期刊
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100397
关键词
Agroforestry; Moringa oleifera COVID-19; Nutrition; Health; Water treatment
资金
- Swedish Research Council (VR/SIDA) Research Links grant [348-2011-7241]
Diseases like Covid-19 present a global challenge, and their prevention and mitigation are closely related to nutrition and water quality. In Africa, where poverty and food shortages are prevalent, finding cost-effective and accessible therapies is crucial for improving health and well-being. Good nutrition and access to clean water are essential for maintaining a strong immune system and fighting infection. Therefore, it is important to prioritize nutritional care and support in efforts to combat the pandemic and address malnutrition.
Diseases such as Covid-19 pose an inescapable challenge to the world. There is an undeniable link between nutrition, water quality, and many diseases. With poverty and recurrent food shortages as an unpleasant fact in Africa, alternative cost-effective, accessible, and affordable therapies can improve health and well-being, and prolong the lives of people especially those with underlying health problems. To lead a healthier life, all people, irrespective of their health condition, need to meet their daily energy, protein, and micronutrient requirements by eating a variety of foods. Maintaining good nutritional status helps to build and support the immune system, allowing the body to fight infection. Clean water is not only needed to provide nourishment, keep the house environment clean, in agriculture and food production, and to take medicines but also for a wide range of other uses such as the prevention and transmission of water-borne diseases (diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A and typhoid) particularly in infants and HIV-positive mothers who cannot breastfeed their babies for fear of infecting them, etc. A massive effort is needed to cushion the impact of the pandemic, and nutritional care and support should be integral elements of any action taken. An evidence-based response is required to alleviate the overall burden of malnutrition and to reduce the severity and complexity of the impact of Covid-19 and malnutrition have on each other. Good nutrition is important in tackling Covid-19. As the sayings go, ''an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and ''prevention is better than cure. The cultivation and utilization of Moringa is being advocated for as a sustainable solution to the above-mentioned challenges. This review is aimed at showing the potential of the Moringa in terms of cultivation, agroforestry, food fortification for tackling malnutrition, disease prevention and provision of safe-drinking water.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据