Empowering Health Through Nutrition

The Nutrition Unit is responsible for a number of deliverables for the Department and Ministry of Health. Tasked presently with finalizing the Nutrition Policy, the Unit also is seeking to revise the Food Drum – The Bahamas’ answer to the food pyramid. While engaged with these activities, the Department is relying on the unit to provide the necessary support to the upcoming tripartite conditional cash transfer initiative led by the Ministry of Social Services. The Unit will seek to increase its activity in providing one-on-one sessions with at-risk and overweight children and adults, which also falls within its mandate.