It is the responsibility of the adult Filipinos to enable the Filipino adolescents to attain their full potentials in adulthood by empowering them to make nutritionally-correct decisions in their lives.
There are many things and many different ways of enabling and empowering the youth who are supposed to be the future leaders of the land. The nutrition month pledge says it all.
Talk regularly about the importance of proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle to inspire every adolescent to think and take the right way of nutrition and help move the country to peace and progress. Parents must do these things to their children. Keeping the communication lines open, talking to the adolescents as if they are already adults will help them acquire self confidence and develop the spirit of being responsible and answerable to their own selves.
Adult Filipinos must Ensure and maintain their being models of appropriate behavior for health and nutrition of the children. The children imitate what they see from their elders. The best way of teaching the adolescents healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition, is through example. Adults must show the adolescents the way to healthy living and proper nutrition. One, as it is, can not credibly teach what he or she does not practice.
Adults must Encourage families, schools and communities to engage in productive activities aligned with the promotion of good nutrition. They must Network with health, nutrition and allied workers to be abreast of the developments in nutrition and health.
Finally, adults must Stimulate and steer into action children and adolescents for them to share in their own way, in the task of nation-building for a better and brighter future.
This may be done by sowing in their young hearts and minds that whatever they will become in the future will depend on the lifestyle and nutrition-habits they develop while they are still young. Healthy lifestyle, after all, is the way to a healthy and productive future.
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