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Start them young: The habit of eating healthy needs to be inculcated from a young age, and this can be done by expanding school meal programmes like the Supplementary Food Programme to include fruits and vegetables. — Agencies
“I only buy fruits when they are on sale or when sold in bulk at the pasar malam or wholesale market. You can also find good bargains at the pasar tani and pasar pagi when the fruits are in season, but I can’t go too often as I have no transport if my husband is working,” she says. The prices of vegetables and fruits especially seem to fluctuate due to supply issues caused by the volatile weather and geopolitical tensions.
In the same period, DOSM found the CPI for vegetables spiked 3.2%, with different types of onions and red spinach recording the highest increase. “Besides, other food options, which are often high in sugar and fat, are usually cheap, delicious, and provide satiety,” Ng says. It may not seem like an unhealthy diet is the most pressing health issue in the country, but Ng says if this persists, it could result in a sicker population at large which will subsequently lead to lower productivity and inhibited economic growth.
Farmers should be incentivised to plant more fruits and vegetables, rather than focusing most of the country’s arable land on commodities, says Indrani. — AgenciesIn a United Nations-backed study released in early May, shortly before the NHMS results were released, it was revealed that many B40 families are forced to cut back on food spending due to rising prices in the post-pandemic era, with some children eating fewer than three meals a day.
It found that 62% of heads of households cited high prices of raw ingredients as their main challenge in preparing a nutritious meal. One of their interviewees, who wished to be known as Ms M, a 35-year-old kuih seller who is a widow with a small child with disability, said looking at the price of rice now makes her “want to cry”.
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