THEME: THE CHANGE I WANT TO MAKE

Can I alone change the school, community, and world? The answer is simply no. But to quote the Helen
Keller quotation, I cannot do everything but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something
that I can do. By getting impressed from this quote I want to create healthy nation by changing the
peoples thought about their eating patterns, and their life styles etc.

Malnutrition (under nutrition and over nutrition) is one of the major problems of the world and is the
first indicator to check the health of the country’s people. According to the WHO data, 1.9 billion adults
throughout the world are overweight and 462 million populations are underweight. So, we need to
focus on this problem and devise the ways so we can eradicate the malnutrition throughout the world.

Daisaku Ikeda said; When we change, the world changes. The key to all changes is in our inner
transformation the changes of our heart and mind. When we changes our lifestyles and eating patterns
everything will change because good nutrition is the most important part of healthy, wealthy life. In
order to to achieve this purpose we need to educate the community. Good nutrition is very important
from the gestation to the child’s second birthday. During this period child’s brain/IQ develop and there
is a big difference between the undernourished and well nourished children’s. Good nutrition prevents
the people from so many diseases and ultimately leads to healthy nation. Children’s and youth are our
future. They will go to contribute to the society in future only in case if they are healthy. Well nourished
children can contribute to the 4% GDP as compared to the undernourished child and well nourished
children’s are more active compared to the undernourished children’s. But how would I bring that
change? Following are some ways by which we can create healthy nation.

First of all, we can educate the children’s about nutrition from the very early classes in school. School
management team can organize healthy and fun activities in which children’s can enjoy and learn.
Nutrition should be the part of course as one subject in which children’s can learn about basic nutrition.
Physical activity is also linked with the nutrition. We can create healthy environment in school by
organizing the outdoor games. In high classes, we can organize the conferences, symposiums,
workshops and different activities which emphasize on how much good nutrition is important to one’s
life.

Moreover, at community level, community nutritionist and dietitians can educate the community by
doing the surveys by giving healthy diet plans and by emphasizing on the physical activity because a
sound mind is in a sound body. Community nutritionist can also give nutrition information to the
mothers so they can focus on their child nutrition.

Why I am writing about this? Because I feel that healthy people have positive attitude toward life and
will engage themselves in activities which will prove effective for their country’s progress. If people will
healthy they will think positively about their country then only they can contribute to the country’s
progress. If they are healthy their brains are fully developed they are well nourished they lead to play
very important part in every field of life and will lead their country to the better place. If people will
active sound and healthy they can earn better for their families and can break the cycle of poverty.
Healthy people lead to healthy, wealthy and prosperous nation that’s why I want to make this change to
my community so that my country will progress by leaps and bounds.
Reference of Quotations: Helen Keller Quotes, Daisaku Ikeda Quotes.