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What is nutritional literacy and how to improve children's nutritional literacy?
Nutritional literacy is an individual's ability to obtain, process and understand the basic information of food and nutrition, and use this information to make correct health decisions. Nutrition literacy includes not only nutrition knowledge, but also skills and behaviors related to nutrition. Nutritional literacy requires knowing the source of food, being able to choose and prepare healthy food, and adopting dietary behavior in line with dietary guidelines.

Children's nutritional literacy is very important for their healthy growth and future happiness and health, and children's nutritional health education is as important as or even more important than intellectual education. At present, children's nutritional literacy in China still needs to be improved, and the awareness rate of nutritional knowledge among primary and secondary school students in China is low, especially in poor areas in the west.

School, family, community and the whole social and cultural environment and economic situation will affect children's nutritional literacy. Not only schools should strengthen nutrition and health education, but families should also pay attention to children's nutrition and health and help children develop good eating habits from an early age. Parents play a key role in guiding the formation and establishment of children's eating behavior. Parents should first take the initiative to learn and master nutrition knowledge, change unhealthy eating behaviors, and cultivate children's habits of choosing healthy foods and adopting healthy eating behaviors through words and deeds. Studies have confirmed that parents' healthy eating behavior in front of their children is very helpful for children to develop good eating habits.