Under the patronage of the president of the University of Basrah, prof.Dr. Saad Shaheen
Under the supervision of the dean of the College of Arts, Prof. Dr. Majed Abdul Hamid
A workshop, entitled: (healthy food and its safety), was held at the College of Arts and within the program (Healthy Nutrition Project).
Prof. Dr. Nofal Abdel-Amir Hussein gave a lecture entitled: (Proper Healthy Food), in which he touched on the importance of nutrition and food safety and its impact on the health of society, as it is known that nutrition plays an important role in human life. Likewise, food habits and food culture play a more important role in his health and life. The family is primarily responsible for raising the child, introducing him to food habits and food practices, and forming his social attitudes related to food in order to be consistent with the food and social ethics prevailing in society or the food custom, and to reinforce these food habits and develop them in forms of other available social activities in the environment such as school. The child acquires good and bad habits from the home environment and the surrounding environment. If the child grows up in a family that has a sound food culture, then this culture will translate into healthy eating habits, in addition to his acquisition of those habits, and this will have a positive impact on his health, intelligence, and academic achievement.
Food culture is not limited to a healthy person, but also a person suffering from any disease of malnutrition. Each disease needs a special food culture consistent with the type of disease so that the symptoms of these diseases do not worsen. There is a close link between food safety, nutrition and food security. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, the elderly and the sick, as foodborne diseases impede social and economic development by overburdening health care systems and harming national economies, tourism and trade. Given the scientific standing and the pioneering role that the University of Basrah represents in community service, this project comes to constitute a turning point in nutritional and health awareness and a behavioral culture, where the main objective of this project is:
* 1-definition of how to prepare and produce healthy balanced food.
* 2-application of food safety and health conditions.
* 3-Training all employees in restaurants and cafeterias at the University and abroad on the basics of preparing healthy and proper food.
• 4 - Spreading food culture and raising awareness of its benefits and harms through preparing a series of training workshops for all Basra community by identifying healthy and wrong food habits resulting from different food cultures in Basra community and the impact of those habits on health and disease, as well as modifying and improving wrong habits to reach better health.
• 5- Holding scientific educational workshops for members of society, especially for male and female teachers in schools and at the university.
• 6- Holding these workshops in schools and other departments and printing awareness brochures containing several topics that would raise the level of nutritional cultural awareness in the community.
7- Setting up courses to prepare what is called the food educator, in which the participant in this course gets a certificate after passing the course exam, in order to contribute in his role in spreading nutritional awareness, and the University of Basrah carried out a wide educational campaign in this field for members of Basra community, bearing the slogan (food, not medicine). The first workshop concluded that it is necessary to stay away from unhealthy foods and to be moderate in eating food in quantity and quality.
