Dr. Nana Achiaa Ankrah, a Pharmacist and an Agrofood Expert has underscored the need for families to serve breakfast as a necessary condition to enhance the immune system, in order to maintain their bodies sin good health.
According to her, breakfast is very significant for aiding healthy living, but it is usually taken for granted by ignoring it, resulting in some form of deficiencies especially in children.
Dr. Nana Achiaa Ankrah, CEO of Arise Foods Limited underpinned that, breakfast is considered as the most important meal of the day, because it prevents some diseases including type ‘2’ diabetes and heart diseases.
She stressed that, consuming a safe and high quality multigrain cereal meal filled with the best nutritional values helps in curbing malnutrition among children.
Eating cereal meals for breakfast should be enriched with nutrients such as iron, calcium, zinc, protein in order to help support overall immune health by contributing to normal growth and development in children.
Explaining breakfast, she said the name (breakfast) depicts the breaking of a night-long fasting period, hence it is important to eat breakfast every morning to facilitate energy levels and boost alertness.
Highlighting on another importance of breakfast, she noted that it helps in academic performance of children who constantly have their breakfast before going to school.
Adding that, studies indicate that children who eat nutritious breakfast perform better by exhibiting academic intelligence than those who do not have breakfast.
Dr. Nana Achiaa Ankrah mentioned that breakfast improves concentration, alertness, comprehension, memory and learning which aims at performing well in school and at work.
She indicated that, breakfast also help pregnant mothers meet nutritional needs for improved well-being throughout the period and afterwards.
“Adding diary products such as milk and yoghurt helps pregnant mothers get the extra nutrition they needed”, she admonished.
Emphasising on the essence of milk and yoghurt to pregnant mothers, she observed that when milk and yoghurt is added to cereal meals like ‘Arise Porridge ‘, it serves as a good source of Iodine essential for healthy foetal development.
Dr. Nana Achiaa Ankrah expressed her commitment that Arise Foods would continually focus on improving nutrition and health status by reducing rates of acute malnutrition in communities with quality productions.
According to her, every family must always have their breakfast in the morning for a healthy living, and is of the view that every child has the right to good health and growth through quality nutrition.
Arise Foods, she explained is a brand introduced by Saliscom with with the primary objective of curbing malnutrition.
It is an agro-food manufacturing business which focuses on producing multi grain cereals with legumes to provide babies, toddlers and everyone including adults with the right nutrition needed for them to grow strong
“Consume Arise Foods to enjoy nutritious multigrain cereal foods made from quality organic grown cereals”, she highlighted.
By: Alfred Ankrah
