school health medical officer, Dayang Hajah Masni, led the ministry's group.

This is one of the unit's on-going activities in disseminating information and knowledge to the young on the importance of taking a healthy and balanced diet.

It is also aimed at familiarising them with good food at the early stage so that they could be aware of the kind of food, which was best for them. The talk and the demo also included an aerobic exercise session. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei

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