Promoting healthy rice to the Filipino urban youth
2017
Gado-Gonzales, C.L.B. | Manuel, F.G.E.
Poor nutrition remains a major problem in the Philippines with 3.4 million children found to be stunted and over 300,000 underweight. Chronic Malnutrition rate among children in the Philippines is 33.4 percent-data higher than poorer countries. In Vietnam and Cambodia, only 23 and 32.9 percent of children are affected. Thus, the need to promote healthy food consumption to the Filipinos. This study analyzed the drawings and impressions gathered from 24 students, aged 7 to 16, who participated in the education programs facilitated by the Rice Science Museum of Philippine Rice Research Institute. Elementary and high school students in Metro Manila were exposed to a week-long Rice Science and Art Summer Camp. The camp included display and lectures on nutritious rices. The drawings provided perspectives on how the youth's perception about rice were changed after the camp. Before attending activity, the youth are only familiar with the white rice. After brief discussions and exposure trips to laboratories and experimental fields, they learned that there's more to rice than being white. Extracting their artwork revealed three main themes : 'There's more to rice than its white color', 'Ignorance of the colored rice varieties degrades our health', and 'Scientist work hard to breed and produce high-yielding and nutritious rice'. Decoding the drawings further showed the youth's willingness to consume healthy rice and encourage their parents to patronize pigmented and brown rice.
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