She spoke of the importance of a multi- sector approach to this issue and raised the importance of alternatives action plans that should be a part of the discourse. [...] He took the audience through the situation Sri Lanka encountered after the 2nd World War; thereafter the issues in 1972, The famine situation and the intervention of USAID. [...] The study assessed the impact of economic crisis on the diet cost (compared to the food diet cost in April 2022 against the diet cost in May 2019) [OKAY]. It also identified the proportion of people who need assistance to access a nutritious diet. [...] She noted that interventions on food and nutrition security are necessary. It is known that people resort to different coping methods, including utilising a part of the non-food expenditure allocation in household budgets to cover the food cost, short-term borrowing, and changing the diet such as reducing the quantity and quality of the diet. [...] As to where we are as a country in this whole nutrition issue – she shed light on the current status of the multi sector action plan, the role of the - national nutrition council. Dr Ratnayake mentioned using the earlier methods should be discontinued, he drew attention to the new WHO guidelines, and the studies done by the physiology department of the University of Colombo, which does a compara.
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