Venezuelans among the best nourished people in Latin America

Caracas, Oct 18. ABN.- One out of six people is starving in the world; however, Venezuelans' diet is well above the critically daily level needed for a healthy life of 1,900 kilocalories according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.

Venezuelans consume an average of 2,790 kilocalories per day and undernourishment has been reduced in the country from 21% to 6% in 11 years due to the agrifood and food distribution policies executed by the Government, said the Executive Director of the National Institute of Nutrition (INN) Marilyn Di Luca.

“If policies on agrifood, financing to producers, access to lands and food continue, we can assure that much earlier than 2015 we can achieve another millennium goal: hunger reduction,” said Di Luca in the occasion of the World's Nutrition Day.

Also, Di Luca stated that Venezuela is one of the first countries with a lower nutrition deficit on children, after Cuba, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. She stressed that food achievements are possible thanks t social planning.

“Currently, the Government is carrying out a sowing and supply program in accordance to people's needs. In addition, the Bolivarian curriculum of the Ministry of People's Power for Education is teaching children to eat food produced locally and that link us to our roots. Besides, the comrades of the Mision Cultura in the street link the patterns and socialist values with food and nutrition,” Di Luca pointed out.