Replace tea and coffee with clean drinking water, uninvited fruit and vegetables during official inspection meetings and educational programs. Sweets, biscuits and fried snacks should be completely avoided, along with biryani, fried rice, ghi rice and parotte. Fruits, either cut or full, are better than “Payasam” or ice cream as desserts.
These are instructions issued recently by a district medical officer (DMO), Kozhikode, for primary health centers and community health centers and other institutions within the Ministry in the fight against lifestyles caused mainly by food habits. Come against the background of the World Day Heart, which was observed 29. September.
The instructions indicate that self -help groups or kudumbashree units can be reached to provide fruits and vegetables. Unsated grounds, cashew nuts, ash seeds, pistachios, data and almond nuts can be administered in limited quantities together with tea. Other options are boiled eggs or steamed delicacies. If meat or fish are served together with rice, they should not be fried in oil.
DMO says the cake should not be distributed to birthday party celebrations. Other sweets should be avoided. The boards should be installed in the work departments and excrete the sweets distribution after supplies. Fruit or data can replace them. However, a cake can be used during New Year’s celebrations from 20 to 10 December. In children’s wards, the cake can be distributed up to six times. “Prasadam” from the temples can be given no more than two tablespoons.
Local authorities and other government departments may be convinced to take similar steps. Employees in hostels should ensure that uncooked fruits and vegetables are included in the offer. DMO says that oil and sugar should avoid as much as possible, along with smoking and alcohol consumption. Employees should also spend at least 20 minutes a day to physical exercise, he says.
Published – 4 October 2025 17:59
